Example sentences of "as [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its pictures as well as text contributed by a team of experts , it portrays a colourful decade in which hope was more rekindled than lost . |
| 2 | A Squig Hunter Mob must contain at least five models ( a Squig Hunter team counts as two ) and may include Cave Squigs as well as Hunters armed with long prodders . |
| 3 | As Vogue stated in a 1920 cruise report , ‘ The Master-At-Arms ' stern duty is to drive late lovers out of the lifeboats . ’ |
| 4 | What is special here is the relaxed way they are grown , not just as climbers trained up fences and trellis , but also as scramblers , making their way enthusiastically over shrubs and tumbling over heathers to provide an added season of interest . |
| 5 | Pauline Paul was confined to a wheelchair as calcium drained from her bones . |
| 6 | I was oblivious to it all , but I do n't know how we managed , as agriculture suffered along with every other industry . |
| 7 | But as agriculture modernised , machines took over and jobs died off . |
| 8 | Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond . |
| 9 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 10 | payments of capital do not attract inheritance tax liability , except in so far as income earned by the fund has not been paid out . |
| 11 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 12 | 9.1 The Publisher may present copies of the Work to the Libraries entitled to the Privilege and shall be entitled at its discretion to present copies of every edition of the Work to the Delegates of the Oxford University Press and their Secretary and the Chancellor of the University editors of periodicals teachers and other persons through whom in its judgement publicity for the Work will be gained and shall retain the copies needed as samples by their showrooms and travellers throughout the world and all such presentation copies shall not be taken into account as copies sold . |
| 13 | Despite the unpromising post-war British economic scene , births sharply increased from 1946 to 1948 as servicemen returned home . |
| 14 | Its civil jurisdiction was encroached upon , as contracts made and wrongs done abroad or at sea were brought within the jurisdiction of the ordinary courts by fictions , such as the pretence that such towns as Bordeaux were within the area of , say , Cheapside , so that many international commercial transactions were considered to be purely municipal . |
| 15 | The exceptional quality of the participants certainly enabled the curriculum workers ( or most of them anyway ) to adapt to their environment as programmes developed — but their heredity kept showing through . |
| 16 | Thus , the marked increase in tumours of the cardia may relate to past smoking habits , and may represent a cohort phenomenon as smoking increased between 1915 and 1950 . |
| 17 | They were commonly shown as half-figures carved in relief within a frame . |
| 18 | Perhaps a little less improbable , and certainly a possibility , is that a change in the savings products offered by other intermediaries could cause an increase in the early termination , or ‘ surrender ’ , of policies as savers switched to the other products . |
| 19 | In particular they have been seen as a system of colonization , and as institutions designed to ensure the military dominance of Israel over the indigenous Palestinian population . |
| 20 | Her status as sister magnified her authority and the disparity between her limited abilities and her responsibilities , as , among other tasks , inspector of schools . |
| 21 | The match started and the men watched intently as play moved from one end of the field to the other . |
| 22 | Tempers in the kitchens rose with the temperature as ovens burned and broth smiled on . |
| 23 | Babies were given this amazing food so some children grew up as giants compared with other children their age . |
| 24 | He had a parcel under his arm , and much as Mum pleaded with him he would n't stay . |
| 25 | Like other graphics , fonts can be described in a high level manner , or as bit mapped images . |
| 26 | Then they turned out the lights , the great brass chandelier with its false candles , and the moon 's lemony radiance lay as still as cloths draped over the shining wood . |
| 27 | However , little by little , as Aspreys sold more and more of his artefacts , so Ernest bought up more and more land along the cliff and through the village . |
| 28 | As well as illustrations clipped from duplicate journals and books , the collection contains large numbers of original artworks , which are unlisted and unidentified . |
| 29 | I have no doubt that those same consumers , when exercising their choice about what to buy , will want to be absolutely sure that products imported to the United Kingdom have had to undergo precisely the same levels of checks and monitoring as products exported from the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | Sometimes he pulled out a hanky , as tar stained as his teeth , and trumpeted loudly into it . |