Example sentences of "[verb] as its " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their articles in this volume Ali Rattansi and Paul Gilroy have argued the case for new strategies in antiracist education that avoid what the Burnage Report criticized as its ‘ moral , symbolic and doctrinaire ’ forms . |
| 2 | In the race this is the original social and psychological trauma which makes civilized society possible and which produces as its embodiment totemic religion . |
| 3 | The Council was not content with the system , and was working to improving the partnership — in a dialogue with partners that the Council needed to continue as its ‘ most urgent agendum ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Mladenov , the youngest member of the politburo at 53 and regarded as its most liberal figure , takes over as General Secretary . |
| 5 | Drawings of it are given in his Codex Atlanticus of about 1495 , but Leonardo can no longer be regarded as its inventor . |
| 6 | As we have seen , during the years from about 1080 to 1095 , Anselm had given much thought to the problem of liberty , and had reached a definition of free will which left no room for that freedom of choice which is commonly regarded as its essential feature . |
| 7 | These Dionysiac elements within Greek mythology must be regarded as its earliest stratum , [ pre-Hellenic in origin ( second millennium B.C. ) ; ] while the Olympian mythological apparatus , along with the world of art that depicts it , is a later development . |
| 8 | In so far as the action of tragedy is originally a vision , seen only by the chorus , the chorus may , in a special sense , be regarded as its " ideal spectator " . |
| 9 | It therefore seemed that the area of the event horizon of a black hole could not be regarded as its entropy . |
| 10 | Despite the changing character of our landscape , developments often appear to threaten what are regarded as its traditional features . |
| 11 | Last week , the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge ( SPCK ) dropped plans to bring out the book after Dr Carey hinted that he would resign as its president if publication went ahead . |
| 12 | To take again the above example , the proposition " Some living creatures are men " carries an existential commitment , and the validity of any inference that might act as its replacement , evidently , will depend on the assumption that the respective classes of objects are non-empty . |
| 13 | And to what extent will top management have to accept as its top priority making and maintaining a common vision across professional specialties ? |
| 14 | This same year Munnings made his controversial attack on modern art at the Royal Academy dinner and afterwards resigned as its President . |
| 15 | A suicide pact exists where two or more people , each having a settled intention of dying , reach an agreement which has as its object the death of both or all . |
| 16 | Similarly , in La neige etait sale ( The Stain on the Snow ) which is set in an occupied country , has as its hero Frank Friedmaier — a thug who kills for fun and arranges the rape of a young woman who loves him . |
| 17 | The second phase , a three year Community Education Project , is similarly funded and has as its prime aims : |
| 18 | It would appear that for Gandhi prayer is a form of meditation , which has as its aim self-purification and knowledge of the Truth . |
| 19 | The socialisation of the nation has as its natural corollary the nationalisation of socialism … . |
| 20 | The aggregation hierarchy has as its root a highly abstract object node which has some similarity to a node in hyper-text terminology comprising a chunk of data for presentation to the user . |
| 21 | On Pebble Island , a great bay called Elephant Bay has as its border a sandy beach no less than seven kilometres in length . |
| 22 | Thanet wing , however , has as its primary purpose to keep its inmates from physical harm ; the good work that is undoubtedly done there with individuals is almost a bonus . |
| 23 | As such , community economic development is a form of community action which has as its basis the community 's own perception of its needs and the formulation of its own collective response to these needs . |
| 24 | Its investigatory function has as its object the ascertainment of the facts and the determination of the truth . |
| 25 | Such a picture is of necessity tragic , and this " tragic " dialectical interaction between the objective social forces crushing men and women in their everyday lives , and the dynamic subjective response of those same men and women refusing to be crushed , has as its counterpart a " tragic " dialectical interaction between revolutionary writer and oppressed reading public . |
| 26 | It is indicative of the pressure to conform to gender-coded standards that The Dear Deceit , the most serious and most personal of her first four novels , has as its protagonist a lone male suffering from an identity crisis over his patronym . |
| 27 | The neighbouring county of Gwynedd has as its establishment of higher education , Bangor Normal College ; a largely monotechnic institution under the North Wales Counties Joint Education Committee offering teacher-training courses , it is giving increasing emphasis to teaching through the medium of Welsh . |
| 28 | As such it needs to make use of concepts which define the political sphere , the nature of political relations and institutions , the state , government , law , etc. ; and it generally has as its point of departure a broader scheme of thought about human nature and society . |
| 29 | Second , there will be a border area where the two interpretations merge , in the sense that certain particular values for adjective and noun meanings , when joined in an attributive combination , will under either interpretation always correspond to identical external situations ; hence even highly sophisticated investigators might be hard put to it to tell whether a given adjective is simply applicable to X or has as its value having the property of being-related-to-X . |
| 30 | The ego is , as we have seen , principally the executive agency of the personality and has as its most characteristic attribute control of voluntary movement . |