Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of . |
| 2 | It seems that we now have serial correlation in our model as a result of including the dummy right , now we 've got to test statistic , I mean always look at the F version of the test , right , er our F statistic of three point seven six is significantly different from zero , right , that leaves seven percent level , so a five percent test we probably accept that we did n't have any serial correlations and we just got there by the skin of our teeth on that particular test erm yes , you could probably get away with this one , functional forms fine , no problem there , hetero skilasticity right , are F statistic three point nine but significantly different from zero that 's six percent level , right , so again we just scrape it if we were looking at the ninety five percent confidence it wants to be five percent if you are using as five percent significance level . |
| 3 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 4 | But unions are for representing people properly , responsibly , not for using as some vehicle for your own political obsessions . |
| 5 | A common-sense assumption , so obvious as not to need labelling as such . |
| 6 | They are not binding as authoritative directives , though the circumstances of the case may require giving them some weight if , for example , others innocently have relied on them . |
| 7 | The example illustrates the legal obstacles to parties to a treaty characterising as international waterways , areas that are not under their exclusive jurisdiction and control , rather than just making contractual commitments with respect to them . |
| 8 | Now when this is all over , and Saddam has got to be stopped , forcibly stopped , when this is over , I believe that there 's got to be no reneging as this country has constantly done with the Arabs ; there has got to be a Middle East conference , and the Israelis said ‘ yes , we agree to your State , but return to your original frontiers or you will get the same treatment as Saddam has got . ’ |
| 9 | The high-rise hype blew up in our faces , with the demolition of tower blocks in London and Merseyside appearing as slow-motion spectaculars on television , hundreds of homes up for less than a lifetime now squandered . |
| 10 | He rapidly became one of the prince 's closest friends , accompanying him on his crusade of 1270–2 and appearing as one of his executors in the will which Edward made at Acre in June 1272 . |
| 11 | For example , we saw in Fig. 15.9 how injection of very small quantities of acid and alkali produced regions of different colours ( appearing as different brightnesses in a black-and-white picture ) thus showing the main features of the flow pattern . |
| 12 | However , I suspect that Mains rather got some enjoyment out of appearing as some grim nemesis of the south . |
| 13 | The legendary fox spirits of Japanese superstition , they can either assume human form or enter the living body of a man or woman , most often appearing as beautiful women in long white gowns . |
| 14 | This has the advantage that the surplus energy , appearing as kinetic energy of the electrons , can be measured by electrostatic analysis of the electron velocities . |
| 15 | Jazz , which has been dogged by crippling financial troubles , takeover battles and continual re-formatting , appears to be finally making headway after launching as one of London 's first incremental stations into the recession . |
| 16 | Where a customer is operating under a trading name you need to know who owns the name and who is trading as that name . |
| 17 | In November 1989 , a joint venture with Malayan Breweries Ltd Singapore ( coinciding with the Malaysian merger ) formed GAPL Pte Ltd Singapore , trading as United Stout Marketing . |
| 18 | flitting from chintz to chintz , constantly huddling with grand ladies consulting on matters of curtains and crackle-glazing , and returning as spare men at their dinner parties , are splendid purveyors of chatter . |
| 19 | ‘ If we think back to what I said earlier , perhaps understanding as such would be disabling rather than helpful . |
| 20 | But it told research ministers ( who were still meeting as New Scientist went to press on Tuesday ) that ‘ it is essential to take an immediate final decision on the future of the programme . ’ |
| 21 | It represented a synthesis of certain ideas , expressing as uncritical positivism which amalgamated certain propositions from anthropology , biology , psychology and sociology , which was presented as an hierarchy of race . |
| 22 | We made it clear that the list of authors was not intended to be comprehensive : ‘ We stress again that we are not recommending as set texts the books of the authors listed … |
| 23 | Second , even if nuclear families do inhabit separate houses , they may be part of a joint family : ‘ A joint family may consist of several branches living as separate households in different residences but pooling their incomes , all the major decisions relating to finance , ceremony performances and marriages , etc. being taken jointly ’ ( Anwar , 1979 , p. 55 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I rent a room in the house of our foreman , living as one of the family , which was a stroke of luck ; a boarding-house would cost more . |
| 25 | In the last three issues , we have looked at producing textured fabric on our machines and this time we will be continuing along these lines , but looking as double bed tuck stitch formation in particular . |
| 26 | The weakening of family ties during the war — through death , evacuation , and executions — led to many youngsters becoming accustomed to wandering as regimental camp-followers in Tsarist , White , Red , or guerrilla bands . |
| 27 | But Olson nevertheless slides from these precise comments into grander generalisation and appears to attribute the characteristics associated with specific exponents of the essay technique to writing as such and to the whole culture . |
| 28 | A high proportion of diplomats everywhere still began their careers , until well into the second half of the nineteenth century , by serving as unpaid attachés ; and it was not unusual for the head of a mission to ask for a son or a nephew to be assigned to it in this capacity . |
| 29 | When we go into schools where computers are actually in use , we find them serving as expensive page turners , mimicking programmed instruction texts . |
| 30 | Prominent in artist-ministry public relations was the etcher Muirhead Bone , who was also the first British War Artist , serving as such in both World Wars . |