Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [unc] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely one does not spend one 's life as a biblical scholar reinterpreting the tradition because that is all that can be done in view of the fact that , like it or not , we live within this trajectory ? |
| 2 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 3 | WHY does the Press describe breaking one 's word as a U-turn ? |
| 4 | Should the reason for refusing to do one 's duty as a soldier be loss of belief in the efficacy of war then that could well be interpreted as a choice of ahi sā . |
| 5 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 6 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 7 | If parents have managed to instil in their child a sense of his own worth as an individual , then , whatever knocks that child may encounter as an adult , he will have the inner confidence which will enable him to pull through and make a success of his life — success in this context having nothing to do with money but with achieving one 's aims as an individual , whatever they may be . |
| 8 | ‘ It is important to keep to commitments , always try one 's best , and take one 's responsibilities as an athlete seriously . ’ |
| 9 | to take one 's diploma as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons ( from Surgeon 's Hall ) and of the College of Physicians respectively . |