Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 However , my GCSE courses eventually led me to attend university as a mature student and now I hope to become a solicitor .
2 Everything in Anselm 's life during the past thirty years had predisposed him to regard obedience as a fundamental rule of conduct for himself and others .
3 She paid for my mother to take French lessons and helped her find work as a seamstress with various drapers in the city .
4 Lilford ( 1989 ) sees the ability of the home authority to choose who receives treatment as a major benefit to be gained from the system , stating that ‘ some patients will still go without treatment , but commissioning agents will help patients with the greatest need or best prognosis .
5 Let us consider watercress as a typical example of how easy it is to be deceived .
6 Let us take vision as an example .
7 Let us take gambling as an example .
8 Let us take finance as an example .
9 Let us take crickets as an example .
10 Our informants had a well-articulated theory of the relation between ‘ work-in-school ’ and success in a life career that allowed them to see work-in-school as the first rung of their adult moral careers .
11 In this and the next two chapters I develop , largely through case study material , a framework that can be used which employs place as a central concept in geographical analysis .
12 His appeal to the concept of a super-organism allowed him to present ecology as a science that would show us how to manage the natural productivity of an entire region .
13 As to complicating life — I suspect he sees complication as a masculine domain — for us women would n't want to worry ‘ our pretty little heads ’ over ‘ complicated ’ matters .
14 I am convinced that it was only our privatisation proposals which allowed us to bring gas as a real possibility — now a probability , and almost certainly a certainty — to Northern Ireland .
15 If somebody 's had a lifetime of doing tapestries or needlework or sewing , then encourage them to do needlework as an individual .
16 Okay so now suppose you have Florence as the first noun in T three and herself no do it the other way round , suppose you had herself as the first noun and T three Florence okay then you 'd find Florence does C command herself but it should n't
17 Her story seems to hail from an ancient feudal past but , incredibly , Sattareh Farman Farmaian is alive and more than spry enough to recall her spellbinding adventures as a Daughter of Persia ( Bantam £16.99 ) .
18 This led him to reject Marxism as a one-sided sociology , unable to deal adequately with the full complexity of society and social change .
19 The teenager was asked to look around the court and he said he thought he recognised Sutherland as the man .
20 Olympic boost : A leading Sydney official today admitted he rated Manchester as an increasingly serious rival for the right to stage the 2000 Olympic Games .
21 She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’
22 Do we see appraisal as a process which in itself will lead to ‘ improvement ’ ( the control model ) , or as something which really only makes sense in the context of a fully developed staff development process ?
23 How far do they see publicity as an instrument of power ?
24 Why did he use pleasure as a weapon ? ’
25 I have to say I like Giles as a commentator and a punid .
26 She was dimly aware of someone — or something ? — brushing the wet tears from her face , of hard yet comforting arms enfolding her trembling body as a low deep voice murmured soothing words of comfort .
27 Mr Lawson 's words might have reassured the financial markets had he carried conviction as a man in complete charge of short-term economic policy ; instead he sounded faintly ridiculous .
28 On what grounds , therefore , does he identify Bonapartism as a pertinent effect ?
29 There is an absence of any clear research evidence which enables us to distinguish age as an independent factor affecting the performance of non-traditional students .
30 It is too early to make a firm judgement , but have you investigated Siporax as a filter medium ?
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