Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucky Langdon , who is not normally a cautious person , believes this is unlikely , given the current opinion poll rating , and that the best bet wold be the Conservatives winning the most seats , but without an overall majority — thus returning them to power as a minority government . |
| 2 | Why not do as he says , and let him send you to Nicosia as an envoy ? ’ |
| 3 | Maybe she 'll give it to Shavina as a wedding present . |
| 4 | ‘ the way in which particular localities must engage in a bitter and divisive struggle to sell themselves to capitals as the most desirable location for their activities in an attempt to defend the right to live , learn and work in their place . ’ |
| 5 | She had invited them to lunch as a silent farewell . |
| 6 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 7 | The mortgage company had acted with forbearance , only taking them to court as a last resort . |
| 8 | It is simply what presents itself to Moose as the truth when he reflects as carefully as he can , and what he therefore expects to present itself likewise to others . |
| 9 | He was educated by a private tutor in France and Germany , and in 1862–4 worked in the London office of the builder Sir Samuel Morton Peto [ q.v. ] , who then sent him to Russia as an assistant engineer on railway works . |
| 10 | Heath sold it to Home as a symbol to the country that , after twelve years in office , the Conservatives were still capable of radical action . |
| 11 | I think he gave it to Lepkin as a bribe . ’ |
| 12 | In fact , the idea lends itself to fabrication as a single IC- clock distribution is not much of a problem , because of the insensitivity to DC level , and transistor count is low , because each of the switches is formed by a single igfet , rather than , for instance , several mesfets . |
| 13 | There was thus some political pressure from Conservative Ministers to ensure that Boards allocated overheads to their contracting activities properly and secured an economic profit , but the contractors ' association director was so politically inept in following this up that Citrine had no difficulty in exposing him to Whitehall as a biased anti-nationaliser who was unwilling to accept a reasonable accommodation . |
| 14 | Cadfael went to meet him , and the porter , who had heard the stir of arrival and come out into the doorway of his lodge , halted on the threshold , and left it to Cadfael as an elder of the house to take charge of the returned prisoner . |