Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] own [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That acquisition could have scuppered the whole effort , given AT&T 's long-standing efforts to establish its own Tuxedo as the de-facto standard for Unix TP . |
| 2 | Scientists used their own society as the model from which they formulated their ideas , which in turn justified the position of women as they found it . |
| 3 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 4 | I used his own tie as a tourniquet . |
| 5 | Whereas Pope 's Belinda might worship her own image as an idol , Dorinda can now only grieve before the mirror : |
| 6 | Inside McAllister , who was enjoying her own performance as a clumsy hoyden , a wicked devil was laughing itself stupid , until she felt strong hands under her armpits and Dr Neil hoisted her clear of her victim . |
| 7 | We can infer from this that when the authors concerned start out to describe the institutions of an alien exotic social system they are using their own society as a model of normality . |
| 8 | It then glues these thin twigs to a wall using its own saliva as a fixative . |
| 9 | I hope the work will be interesting , I was a bit disappointed not to have the chance to tackle my own book as the main editor at last but of course one does n't want to rock the boat too much — there are too many people who 'd happily fill my shoes . |
| 10 | Malekith returns to Ulthuan and denounces his own mother as a Slaanesh worshipper . |
| 11 | Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it ! |
| 12 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 13 | As this is often linked up with annuities , endowment policies and private pension plans , several of the major life assurance companies , such as the Legal and General Assurance Society ( address on page 155 ) run their own courses as a service for their prospective pensioners , for groups of employees of large companies , or for individuals from smaller companies . |
| 14 | He also strongly reaffirmed his own position as a " loyal and disciplined member of the ANC " , in full agreement with the movement 's " objectives , strategies and tactics " . |
| 15 | You went on to discuss your own role as a ‘ sweeper ’ ( which I gather from my sons is roughly what I was brought up to call a half-back ) . |
| 16 | And now at last I feel that I am emerging from the defilements , I have reached my own self as a swimmer reaches the shore . |
| 17 | This allows the company to use its own assets as the security for credit but retain the ability to deal with those assets itself as it wishes until such time as the creditor takes steps to enforce his security . |
| 18 | He petitioned Leopold Il for the post of vice-kapellmeister , emphasizing his own track-record as a composer of sacred music ( a field in which Salieri , who had been appointed kapellmeister in 1788 , was not particularly proficient ) , but received no response . |
| 19 | By giving identity the Profitboss creates his own identity as a leader with a clear profit-mission who has the total support of his team . |
| 20 | You will thus benefit from being able to use your own behaviour as a powerful influence . |
| 21 | Of course , this way of looking at things reflects my own bias as an only partially reconstructed neurochemist ; in practice the neurophysiology may well lead — indeed , in the important cases of Aplysia and long-term potentiation discussed next , has led — the biochemistry and cell biology , pointing the way towards cells whose electrical properties and therefore their biochemical properties change during memory formation . |
| 22 | I have tried to show how such an approach is necessary if language teaching is to draw maximal benefits from developments in the informing disciplines while retaining its own identity as a domain of enquiry which has to meet its own conditions of relevance and accountability . |
| 23 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 24 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 25 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 26 | To watch such animals biting their own bodies as a way of providing novel stimulation is to see just how inadequate even the most modern zoos are for this type of species . |
| 27 | The World Bank has subsequently identified this as a major weakness in the design of projects , but has not acknowledged its own role as the prime engineer of the approach . |
| 28 | At times John felt like taking his own life as a kind of token repayment for the life of his friend . |
| 29 | Indeed , Hitler represented his own life as a prototypical moral career of the little man . |
| 30 | Try comparing your own experiences as a child with your attitudes towards bringing up children as you express them today . |