Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should you wish to continue using your mare as a broodmare , you may be advised to put her in foal every year because some believe that this actually makes it easier for a mare to conceive . |
| 2 | That in itself may sound daunting , but on its centennial in 1993 the museum would prefer to see its situation as an asset . |
| 3 | It may help to see how the need for process studies was perceived to exist and then to proceed to indicate in which branches studies were undertaken using what methods as a basis for assessing how our knowledge has increased in spatial terms and in time with reference to catastrophic views . |
| 4 | He carried a bottle of water from the River Mississippi with which , he said , he planned to baptise my breast as a sign of love . |
| 5 | His narrative reveals Geertz ( almost ) capable of being a player himself , helping to establish his credibility as a knowing ‘ reader ’ of cockfighting and supporting his claims for the activity 's wider anthropological significance . |
| 6 | It is for this reason , following on from Freud and Szasz , that I propose to treat my patient as a text . |
| 7 | In higher education an estimated 400,000 students were expected to lose their grants as a result of a proposal to target the federal student grant fund of $5,800 million , a rise of 7 per cent , at students from families with incomes lower than $10,000 . |
| 8 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 9 | Polypropylene has earned its place as a large volume high growth polymer [ 11 per cent per annum compound for the past give years ] because of its attractive balance of properties , its ability to be processed by a wide variety of techniques , and its competitive economics and cost effectiveness . |
| 10 | As to judicial lawmaking , the practice of prospective overruling has attracted my attention as a hard case for those theories of judicial process which involve a strong commitment to coherence , consistency and institutional fit . |
| 11 | The relative complexity of gastric crypt anatomy compared with colorectal mucosa has discouraged its use as an experimental model in proliferation research . |
| 12 | Often they take casual jobs , and William Gaminara has turned his experience as an out-of-work thesp into a sparky new play at the Hampstead Theatre . |
| 13 | He wears jeans , sneakers and leather bomber jackets and talks in teenage jargon , but — at the age of 65 — Fluff has decided his time as a pop picker is up . |
| 14 | Though it has made its name as a mainframe software house , Compuware is keen to broaden its horizons . |
| 15 | Ian St James , who organizes and finances the awards , has made his fortune as a best-selling author . |
| 16 | On a less sombre note , Philip — Pat 's better half and General Factotum , has made his mark as an Archer — of the bow and arrow type — not the Radio soap opera . |
| 17 | And Alan Shearer , who has shown his versatility as a striker by scoring several of his 16 goals for Blackburn from distance , ought to try and do the same for England . |
| 18 | Maybe soap has had its day as a place where those more progressive arguments are being investigated . |
| 19 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 20 | Here is the kind of letter you will write for a reference : re Mr John Smith The above is proposing to take a lease of certain residential premises at an annual rent of £ and maintenance charges at present £ , and he has supplied your name as a reference . |
| 21 | Peter Lilley as a right winger has to combine his reputation as a zealous cutter of the state sector with a departmental budget that eats up to forty percent of the hole , one MP groans , rather inconsequentially , a weeks social security payments would buy a warship , even Kenneth Clark and Michael Portillo , sharpening their axes have to admit that Lilley did not exactly invent unemployment personally , but the burgeoning budget for invalidity benefit , together with much anecdotal evidence , suggest that somebody in Whitehall , well before his time , decided to cut the unemployment figures artificially by allowing , even encouraging people with little hope of jobs to remember that troublesome pain in their backs , and in the process get better benefits . |
| 22 | He was permitted to exert his authority as a member of the ruling class over his inferiors at any time and in any situation . |
| 23 | Oily major-cable snake Rob Lowe attempts to lure Wayne and Garth on to his network , all the while conspiring with a venal video-arcade owner who really wants to use their show as a Trojan horse into adolescent spending power . |
| 24 | The Welsh lad 's got this steady gaze on me like he wants to use my head as a rugby ball . |
| 25 | So-called ‘ personal ’ doors , positioned in the side or back wall of the garage , are useful if you want to use your garage as a workshop or utility room , and are essential if your garage blocks access to the side of the house . |
| 26 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 27 | This was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , er a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , plan our life out and try and lie up to his standards , he says I have come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost . |
| 28 | The Dales authority has defended its plans as an extension to public subsidies to landowners for the preservation of the countryside . |
| 29 | Someone who has grabbed your wrist as an unfunny joke only deserves , if reason fails , a sharp slap round the face . |
| 30 | A teacher with considerable experience and further training , who has demonstrated his abilities as a design consultant for both curricula and materials . |