Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] its [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That in itself may sound daunting , but on its centennial in 1993 the museum would prefer to see its situation as an asset . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The relative complexity of gastric crypt anatomy compared with colorectal mucosa has discouraged its use as an experimental model in proliferation research . |
| 4 | Though it has made its name as a mainframe software house , Compuware is keen to broaden its horizons . |
| 5 | Maybe soap has had its day as a place where those more progressive arguments are being investigated . |
| 6 | The Dales authority has defended its plans as an extension to public subsidies to landowners for the preservation of the countryside . |
| 7 | It opened with his favourite theme : ‘ During the past ten years the system of standing Cabinet Committees has proved its value as a means of relieving the Cabinet of a great weight of less important business . ’ |
| 8 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 9 | By broadening our view of quality from the early days , we 've come to realise its importance as the framework for everything we do . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ By broadening our view of quality from the early days , we 've come to realise its importance as the framework for everything we do . ’ |
| 11 | With production costs of £1.55p per barrel of oil equivalent , SNH has consolidated its position as a leading gas producer in the Southern Basin , according to the latest McKinsey report . |
| 12 | In the way in which , down the years , it has kept its responsibilities as a cultural centre sensibly in step with its growing commercial importance and prosperity , it is something of a model . |
| 13 | The colonised body which Kahlo clothed in revolutionary idealism has lost its function as a symbol of nationhood becoming instead an icon of female suffering . |
| 14 | A potato variety which can survive Britain 's increasingly dry weather better than most has lost its status as a priority crop for farmers because the supermarkets have turned against it . |
| 15 | The programme will have succeeded if , in 15 years ' time , primary health care in the capital has lost its status as the national laggard ; the quality of the services it offers matches or exceeds that enjoyed in the rest of England ; and London has become a place where aspiring primary health care practitioners in all disciplines aim to work . |
| 16 | MORGAN Grenfell has maintained its position as the top financial adviser for British public takeovers . |
| 17 | At Guinness Publishing , the other Guinness Enterprises company , the ever-popular Guinness Book of Records has maintained its position as the world 's best-selling copyright book . |
| 18 | Founded in 1864 , the group has maintained its image as a typical home service company , with a mixture of ordinary and industrial branch life business and general insurance business sold through a field force of up to 6,500 individuals , second only in terms of size to the Prudential 's of more than 12,000 . |
| 19 | ENynex Corp has extended its status as the biggest cable television operator in the UK by buying out US Cable Corp and Morgan Cable Ltd to take control of the Bury and Rochdale and Oldham and Tameside cable franchises : the New York and New England phone company now holds 19 franchises surviving a potential 2.7m homes and offices , and says it plans to invest over £1,000m in the next six to seven years to provide cable and telephone services ; at present it is providing cable television services to only 35,000 customers and 20,000 telephone lines . |
| 20 | In other words , far from having lessened , uneven development has changed its nature as the geography of the division of labour in society , and the dimensions of that division of labour itself , have evolved . |
| 21 | The University is determined to continue to strengthen its standing as a world-class university in respect of its research . |
| 22 | The dining room seats a maximum of 48 covers , which has tended to inhibit its use as a public restaurant during the peak season . |
| 23 | The need to channel economic and social resources to the elderly population thus helped to present its image as a ‘ burden ’ on the community . |
| 24 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 25 | The novel then began to stake its claim as a genre which could give insight into the human psyche that no news broadcast or film ever could . |
| 26 | The tangled affairs of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) continue to damage its reputation as a bank supervisor ( see box on next page ) . |
| 27 | Kirkbymoorside deserves sympathy for having lost its status as the only town in the country to have so far escaped the painter 's handiwork . |
| 28 | The usual sort of discussion seems to concern its value as a means . |
| 29 | this apparently buys an exhibition gallery utterly inadequate to host even a moderately-sized show ; a restaurant not large enough to serve both staff and members and be an income-generating venue for the public ; a bookshop that needs twice as much space if it is to be the premier one in England ; library and drawings storage that will mean costly out-housing as soon as the new facility is opened ; and finally — my own personal quibble — a drawings collection that will have lost its allure as a magnet for donor support . |
| 30 | ( The US government avoided using the word " blockade " at this time , preferring to describe its intention as the " interdiction " of sanctions-breaking . ) |