Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still commend this report to council as the first real stride along the road we have to take , there 's no choice about that . |
| 2 | Riding 's governing bodies should be paying more attention to clothing as ‘ equipment ’ important for safety and performance instead of for appearance 's sake . |
| 3 | The Resource Options Programme is concerned to analyse the scope for and constraints upon ethnicity as a principle of economic organisation and group identity , paying special attention to localism as an alternative principle by which groups may organise or identify for particular purposes . |
| 4 | Although one limitation of Kendall 's explanation of European and Anglo-American distinctions is that it takes no account of the substantial differences which exist within his two comparison groups ( especially those between Britain and the USA ) nevertheless it is , as Shalev ( 1980a ) has shown , a useful approach in linking contextual structure to behaviour as a means of explaining the broad contrasts between the greater economism and internal unity of British and US unionism as compared with politicisation and ( outside Britain and Scandinavia ) religious/ideological divisions in Western Europe . |
| 5 | Weber also gave more emphasis to status as a factor which , in some circumstances , could override the effects of class on social behaviour and ideas , often to the point of diminishing them entirely . |
| 6 | The term coined by Banfield for this ethic is ‘ amoral familism ’ ; that it is ‘ amoral ’ is implicit in the exclusive pursuit of short-run material advantage ascribed to individuals in such societies , so that they lack any capacity to sacrifice immediate gains in favour of long-term advantage , and they are unable to associate any good to society as a whole with possible good to themselves or their family . |