Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the project is to increase understanding of how companies can best develop a strategy for both acquiring new technologies and for effectively exploiting them as an instrument of competitive strategy . |
| 2 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 3 | The counsellor said , ‘ You are describing Sarah in a very loving and respectful way — but you sound angry when you say that you expect me to pull you up for not describing her as a lover , too . |
| 4 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 5 | He would watch the movements of birds for hours through his binoculars without ever assuming that this activity could be interesting to other people , without ever promoting it as a topic of conversation . |
| 6 | Believe me , I would be truly delighted if she found a new and permanent partner , even though it is difficult to even regard her as a friend after her display of greed , and the wrong impression she deliberately gave you at Ib 's Club from sheer vindictiveness . |
| 7 | With such ambiguous structures , characterising any debate on how to improve them as a struggle between the principles of self-regulation and statutory regulation is unlikely to add to anybody 's understanding of the issues . |
| 8 | Once baptised in the fiery power of the Spirit which had been in Jesus , the disciples at once interpret it as the fulfilment of Joel 's prophecy about the availability of the Spirit in the last days , and proclaim the good news to the representative crowd from ‘ every nation under heaven ’ which had gathered in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost ( 2:16ff ) . |
| 9 | After the success of Carrots and of The Cuckoo Clock the following year , which at once established her as a leading writer for children , she was to write prolifically , sometimes , as in the 1880s and early 1890s , completing seven books in a year . |
| 10 | Whatever Beccaria 's personal position , his vision of a social contract set up by people who can at least imagine themselves as the recipients of its punishments is in marked contrast to the later , positivist position that tended to see criminals as different kinds of people altogether . |
| 11 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 12 | Both parties adopted the name League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change , and announced that the LCY could only survive by embracing a clearly-defined democratic reform policy and by radically restructuring itself as a confederation of independent parties . |
| 13 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |