Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear . |
| 2 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 3 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 4 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 5 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 6 | Is it adequate to see it as an accommodation to existing educational structures , as Layton does ? |
| 7 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 8 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 9 | It is easier to understand it as an attempt to move away from something already characteristic of the community than as an attempt to move towards some outside idealization ( compare my comments on avoidance of stigma in Chapter 2.6 , above ) . |
| 10 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 11 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 12 | With mild sciatica , it 's sensible to regard it as a warning and be very careful about how you bend and lift . |
| 13 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 14 | It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 16 | Nor can I feel that the far finer E flat Symphony has much to commend it as a performance , beyond its solid assurance and resilient rhythm . |
| 17 | Once we are allowed simply to postulate organized complexity , if only the organized complexity of the DNA/ protein replicating engine , it is relatively easy to invoke it as a generator of yet more organized complexity . |
| 18 | Reading the plan it is hard to see it as the centrepiece of what was billed as the world 's first green election , in September 1989 . |
| 19 | Well , how about one or two lace patterns , for example , bed jackets and cardigans for those elderly and bedridden friends , something really pretty to give them as a gift . |
| 20 | For once in her life she was grateful for the surge of anger welling up inside her , glad to use it as a defence , even though in her heart she knew it was directed not at Dane but at herself . |
| 21 | And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm so glad to have you as a son , John . |
| 23 | As though you know erm after all head known all about it this is the to himself and by doing that then abbreviated then , that 's when the reader was supposed to take it as a thought process rather than a |
| 24 | The conclusion seems justified , but owing to the problems of transmission of these works of Scaevola , it is not possible to use it as a conclusion for classical law . |
| 25 | If a particular human is capable of handling the proper aspects of a gadget , which must include mental knowledge of its place in the Machine of Evolution , then it is possible to use it as an aid , but as there are increasing numbers of gadgets being invented and marketed , so the human brain has no time and space to see these in relation to its own life/thought scale because , upon being born , the human is thrown immediately into a multi-armed and legged wrestling match with levers , wires , buttons and switches and fails to grasp the meaning of it all , being occupied totally in rushing to partially master the use of one before the marketeers rush in faster with 10 new gleaming diversions . |
| 26 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 27 | As a final point about the root definition , it is sometimes useful to express it as a statement to see if it makes reasonable sense , and to double-check that all the CATWOE factors have been considered . |
| 28 | I could have left the background editor open and used embedding to place the background , but it 's better to keep it as a file . |
| 29 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 30 | In my view in the case of such a statutory assignment the person to whom compensation is payable under section 58 is B. He is the person who has become entitled to the deposit in place of A. The expression ‘ depositor ’ in that section is apt to embrace him as the assignee of A , and the ‘ protected deposit ’ referred to is the liability of the bank to him in respect of the United Kingdom sterling deposit or deposits to which he is entitled . |