Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] [pron] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 2 | From where he was lying , he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 4 | Gouldner was just three-quarters right in describing it as a culture of critical discourse ; for it is essentially a culture of self-critical discourse . |
| 5 | There was also Captain Hawes , another ex-serviceman , who was finally executed for robberies on the moor ; Whitney , the butcher , who was feared for his savagery and barbarism ; Captain Stafford , a Londoner who found fame on the moor , and Thomas Simpson ( Old Mob ) who , although hideously ugly , managed to evade capture regularly by disguising himself as a woman . |
| 6 | ‘ My solo record was a way of finding myself , a way almost of validating myself as a musician . |
| 7 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 8 | Instead of fearing her as a sensual temptation , a bringer of chaos into the monastic order and productivity of his life , he was able to work harder and better . |
| 9 | It is evident that he has no difficulty either in describing himself as a Dvaitin or Dualist , or as a follower of Viśi ādvaita or qualified non-Dualism , namely , non-Dualism with distinctions . |
| 10 | A 300dpi scanner can manage to scan in line artwork but , apart from using it as a guide , photographs are best left well alone . |
| 11 | Apart from identifying me as a Leeds supporter , the quality is normally a LOT better than your average socks etc , I have socks which I still wear going back 6–7 years , and they still feel like socks ! |
| 12 | I ca n't remember when I have n't had to work on Christmas Day became the animals have never got round to recognizing it as a holiday ; but with the passage of the years the vague resentment I used to feel has been replaced by philosophical acceptance . |
| 13 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 14 | All these , we know , are inversions of the truth , yet by using himself as a reference point , Iago can convince people to the stage where they accept his view unquestioningly . |
| 15 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 16 | The immersion programme in Canada ( described in Stern 1978 , 1983 ; Swain 1978 , 1982 ; Swain and Lapkin 1981 ) involves the teaching of French contingently by using it as a medium of instruction for other subjects on the curriculum . |