Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] its [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will normally be in the best interests of a child of sufficient age and understanding to make an informed decision that the court should respect its integrity as a human being and not lightly override its decision on such a personal matter as medical treatment , all the more so if that treatment is invasive . |
| 2 | If The Lord of the Rings should approach too close to ‘ Gospel-truth ’ , to the Christian myth in which Tolkien himself believed , it might forfeit its status as a story and become at worst a blasphemy , an ‘ Apocryphal gospel ’ , at best a dull allegory rehearsing in admittedly novel form what everyone ought to know already . |
| 3 | But the company , which loses its ITV franchise at the end of this year , was anxious to find partners so it could keep its status as an independent producer . |
| 4 | The final communiqué was notable for its extraordinary length and a good deal of self-congratulation ( as when it referred to ‘ the age-old tradition of tolerance and universality ’ which the assembled countries personified ) , yet no-one could deny its significance as a symbol of the Third World renascence . |
| 5 | People feared that turning the City into Fort Knox would damage its attraction as a financial centre . |
| 6 | The smell would catch its victims as a spider 's web ensnares a fly . |
| 7 | This would not abolish literature but would remove its exclusivity as a category ; the task of the English Department is to be redefined as ‘ studying texts ’ rather than ‘ teaching literature ’ . |
| 8 | If it was , it would jeopardise its position as the gateway to China . ’ |
| 9 | ( b ) a recognised body which is an unlimited company shall retain its status as an unlimited company , save where the Council consents to the body being re-registered as limited by shares under the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 10 | Given the Association 's fall in membership since the late 1940s , and given the views canvassed by some who worked in the field , exemplified by Bruce in The Highway , there were real fears that the WEA would lose its status as a Responsible Body . |
| 11 | IF THE space station dies , or is substantially slimmed down , the Superconducting Super Collider ( SSC ) , under construction in Ellis County , Texas , will claim its title as the biggest science project . |
| 12 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 13 | The Branch has formed a local Management Committee to operate the Lodge on behalf of the Association within agreed guidelines and , judging from the number of applications specifically for The White House , Bexhill-on-Sea will retain its reputation as the retirement centre of the South . |
| 14 | Public awareness of its advantages and more importantly its acceptance as a safe process will promote its use as a common place preservation process as pasteurisation was almost a century ago . |
| 15 | Video media , with its powerful images used interactively for teaching , will find its niche as a propaganda tool . |
| 16 | Moreover no proper name can fulfil its function as a proper name without certain descriptions that specify the conditions under which the name in question can be significantly applied , but it does not follow for this that names are ultimately " reducible " to descriptions ; i.e. that , in the final analysis , there is no real difference between them at all . |