Example sentences of "[noun sg] as express [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike adherents of other contemporary religions in the Roman empire , except Judaism , Christians regarded their religion as expressing the purpose of God in history ; but whereas Judaism was concerned primarily with the fortunes of Israel , Christians considered their faith to be of universal significance . |
| 2 | Le Roy Ladurie himself characterises peasant witchcraft as expressing the frustration , anxiety and fear of people who were ‘ disillusioned with ideologies of urban origin , brutalised after 1560 by war , and haunted by the spectres of misery and death — and often by fears of sexual failure ’ . |
| 3 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 4 | It is proposed in this plan to lay down all the streets , squares , spaces , courts , lanes , yards , passages , fields , gardens , etc. , etc. , in such a manner as to express the exact dimensions of every regularly bounded plot of land in the township of Manchester and Salford , that will fall within that square which shall be judged the most proper to encompass it . |
| 5 | It may be because their investigation is primarily concerned with children 's speech , but , in describing the discourse topic as the ‘ question of immediate concern ’ , Keenan & Schieffelin appear to replace the idea of a single correct noun phrase as expressing the topic with the idea of a single correct phrase or sentence . |
| 6 | He believed that once the real heart and living impulse at its core were discerned , it had validity and significance as expressing the nature of man himself . |
| 7 | The distinction of meaning is especially clear with perfect participles ; these show a well-known alternation between interpretation as expressing an event ( therefore the occasion value ) and interpretation as expressing a state : ( 23 ) labelled goods vs sent goods The word sent is unusual prenominally precisely because it has the sort of meaning which makes an actual or implicit reference to the event of despatch , and hence it is far more likely to be used post-nominally . |
| 8 | The distinction of meaning is especially clear with perfect participles ; these show a well-known alternation between interpretation as expressing an event ( therefore the occasion value ) and interpretation as expressing a state : ( 23 ) labelled goods vs sent goods The word sent is unusual prenominally precisely because it has the sort of meaning which makes an actual or implicit reference to the event of despatch , and hence it is far more likely to be used post-nominally . |
| 9 | Consenting to have one 's mail opened by another , to be visited without prior arrangement , and to have another arrange aspects of one 's plans or activities without prior consultation ( e.g. accepting invitations in one 's name ) may or may not be justified by their instrumental value , but in any case they are taken in our culture as expressing the existence of certain attitudes , as in part constituting those attitudes . |