Example sentences of "[to-vb] they as [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 2 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 3 | She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her . |
| 4 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 5 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 6 | They appear to regard them as useful for acquainting teachers and brighter pupils with industrial life , but to discount them as a means of selecting employees . |
| 7 | To regard them as an example of a clear-cut binary opposition between good and evil , or rationality and irrationality fails to engage with the kinds of investments which they actually entail . |
| 8 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 9 | " Whatever the force of this cryptic remark , it is up to us as readers to find a value for these preferences , or else to dismiss them as the outcome of prejudice or eccentricity . |
| 10 | They asked us to take them as a matter of urgency because the children were in such poor condition |
| 11 | And having destroyed him , it was this other side of the ambivalence that came back to haunt them as a sense of guilt and deferred obedience , and out of guilt , they instituted the incest , the incest prohibition . |