Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 2 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 3 | There is nothing about this combination of themes which marks it out as the exclusive preserve of the right . |
| 4 | The exigent journalist Lynn Barber , in her collection of interviews Mostly Men , singles him out as the sole male representative of a type she describes as ‘ nice , straightforward , feet on the ground ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Another particularly odious corruption is the scholar who sets himself up as a unique authority on a certain painter , with the specific knowledge that , in cornering the market , his opinion will be essential for anyone dealing with works by that artist . |
| 6 | For Bürger ( 1984 , p. 48 ) it is specifically ‘ bourgeois art ’ that sets itself up as an autonomous realm . |