Example sentences of "as [noun prp] express [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What origins , and what final justice , can be found for the critical assumption that , as Bradbury expresses it , ‘ the experimental tradition did shift or lapse ’ in Britain after modernism ( Bradbury 1973 : 86 ) ? |
| 2 | In Tanzania the Asians suffered attrition in stages as the combined effects of the Arusha Declaration and the nationalization of both private houses and wholesale trade ‘ cut them off at the knees ’ as Nyerere expressed it . |
| 3 | The decision that Shakespeare faced hundreds of times — whether to put his words , as Dryden expressed it , into verse or into ‘ the other harmony of prose ’ — is one that the reader ought always to be alert to , for each decision signals an element of dramatic meaning that we can yet recover . |
| 4 | Surkov : ‘ Discussion with rifles , as Lenin expressed it . ’ |
| 5 | As Lenin expressed it , ‘ concessions are a continuation of the war , but in a different sphere ’ . |
| 6 | As Einstein expressed it : ‘ The world that we have made at the level of thinking we have done so far , creates problems we can not solve at the same level of thinking ’ . |
| 7 | As Wittgenstein expresses it , ‘ if an order runs ‘ Do such-and-such ’ then executing the order is called ‘ doing such-and-such ’ ’ . |
| 8 | For such , God only frowns on the world , and stirs it to judgment ; the butterfly can not break loose into flight ; it merely expires , as Leonard expressed it , ending ‘ its life in three flag-swept days . ’ |
| 9 | As Leonard expressed it in the poem which — in title and texture counterbalances the title of the book : |
| 10 | As Khrushchev expressed it , ‘ We consider , proceeding from a Marxist-Leninist analysis of the present situation , that war is not inevitable today . |
| 11 | Their experience , as Augustine expressed it , took them : |
| 12 | Not only does a Christian believe ; he is a person who ‘ thinks in believing and believes in thinking ’ , as Augustine expressed it . |
| 13 | Yet , as Sharp expressed it , Christ taught ‘ that all mankind , even our professed enemies … must necessarily be esteemed our neighbours … so that the same benevolence … is indisputably due , under the Gospel , to our brethren of the universe ’ . |
| 14 | As Goldthorpe expressed it , any attempt to reduce inequalities via social policy reforms alone ‘ grossly misjudges the resistance that the class structure can offer to attempts to change it ’ . |