Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His election on three separate occasions as MP for Middlesex in 1768–69 , and the repeated refusals of the House of Commons to admit him as a member , did much to stimulate in London the current of political radicalism which was later to run so strongly there . |
| 2 | This solid , reliable book has a number of features to recommend it as a starting point in the discovery of Picasso , not least the interesting thematic chronological charts which cover topics such as ‘ Stages in the discovery and appropriation of primitivism ’ e.g. ‘ Autumn 1906 , Derain and Matisse return to Paris , each having acquired his first African mask ’ , and ‘ Stages of the revolution in papier colles ’ . |
| 3 | Many have thus latched on to Oakeshott 's use of tradition to identify him as a Burkean conservative . |
| 4 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 5 | The Romanian Government , WHO and UNICEF have taken a great interest in our education programme and are actively looking for ways to use it as a model for Health Education in Romania . |
| 6 | She therefore engages in a diagnostic experiment of identifying historically distinct meanings of the concept in order to use them as a measure against contemporary political usage . |
| 7 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 8 | If an object is annexed to land in order to enjoy it as a chattel ( eg a carpet nailed to the floor ) it will not become a fixture but will remain a chattel . |
| 9 | The running yield is given by dividing the coupon by current market price and then multiplying the result by 100 in order to express it as a percentage . |
| 10 | He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life . |
| 11 | When he heard about Daisy 's move he was now sufficiently informed about Casualty to welcome me as a fellow-member of his L.M.F. club . |
| 12 | It is frightening how dependent upon drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills . |
| 13 | A year later , Hope bought the site of St Augustine 's Abbey at Canterbury to rebuild it as a college for Anglican missionaries . |
| 14 | Outside the field of fiction ( and possibly , biography ) , coverage is not wide enough for librarians to use them as a regular source of selection information . |