Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] as an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 2 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 3 | Again , like Marx and the elite theorists he conceives the state largely , if not wholly , in terms of domination ; and this ‘ realist ’ view distinguishes him sharply from those social scientists who , while differing about what the role of the state should be ( how interventionist or laissez-faire ) , agree fundamentally in regarding it as an autonomous and neutral body , which arbitrates among competing claims and expresses the real consensus in society that underlies particular conflicts of interest . |
| 4 | If shaft flexibility is not important dynamically there seems little point in introducing it as an unwanted variable in the swing . |
| 5 | Just as mainstream Surrealism made a point of emphasising the intuitive powers of women , and delighted in portraying her as an earthbound sorceress , so many women artists also presented their image as subject to the cycles of nature and magical forces . |
| 6 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 7 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 8 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |