Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] its [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This view of language brings philology to life for Julia ; she suddenly sees its object as the product of individual creativity . |
| 2 | BIS had its beginnings as the ACRL Bibliographic Instruction Task Force and one of its products was the Bibliographic instruction handbook , a practical guide to the establishment and design of library instruction programmes for academic libraries . |
| 3 | However , the Working Party report was turned down by the Council on the grounds that its proposals did ‘ not sufficiently reflect its value as an independent and impartial body for setting academic standards . ’ |
| 4 | During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power . |
| 5 | The common law concept of " exclusive possession " is thus losing its significance as the foundation of the security of tenure of the residential occupier . |
| 6 | Consultants are to be appointed shortly to examine its role as an executive agency and to consider how its work might be best carried out in the future . |
| 7 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 8 | Like Patrick , he at once recognised its potential as an improvised mortar . |
| 9 | TYPE design still reflects its origins as a craft . |
| 10 | Similarly , if secondary legislation has already created the ECU , can it not further define its role as a currency ? |
| 11 | In addition to the role of the military in the policy-making process , we should also consider its importance as an executor of policy . |
| 12 | In the 20 years between 1919 and 1939 British town planning , while still resting firmly on public-sector housing-led initiatives undertaken before 1914 , proceeded both to consolidate its position as a tool of government and to widen its disciplinary and professional scope . |
| 13 | as if confusion regarding genus were not enough , ‘ C. ’ synspilum has also had its validity as a separate species questioned . |
| 14 | Private Members ' Bills not only preserve an important margin of policy initiative for backbench MPs , but Westminster 's increasing role as a centre for interest lobbying also strengthens its function as the crucible of interest representation in political life . |
| 15 | The changing character of the village also diminishes its relevance as a social centre for the farm worker . |
| 16 | Mnt repressor of phage P22 is homologous to Arc , and also binds its operator as a tetramer . |
| 17 | Its toxicity has severely limited its use as an antiulcer drug but either it or its analogues are occasionally used clinically . |
| 18 | Having described what the Chart qua graph looks like we must now consider its properties as a process . |
| 19 | Today , the response based on total ignorance is still alive and well in circumstances in which even the limited attention given to gender discrimination in schools far exceeds its identification as an issue in the provision of educational opportunities for adult women . |
| 20 | Barcelona became once more a great Mediterranean port — its trade , which had been the pride of medieval Catalonia , had quintupled since the early years of the century — and it now started its career as an industrial city . |
| 21 | Perhaps a more interesting development is the likelihood that Pyramid will now recast its image as a supplier only of high-end transaction systems . |
| 22 | British Telecom is now exploiting its freedom as a commercial company to the full , where Telekom has to hand over all its hard-earned profits to prop up a grossly overmanned and inefficient postal and post-bank service . |
| 23 | TEN Hong Kong ship owners completed a ‘ fact-finding mission ’ to Singapore yesterday , and are now weighing its advantages as a pre-1997 bolt hole before Communist China retakes Hong Kong . |
| 24 | Peter White , Managing Director of British Airways Cargo , comments : ‘ Air cargo is increasingly proving its worth as the premier mode of distribution , especially as more companies practice ‘ Just-In-Time ’ inventory controls . |
| 25 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 26 | This commercial imperialism was reflected in the liberal social evolutionism of the philosopher Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , which assumed that laissez-faire individualism would spread around the world by simply demonstrating its efficiency as an economic system . |
| 27 | Whatever the implausibility of Crichton 's story , however , there is no doubting its merit as a rattling good read . |
| 28 | It was due to become effective following its formal ratification by North Korea , which had signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1985 , but had not previously discharged its obligation as a signatory to negotiate and sign a safeguards agreement which would allow international inspection . |
| 29 | From the time that General Marian Spychalski was replaced as Minister of National Defence in 1968 , the Army steadily lost its appeal as a vehicle for intrigue . |
| 30 | O2 Technology SA , the object-oriented database start-up in Versailles , says it has signed a partnership agreement with Paris-based Ingenia SA , a consultancy specialising in object-oriented technology , artificial intelligence and man-machine interfaces : under the non-exclusive agreement , Ingenia will sell O2 to its clients in the defence , agro-chemical and automotive industries ; O2 is an object-oriented database that has yet to make its mark as a commercial success ; an O2 spokeswoman said Ingenia has great expectations of the potential of O2 to be used for a large number of its applications . |