Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] its [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latin began to regain its status as the medium for elegant communication , science was being relegated to ‘ a small , odd , insignificant band of professionals ’ , while the Royal Society , abandoning the rather splendid hope that scientific language could provide a model for cultural discourse , was becoming influenced by dilettantism , and correspondingly less practical in its aims . |
| 2 | The novel then began to stake its claim as a genre which could give insight into the human psyche that no news broadcast or film ever could . |
| 3 | Of all the host countries , there is the greatest possibility in Syria , as in 1949 , that the Palestine refugee population could be resettled and persuaded to accept its lot as a permanent part of the host country . |
| 4 | Although Egypt offered its full support to Iraq , it still managed to assert its role as a regional moderator and as the main link between the Arab states , Israel and the West ; thus , during a visit to Baghdad on April 7 , Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak widened the debate by calling for the mass elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . |
| 5 | For years , the lonely box had played its part as an essential signal post on the busy main line without anything untoward disturbing its peaceful operation . |
| 6 | If for the Spanish right the Republic had confirmed its promise as an uncongenial regime , for sections of the left it had by mid-1933 failed to fulfil hopes of far-reaching and irreversible social reform . |
| 7 | It therefore refused to cede its authority as the recognised providing body to the Board . |