Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourdieu 's first task is to rescue taste as preference from essentialist doctrines of aesthetics , and thereby free it as a potential tool for the contingent historical analysis of society . |
| 2 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 3 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 4 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 5 | Dreikurs advises parents to restrict talking to friendly conversations and not use it as a disciplinary measure . |
| 6 | Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre . |
| 7 | And just treat it as a |
| 8 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
| 9 | In the second century B.C. the Romans had gained control of the Sacred island of Delos in the Cyclades and later established it as a commercial trading post in the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | It was a bird that would appeal to popular sentiment ; indeed , Gould advocated its adoption as Australia 's national bird , and later used it as a motif on the covers of his Birds of Australia series , showing the male lyre-bird with the beautiful lyre-shaped plumes of its tail raised in courtship . |
| 11 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 12 | In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull , and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests . |
| 13 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |
| 14 | Once again demonstrating the resilience which had become a characteristic of his candidacy , Clinton campaigned strongly in New York , and even chose it as the venue for his first foreign policy speech since December . |
| 15 | However , the Cultural Revolution was also presented as an attempt by the party to gain control of the state bureaucracy and even replace it as an organ of implementation . |
| 16 | Rather than wait until a discourse is finished , and then analyse it as a whole , from outside and with the benefit of hindsight , the ethnomethodologists try to understand how it unfolds in time . |
| 17 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 18 | One prepares one 's Bill and then presents it as a petition to Parliament . |
| 19 | This they make by chewing wood , masticating it with their saliva and then expelling it as a moist pulp which hardens as it dries . |
| 20 | and then do it as an offer . |
| 21 | The initial decision of the complainant was not without importance , for if , after hearing the evidence of witnesses , the justice of the peace decided that the case was not serious enough to be sent to a superior court , he could not then and there try it as a police court case . |
| 22 | Both might just by accident hit on the fraudulent behaviour eliciting the desired response , and subsequently adopt it as a strategy in such situations . |
| 23 | If he answers his own question in the affirmative ( which he clearly does ) de Man will have read the text in a certain way and therefore construed it as an object , the discovery of which will then be used to validate the way in which the text has been read . |