Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [noun] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That person may hold ‘ citizenship ’ as a legal , national status , but does not display citizenship as a quality . |
| 2 | Pauline Mitchell , head of housing , said : ‘ We do not have any areas for any particular people and we certainly do not identify travellers as a group . |
| 3 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 4 | Yanto did not like Sundays as a rule . |
| 5 | Most of the non-payees can not claim unemployment as an excuse , says members ' registrar Bob Russell . |
| 6 | Many Christians do not see Jesus as a sacrifice in the same way . |
| 7 | ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’ |
| 8 | The Greater York study did not designate Skelton as an area for expansion until two thousand and six , and no proposal exists in other plans for the making of an inset into the greenbelt on the basis of the need for expansion . |
| 9 | I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior . |
| 10 | Do not use time as an excuse , he wrote . |
| 11 | But , as Elinor was always telling him , Henry did not inspire confidence as a representative of the legal profession . |
| 12 | If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want . |
| 13 | So too an attempt to make a direct gift , which fails because the proper method of transfer is not employed , will not take effect as a trust . |
| 14 | Jacob can not approach Esau as a brother . |
| 15 | Further , repeating groups do occur in applications ( values in a ledger , for instance ) , but the normalisation process does not permit representation as an array . |
| 16 | Examining the reports of the Chief Constable of Birmingham between 1900 and 1940 , Tony Mason notes that football does not merit inclusion as a policing problem . |
| 17 | She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry . |
| 18 | Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't regard Jews as a class , ’ he snapped back at his questioner , ‘ I regard them as a privileged misfortune . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't want marriage as a lifeline . |
| 21 | There 's an interesting historical paradox in the impact of AIDS on the gay community because without the existence of an international gay community I do n't think AIDS as a disease could have had the rapid impact it 's had on gay men . |
| 22 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |
| 23 | I noticed it was quite odd that he did n't use McGoldrick as a sweeper did he ? |
| 24 | In fact , whereas I would n't see art as a necessity , I would see the woman as a necessity . |
| 25 | But , when I was asked to go on a demonstration years ago , I did n't because I just do n't see gender as a problem . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't see television as an institution , nor as a continuum of programming into which my work must be fitted . |
| 27 | ‘ Most people do n't face emergencies as a matter of course , and no one expects them to be anything but human . ’ |
| 28 | Face it if if he did n't have Adam as a friend he 'd be definitely mateless . |
| 29 | You ca n't have time as a decimal , time is not a decimal . |
| 30 | Corollary 1.9.15 If F ε Z[x] and if one ca n't write F as a product of polynomials , each of smaller degree and with integer coefficients , then one still ca n't write F as a product of polynomials each of smaller degree even if one is prepared to use polynomials with rational coefficients . |