Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was inspired and strengthened by seeing herself not as a passive victim , or a cancer patient , but as an individual working for her own health and well-being . |
| 2 | By bringing it out as an A-format , £4.99 , mass-market paperback we hope to attract a much wider readership . |
| 3 | When war breaks out , he becomes separated from his relatives , but manages to survive the war by passing himself off as a German soldier of Aryan origin . |
| 4 | The subtler of the recent readings of the Shipman 's Tale keeps the merchant in the position of target figure by treating him not as a realistic character , but as a functional one : a figure representing the interplay of more abstract themes and factors affecting human life . |
| 5 | We have been impressed by the evidence we have received that this gave an inadequate account of the English language by treating it virtually as a branch of Latin , and constructing a rigid prescriptive code rather than a dynamic description of language in use . |
| 6 | There is after all nothing inherently wrong with quoting fiction — with saying , for example , that Baker Street once housed a detective called Sherlock Holmes — so long as you do n't mislead anyone by palming it off as a fact . |