Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 2 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 3 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 5 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 6 | Jesus releases us from this addiction by revealing himself as the willing servant , humbled to the point of death , submitting his will to the will of God . |
| 7 | The 19-year-old wonderkid from Romford could save the Gunners more than £2million in the transfer market by establishing himself as a key figure in his club 's revived quest for the Premier League title . |
| 8 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 9 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 10 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 11 | Neil Kinnock has won a standing ovation from the Labour Party faithful at their conference in Blackpool , by presenting himself as the next Prime Minister . |
| 12 | He had effectively signed his own death-warrant by describing himself as a British subject . |
| 13 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 14 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 15 | Do you avoid the responsibility of countering sexist attitudes by viewing them as a natural part of the society 's framework which students expect you to reinforce ? |
| 16 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 17 | When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government . |
| 18 | What is meant by treating you as a whole person ? |
| 19 | On June 15 the military expressed their support for Gen. Chaovalit by appointing him as a special adviser to the Internal Security Command , the Supreme Command , and the combined armed forces . |
| 20 | Positive form can be introduced into any polygon or polyhedron by regarding it as a closed skin subjected to internal expansion . |
| 21 | By recognizing you as a regular guest . |
| 22 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if you 're making something the world wants , by making it as the lowest cost supplier , you can usually expand your work-force . |
| 24 | Now , the world 's leading impartial computer industry report — produced by Dataquest — has confirmed it , by placing us as the Overall Leaders for Customer Satisfaction in their annual user poll . |
| 25 | Other feminists , like Mitchell ( 1974 ) and Coward ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 ) , have tried to tie Lacanian psychoanalysis to social relations , by interpreting it as a descriptive account of how discourses of femininity and masculinity are reproduced , through language , in our conscious and unconscious subjectivities . |
| 26 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 27 | It took advantage of the country 's transferred preferential voting system by projecting itself as the second choice for the country 's growing number of Green voters . |
| 28 | Eschewing the traditional media , Perot used telephone banks and television and radio talk shows to exploit the anti-incumbency mood currently prevalent within the USA , by portraying himself as a principled outsider , untarnished by the exercise of power . |
| 29 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 30 | Similarly , he feels that by offering it as a no-cost option , the company invalidates the criticism that users will tie themselves into a non-standard technology : since V.32terbo is downwardly compatible with V.32bis , he points out that users are not losing anything by giving themselves the option of faster transmission with V.32terbo . |