Example sentences of "'s [noun] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ventured to ask him what he was writing , and he replied that the trouble with being a publisher was that one was so absorbed in other people 's books as to have insufficient time and energy to devote to one 's own . |
| 2 | Eichenbaum and Orbach ( 1982 ) also see women 's socialization as producing characteristic concerns with connection and emotion . |
| 3 | For my purposes here it is convenient to regard Barthes 's work as having two phases ; the first in which he is concerned with semiology , the second in which he is concerned with discourse . |
| 4 | This is quoted and endorsed by Meyers ( Homosexuality and Literature , 148 ) , who goes on to describe Lawrence 's Aaron 's Rod as possessing many components of ‘ a homosexual novel ’ including ‘ an intense hatred and fear of women , who are characterised in two male gatherings as threatening , frightening and repulsive ’ , and ‘ a symbolically castrated hero who is afraid to let himself go in heterosexual love and runs away from his three women ’ ( p. 154 ) . |
| 5 | The argument was that fiscal and monetary policies could be used to achieve the government 's objectives as regards full employment and the balance of payments ( although such policies were not very successful in that they gave rise to stop — go ) , and that incomes policies could be used to contain the inflationary consequences . |
| 6 | The discussion continues , with you attempting to assess his staff 's requirements as regards photocopying facilities and his attitude towards the Clearprint machine . |