Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical interest of the collection and , indeed , of the palazzo itself has led to a decision to open it as a museum . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been a privilege to have you as a student … ah , but your French is already of so excellent a quality … and you are occupied with your researches . |
| 3 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 4 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 5 | While Koch 's helmsmanship and the inconsistent selection of his afterguard have made headlines for yachting writers , it would be a mistake to dismiss him as a rich fool . |
| 6 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 7 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 8 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of our traders , particularly the younger ones , compete to see who can wear the most outrageous clothes , ’ says a spokesman , ‘ There was a discussion to do it as a joke but there was not a real consensus . |
| 10 | But they are n't in a position to harass you as the British on their home ground would be . |
| 11 | I do think it is a possibility to use him as a substitute to come on when there s more space around on the pitch . |
| 12 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 13 | Most important of all , it meant a decline in the relative importance of privateers and even , at least in Britain , a tendency to regard them as a hindrance to the work of the navy proper . |