Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ‘ the men ’ who act as a body , and the actual organizer is recognized only as the symbolic embodiment of ‘ the men ’ , and is in no way superior or qualitatively different from ‘ the men ’ ‘ |
| 2 | The intensity of this erotic charge is only slightly less remarkable than its investment , a kind of reverse sublimation whereby neurosis is fantasized sexually as a potent purity inviting submission : ‘ What do I care if he kills people ? |
| 3 | It sets out to cover the normal stages of language development between the ages of 1 and 5 years , although it is intended principally as a clinical tool for children with delayed and deviant language . |
| 4 | The list given here is intended only as a general guide . |
| 5 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 6 | Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 . |
| 7 | Yet years on how come that it is Cecil who is regarded mostly as a flawed but well meaning sweety-pie and Miss Keays as someone who has all the charisma of an old battleaxe ? |
| 8 | Hence , to the extent that consent is justified non-instrumentally as a constitutive element in a relationship between a citizen and his society , it is valid only if it exists between a citizen and a reasonably just society . |
| 9 | The Bible is treated primarily as a human product ; the world is explored by human investigation , and only what can be established rationally and scientifically is to be believed ; religion itself must be validated by reference to human experience , human values and human reason . |
| 10 | When Minton painted alongside students in the life class ( ‘ That was a marvellous adrenalin shot , ’ recalled Greaves ) he taught by example that a picture has to have a lively activity right up to the four edges of the canvas , and that if the background is treated merely as a secondary constituent to the model , areas of the canvas will become inert . |
| 11 | Its growth is considered here as a specific political issue which , for the purposes of both clarity and brevity , is distinguished apart from the broader social history of the period . |
| 12 | It is considered rather as a pragmatic solution to the classification of library and information materials ; however its contribution in this context should not be underrated . |
| 13 | God is permitted only as a verifiable divinity who gets extremely cross at man 's transgressions . |
| 14 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 15 | The check is carried out as a preliminary step within option 1.5.2 , Prepare Package for Approval . |
| 16 | Hathor is depicted either as a beautiful young woman or as a rather sad cow . |
| 17 | Where part of a building is let off as a separate factory the landlord will be responsible for providing and maintaining in efficient working order and good repair sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the factory ( Factories Act 1961 , s7(1) , s122 ) . |
| 18 | In spite of the visual evidence , Lam is presented less as a modernist than as a rebel against modernism , as the outsider who challenges Europe on its own terms and wins . |
| 19 | These can be packed , almost as an afterthought , beneath a nicely arranged selection of fresh fruit , which is presented ostensibly as the main part of the gift . |
| 20 | And let us say that the meaning of a statement is valuational if and only if there is a certain attitude to which it is related just as a cognitive statement is related to a certain belief . |
| 21 | Cole continues : Socialism is seen here as an alternative and exclusive economic system , among the identifying characteristics of which two must be present : consumers ' control and the elimination of private profit . |
| 22 | The state is seen not as a neutral body , but as the key agency in the promotion of the interests and values of the ruling class in capitalist society . |
| 23 | It is seen not as a racial characteristic but as identical with race . |
| 24 | the reproduction now functions as the original , the live performance is measured against the recording , and technical equipment is seen not as an external aid to reproduction but as a characteristic of the musical original , employed as part of the artistic conception ( ibid : 236 ) . |
| 25 | Too often reading is seen only as a solitary activity : Spellbinders promote the more social aspects of reading . |
| 26 | The meeting with Mr Terreblanche — ‘ ET ’ as he is popularly known — is seen more as a public relations gesture than a meaningful initiative . |
| 27 | Felixstowe is growing rapidly as a new container port with special equipment to handle the containers of manufactured goods and parts going mainly to and from other countries of the EEC . |
| 28 | SIR — Poly- R -3 hydroxybutyrate ( PHB ) , a hydrophobic storage polymer found in bacteria , is used commercially as a biodegradable thermoplastic . |
| 29 | While paperwork is employed also as a protective strategy ( cf. |
| 30 | Pete Jones returns to the front row and Andy Deacon is called back as the other prop |