Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 2 | In the main , employees who refuse to accept alternative employment which requires them to move house are unlikely to be deemed as refusing it unreasonably. for instance in Rose v. |
| 3 | Okan , a production engineer , has seen his collection of reptiles grow as has his electricity bill . |
| 4 | The person whom we regard from our earliest years as wielding such power , the first person we realise as affecting our lives from outside us is the parent . |
| 5 | By institutionalising conflict , party politics provides the means by which the accumulated potential of passionate conviction may be so far discharged as to avoid its most damaging manifestations : where the resources available to the forces for and against change are evenly balanced , civil war ; where they are greater for those against change , repression ; and where they are greater for those for change , revolution . |
| 6 | In the meantime , it looks as thought he 's back to borrowing his brothers clothes again . |
| 7 | She was reported as seeing it as a serious matter and thought the fine by the court was not enough : ‘ I 'd have chopped his hand off if I 'd had the chance ’ . |
| 8 | The Southeast Asian states themselves were reported as having their doubts about Bao Dai 's recognition and , eventually , the Thai Foreign Minister , Pote Sarasin , made it the issue on which he resigned . |
| 9 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 10 | When applications that year were made , Lauda and others were smart enough to realize that the licences had been so designed as to tie them to their teams , a move cleverly designed by certain constructors to lower the price war among drivers and to prevent desertions in the ranks . |
| 11 | For him , the sense of a sentence is determined by the sorts of situation we count in favour of the sentence being true , in such a way that the sentence with that sense ( i.e. as we understand it ) can not be false if the sort of situation we count as making it true occurs . |
| 12 | When children do not do as asked they are strapped . |
| 13 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 14 | Asclepiodatus can , therefore , be seen as beginning his career in the service of Guntram , for whom he acted as referendary , transferring to Childebert in 593 , and then becoming patricius of Provence under Childebert 's sons . |
| 15 | Generally regarded as more liberal and more affable than Lee , Goh was seen as lacking his charisma and there was some speculation as to how long Goh would remain in the post . |
| 16 | The cases equally indicate the boundary beyond which the church was seen as abusing its definitions of the sacred . |
| 17 | Arts teachers are also not seen as helping their own cause in as much as classroom practices in the arts might not be living up to the expectations of other professional staff . |
| 18 | Within this framework , individuals are seen as monitoring their behaviour with reference to private and public standards . |
| 19 | Human beings are seen as constructing their actions in a process of interaction with others via the use of symbols , such as language — hence ‘ symbolic interactionism ’ . |
| 20 | Andrew Tickle of Greenpeace commented : " Britain is seen as dragging its feet by the rest of Europe , giving minimum information and talking political rather than scientific targets . " |
| 21 | Anderson and Roberts can perhaps be seen as offering us different facets of essentially a similar situation , where feelings of affection and concepts of duty are taken into calculations about mutual advantage based on material considerations . |
| 22 | Rather , speakers are seen as modifying their behaviour to accommodate to group norms , where both the group and the norms themselves are as perceived by the speaker . |
| 23 | The ideal model helps to differentiate the workforce ( by age , sex and colour ) according to how far different groups approximate to the model and can be seen as representing its exemplary qualities of commitment and reliability . |
| 24 | The blood discharged by a woman during birthing is also seen as rendering her unclean . |
| 25 | As we are using the notion rules are to be seen as having all-or-none character — if a rule governs a kind of action such action is always governed by rule . |
| 26 | Recruitment is based on personality or physical attributes which are seen as having nothing to do with education ; |
| 27 | It is often seen as having nothing to do with the ‘ real ’ world — that is , as a reflection of one 's experiences and perceptions quite independent of those of the dominant group . |
| 28 | After analysis , these strategies will be seen as having their own associated difficulties . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , the first sign that the Japanese government is buying exclusively from domestic PC makers will be seen as confirming its intention to bail out NEC and others with disguised subsidies . |
| 30 | Members also felt the constitution was counter-productive , especially when capital projects called for an injection of cash over which they would have no control , and which was seen as improving someone else 's investment . |