Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can not they too be committed to the view that philosophy must deal with matters of fact , and that to claim something as a matter of fact one must be able to state what observations would in principle establish its truth or falsity ? |
| 2 | Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear . |
| 3 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 4 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 5 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 6 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 7 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 8 | Is it adequate to see it as an accommodation to existing educational structures , as Layton does ? |
| 9 | For justification , and the very baptism which is its outward symbol , means dying with Christ and rising again ; dying to the old sinful ways , and being prepared to see them as characteristics of the unregenerate nature that was dealt with on the cross by Jesus and must be kept there . |
| 10 | Edward VI had n't reached sixteen years of age before he died , in July 1553 , and for just nine days Lady Jane Grey was considered to be Queen Jane , but the country was not prepared to accept her as Queen . |
| 11 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 12 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 13 | Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account |
| 14 | They must , for example , be able to think of themselves as ‘ the sort of person who does have incestuous sexual desires ’ , is prepared to avow them as ‘ part ’ of the self , and ceases to be so threatened by them . |
| 15 | In other words they usually , ‘ dance classically from their feet to the waist and above that are free to express themselves as people of more definite behaviour , work , play and age ’ ( de Valois in a lecture to teachers , 1947 ) . |
| 16 | But do you agree that we should put diplomatic pressure that George Bush should , the Europeans should , Douglas Hurd should , and say look guys whatever you do , if it , though were prepared to recognise you as an independent state , do n't take it out on the Russians ? |
| 17 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 18 | It is easier to understand it as an attempt to move away from something already characteristic of the community than as an attempt to move towards some outside idealization ( compare my comments on avoidance of stigma in Chapter 2.6 , above ) . |
| 19 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | As such there is controversy about the extent to which it is justifiable to describe them as political systems in their own right . |
| 21 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 22 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 23 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 24 | With mild sciatica , it 's sensible to regard it as a warning and be very careful about how you bend and lift . |
| 25 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 26 | It seems to me , however , that to view them as part of a wider set of problems relating to speech-writing differences is more consistent with verifiable linguistic data . |
| 27 | Rather than market and hierarchy being opposed to types , as in the Williamsonian formulation , it may be more appropriate to see them as alternative solutions to the problem of how to arrange functional alignment within the enterprise . |
| 28 | It would not be easy to acknowledge themselves as the poor relation . |
| 29 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 30 | But although ‘ In Place of Strife ’ was in accord with majority public opinion , it was certainly not in accord with Labour Party and union opinion , and although that in itself has not always blocked the parliamentary leadership , this time it became obvious that sufficient Labour MPs would reject the proposals to make it impossible to establish them as law . |