Example sentences of "[adv] as [vb -s] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | If such an experience can be recalled , it usually has the quality of being a person-to-person contact , not necessarily as equals in understanding , but cutting right through the barriers of status and age . |
| 2 | We are aiming to provide these two sets of things for the child in care , not as ends in themselves , but in order that children may develop a sense of their own self-worth , and research tells us that we have to get the balance right between these two important sets of needs for this end to be achieved . |
| 3 | And such desires , as I have argued , involve treating women as means , and not as ends in themselves . |
| 4 | Classroom organization and teaching strategies need to be seen as a means to an end , not as ends in themselves , and to allow this shift the ends or purposes need to be discussed and clarified . |
| 5 | Moments of self-doubt , fear , determination and rapid planning come over as pauses in an extremely close , tense account of the measures taken by Dick and his crew to cut wreckage clear and get the ship under control . |
| 6 | he 's er cut up , as soon as comes in the morning he likes a piece of toast . |
| 7 | But if birdsong , babbling streams and chopper blades could be slung between heavy-duty percussion — they reasoned — maybe these noises would stand up as tunes in their own right . |
| 8 | ( ‘ And even as wheels in harmony of clockwork so turn that the first , to whoso noteth it , seemeth still , and the last to fly … ’ ) |