Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist psychology also finds it difficult to deal with apparent irrationalities in women 's subjectivity except by pathologizing the women , or seeing them as social victims . |
| 2 | Why are they resisting those arguments , or seeing them as concessions that might be made during negotiations ? |
| 3 | She thinks it is simply awful that being successful and ( reading the ill-camouflaged sub-text ) gorgeous means that men wo n't chat her up , admire her breasts or perceive her as a sexual creature . |
| 4 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 5 | Considering himself throughout a true Catholic , Henry had been reluctant to enter into close association with foreign Protestant states , and when political necessity had induced him to consider allying with the German Lutheran princes in the 1530s , he had adamantly refused to accept their confession of faith or to view them as co-religionists . |
| 6 | This operation may be put in two-address form by placing the editing pattern in the destination string ( where it will be overwritten ) , or inserting it as a string of " micro-operations " in the instruction stream . |
| 7 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 8 | When you 've finished faffing around with the fonts , you can choose to either axe your disastrous experiment , or install it as a TrueType font itself . |
| 9 | It is negotiable , and if the drawer is of financial substance or if it is supported by some sort of security , cash may be raised by discounting it , selling it , or lodging it as collateral for a loan . |
| 10 | Either they dispute the sceptic 's right to assert the conclusion , or to assert it as a conclusion ; or they suggest directly that the conclusion can not be true , and that hence they are excused from considering any suggested reason for believing it . |
| 11 | In any event the presumption is rebuttable and will be fairly easily rebutted where a developer needs to retain ownership of the road in order to build it or to dedicate it as a public highway . |
| 12 | Such theories , he remarks , ‘ are not centrally concerned with literature ; indeed , they may marginalize or abandon it as a category ’ , and he instances their source in such fields as philosophy , psychology , sociology , anthropology , linguistics . |
| 13 | The usual ways of dealing with such individuals is to ignore them , or to ‘ diagnose ’ them psychoanalytically , or to use them as ‘ proof of the misogyny of the Church authorities . |
| 14 | Two women seemed anxious to provide Tate with an alibi , or to use him as an alibi for themselves . |
| 15 | Advance comprises five distinct components and a firm has the option either to mix and match certain elements or to use it as a complete package , thereby effectively outsourcing all of its software functions . |
| 16 | In the face of the fundamentalists ' electoral success , the FLN political bureau on June 17 issued a statement rejecting " all attempts to return Islam to the era of charlatanism and myths or to use it as an instrument of demagogy and political opportunism " . |
| 17 | For example : the traditional notation regarding ‘ on board ’ loading was replaced by a ‘ taking in charge ’ statement ; the traditional prohibition against transhipment was eliminated , because transhipment was of the essence in combined transport ; since the transport commonly originated and finished inland , the terms ‘ place of receipt ’ and ‘ place of delivery ’ were inserted in separate boxes , either replacing the traditional ‘ port of loading ’ and ‘ port of discharge ’ or joining them as additional specifications ; and since often times the name of the vessel was not known or could not be established with certainty at the time of issuance , the box for the vessel 's name was modified to refer to an ‘ intended vessel . ’ |
| 18 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 19 | The suffering which inevitably follows shall be deemed to be of no consequence , because physical evolution itself disregards suffering , or regards it as an essential part of the process . |
| 20 | Occasionally when she was wearing this she had a trick of lifting it like wings , or ruffling it as if it was her real plumage , and she 'd declare : ‘ My dears , I am preparing for The Flight — into Egypt , to the islands , to the New World — who knows ! ’ |
| 21 | Yeltsin had said at a press conference after the Alma Ata meeting that " we do not want to follow the tradition which has taken shape since 1917 of burying each [ former ] head and leader of the state and subsequently reburying him or regarding him as a criminal " . |
| 22 | You can ask them either just as they are or use them as a basis for formulating questions that are particularly related to the job for which you are being interviewed . |
| 23 | Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings . |
| 24 | Rob Grunsell encourages teachers to adapt his materials to their own needs or use them as a source of ideas for devising their own training . |
| 25 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 26 | You can then either read it as a standard newspaper or use it as a database to search for particular articles . |
| 27 | Two choices exist , either to sell the material for scrap or use it as a substitute . |
| 28 | At the end of it all , the journalists are free to report what they have been told without question , they may seek to check the information they have been given with other sources or use it as background on a later occasion . |
| 29 | Or , or use it as scrape . |
| 30 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |