Example sentences of "[v-ing] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , although there is a section devoted to ‘ Images of Love ’ ( some of its most fascinating and impressive poems are by women , whom we 're used to seeing as the silent objects of love ) , it is only one among many . |
| 2 | We long ago ceased to enjoy hanging as a public spectacle . |
| 3 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 4 | There were to be no less than 2,000 uniformed Blackshirts , marching and parading as the advance guard of revolution . |
| 5 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 6 | It is not quite so confiding as the white-tufted , but is a charming bird nonetheless . |
| 7 | All the evidence suggests that early involvement in choral singing can awaken an interest which lasts for a lifetime , and church musicians have always seen school singing as a natural preliminary to the distinctive tradition of Anglican music . |
| 8 | Garfield has described twigging as the inexorable result of realignments in the organization of disciplines 67 . |
| 9 | Garfield has described twigging as the inexorable result of realignments in the organization of disciplines . |
| 10 | The result was that as an adult I was still reacting as a four-year-old child . |
| 11 | One way of using it , as we have already discovered , is to treat the pain of a funeral gathering as a technical exercise . |
| 12 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 13 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 14 | In a shadowy corner of the cook tent , Ngo Van Loc crouched beside an upturned packing case that he was using as a makeshift writing-table . |
| 15 | This is a second series , using as a conversational resource a different set of modules ; these modules are designed to obtain information which can be used to plot out speakers ' interpersonal network relationships both within and outside the neighbourhood . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , Reading Council were lashing together a municipal PR exercise , using as a dodgy pretext the 400th anniversary of the destruction of the local abbey by Henry VIII . |
| 17 | interest group models , including as an important special case Marxist models based on class interests . |
| 18 | Some licensees have seen catering as a profitable sideline and invested their own cash and other resources into developing it , while others have either not been interested or have lacked the capital to do so , and have accordingly only provided minimum facilities . |
| 19 | The second chapter in the section turns to the specific application of consumer targeting as a detailed example of market segmentation in practice . |
| 20 | In favourable situations they form nuclei for small communities of microflora and fauna , their debris accumulating as an organic substrate that fosters mosses and angiosperms . |
| 21 | Such an attitude is , of course , typical of the ‘ oral personality ’ , as classically defined in the annals of psychoanalysis , and I think it is no coincidence that anorexics , who are almost invariably subject to heavily competitive pressures , should choose eating as the focal point for expressing the resulting conflicts . |
| 22 | Displays of police horses , motor cycles , dogs , and dress marching were a dominant image of policing as a uniformed institution in the city . |
| 23 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 24 | It can be argued that the imperfections of the market will become increasingly important after firms have exceeded their ‘ debt capacity ’ and lenders of funds no longer perceive the equity financing as an adequate cushion in the event of liquidation . |
| 25 | Mowbray 's body crashed against the earth , his brains spattering as the sharp , icy cobbles crushed his skull . |
| 26 | He was replaced by Oscar Orbos , the Transport and Communications Secretary , whom Aquino was believed to be cultivating as a possible presidential successor on the expiry of her current term of office in 1992 . |
| 27 | Pairs of multiple step ladders or trestles can be bridged with purpose designed staging as a basic form of scaffolding . |
| 28 | The farmers concentrated upon dairy cattle and sheep and were dependent upon weaving as a second source of income . |
| 29 | All over the camp in wild panic the huts were emptying as the remaining occupants scrambled for the safety of the hills and the Russian frontier beyond . |
| 30 | Blacks ' recent involvement in sport began in the 1950s and continued spasmodically through the next two decades , intensifying as the 1980s approached ; in the spheres in which they opted to compete , many achieved excellence . |