Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For psychologists to accept a behaviour as a form of teaching , they have to be convinced that the behaviour of the mother is intentionally designed to influence the youngsters ’ behaviour . |
| 2 | Leapor 's only way of striking back at her father to whom she was looking for support , was , by this reasoning , to write a poem as a cathartic fantasy . |
| 3 | In those areas where unemployment was endemic , the NUWM was able to establish roots in the community and to establish a legitimacy as a political movement which usually evaded the Communist Party . |
| 4 | Any information provider should seek to establish a reputation as a ‘ trusted source ’ of information . |
| 5 | However , in contrast to some other jurisdictions , the relaxed exclusionary rule does not permit the use of parliamentary material simply to establish a negative as an aid to construction . |
| 6 | In order to exclude a bias as a result of a higher proportion of men being included in the adenocarcinoma group the data were analysed again for male patients only who smoked or drank . |
| 7 | Two months later Gabriel went to the great fair at Casterbridge , hoping to find a job as farm manager . |
| 8 | ‘ I remain convinced … that the House of Commons would regard a decision by your Lordships to use Hansard to construe a statute as a grave step and that the House of Commons may well regret that its views were not sought on such an important matter before your Lordships reached a decision . |
| 9 | The project is currently awaiting a green light from the government in Brasilia — which , aware of the need to counteract a reputation as the world 's ecological villain has given it a favourable hearing . |
| 10 | All the companies I 've spoken to accept an invoice as proof of ownership when it comes to either competitive or normal upgrades . |
| 11 | It will not be enough to define a term as a " condition " or " warranty " , for a court may decide that the parties did not intend any breach of a term labelled a " condition " to give rise to a right to withdraw , and thus disregard the label given to the term by the parties ( Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 12 | Schoolchildren have been asked to design a mural as part of a facelift on a grubby subway in the centre of South Bank between Asda and Nelson Street . |
| 13 | Schoolchildren have been asked to design a mural as part of a facelift on a grubby subway in the centre of South Bank between Asda and Nelson Street . |
| 14 | The flaw of monism is that it tends to view a text as an undifferentiated whole , so that examination of linguistic choices can not be made except on some ad hoc principle . |
| 15 | It is suggested this is comparable to the manner in which the Inland Revenue will use the decision in Furniss v Dawson [ 1984 ] 1 ALL ER to view a transaction as a whole rather than each separate step individually . |
| 16 | Sometimes bad things hung on so it was possible to remember an outing as the day the car broke down rather than the day there was a barbecue on the beach and the party went on until the tide came in . |
| 17 | A second argument was that Britain was entering a low-inflation era , reducing the incentive to buy a house as a hedge against inflation . |
| 18 | But she currently has a steady good income with a reputable model agency and wants to buy a flat as a first time buyer . |
| 19 | Rarely do I see a parent who has decided to buy a book as a present . |
| 20 | It would be impossible to describe all the schemes , and difficult to select a handful as representative of the rest . |
| 21 | THE Government was warned last night to expect a rebuff as the Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel prepared to ballot members on a deal rejected by the five TUC-affiliated unions for ambulance staff . |
| 22 | The difficulty of using this form of patronage whose scarcity could give offence to those who were unlucky is illustrated by the difficulties of the Duke of Montrose and his son , Lord George Graham , in 1739–40 , when Lord George , who hoped to combine a career as a naval officer with membership in the House of Commons , first obtained command of a ship , and was thus enabled to offer places in the line of command to the sons of freeholders in the area of Montrose influence in central Scotland . |
| 23 | We lingered too long in Livadià on the way , by the charming waters of memory and forgetfulness , and were too late to see the sports at Arákhova , with the very old men running to win a lamb as a prize . |
| 24 | These , and other normally useless nuggets of lexical information , have enabled John to win a place as Scotland 's first ever representative at the World Scrabble Championships . |
| 25 | According to some experts , this constitutes proof that the Chinese authorities recognise Islam as a powerful religious force within modern China and may be an attempt to allow Muslims to play a part as a nominally autonomous group within the country . |
| 26 | Research has indicated that police are more likely to perceive an act as delinquent if it occurs in a low-income inner city area . |
| 27 | Economic theory tells us that there are three types of merger , although in practice it is sometimes hard to categorize a merger as a particular type . |
| 28 | If the rulers of Rheged were able to preserve a role as Oswiu 's allies , this may have directed the main thrust of the Bernician attack on British territory at this time towards the Forth . |
| 29 | Sadly the real contents of the phial will have to remain a mystery as the Roman Catholic church adamantly refuses to open the phial for scientific investigation , but as the Archbishop performed the rite last year and said ‘ … no chemist has yet been able to reproduce this phenomenon ’ , the Italian chemists were chuckling . |
| 30 | Early in Chapter One I referred to Marthinus ' expression of regret that education persisted in training pupils to see a stone as a specimen and never for itself , to see the handler of a stone as a classifier of specimens and not as important in himself . |