Example sentences of "[to-vb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | The first time I went back to a lake where I used to go as a child . |
| 3 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 4 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 5 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 6 | Perhaps we could arrange to go as a foursome ; we 'd have no trouble getting a table if I make the arrangements . ’ |
| 7 | Neither would Souness want to go as a failure . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't got the money just to go as a traveller , and there are n't that many jobs abroad . |
| 9 | ‘ What a splendid idea to go as a Gnome ! |
| 10 | and I 'd like to go as an army chef or an army mechanic |
| 11 | He may profess not to enjoy it , but Pitt has an instinctive understanding that playing up the teen idol image will help him get where he wants to go as an actor . |
| 12 | He had only a few hundred yards to go as the house he was planning to visit was also in the Vomero but he did not wish to arrive with perspiration on his forehead or dust on his shoes . |
| 13 | As they crossed to the supermarket they had to wait as an assistant wearing a jacket over his uniform wheeled a long line of trolleys from a loading bay into the store . |
| 14 | But I depressed his chest with my palms every three seconds In the old-fashioned way , willing the dog to breathe as the eyes still stared at nothing . |
| 15 | It is recognised , however , that it may be appropriate to include as an element of the CPE programme , time spent on the development of interpersonal or management skills . |
| 16 | It is common to include as the purchaser 's responsibility such items as fencing , new roadworks , removal and reconstruction of septic tanks , connection of existing properties to new drains , and construction of garages . |
| 17 | The use of the mouth to caress and suck the genitals of either sex is more likely to produce disgust in some people , and is treated by many who indulge in oral sex as a ‘ problem ’ , an activity they have learned to see as a deviation from normal sexual activity . |
| 18 | Did he ever come not merely to see as a possibility but actually to possess a conviction of what can be called the benign indifference of the universe ? |
| 19 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 20 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 21 | The power of the pope to depose an unsatisfactory emperor goes back to the Dictatus Pape of Gregory VII — a power which Innocent preferred to see as a right to inspect , approve and crown , but there is little doubt that it was important in the papal moral armoury . |
| 22 | I had to see as the wagons in the coals as it shifting , not falling off you see . |
| 23 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 24 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 25 | Edberg defeated Cash in a quality final which many , I suspect , would have preferred to see as the final itself . |
| 26 | While weighing up the merits of the posts of legal advisor to the Girls Public Day School Trust versus running a legal advice centre in a South London Mental Hospital , she was invited to sit as a Judge on the South-East Circuit and then , of course , her mind was made up . |
| 27 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 28 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 29 | I got him to sit as a model . |
| 30 | In parliament the position seemed worse now that the Unionist leaders sat on the government front bench while their followers continued to sit as the opposition . |