Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a question may be raised as to just what we mean when we think of ourselves as plunged by the twentieth century into a chaos of relativism . |
| 2 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 3 | And while he says that he is prepared to go on doing musicals until he has one that really works , he would probably not agree with that picture of himself as fighting against the tide . |
| 4 | Thirdly , a later section grandly describes itself as engaged in the ‘ [ r ] epeal of statutory powers of arrest without warrant or order ’ . |
| 5 | v. Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food the Court of Appeal , while regarding itself as bound by the view that Article 86 gave rise to a claim for damages , held that another directly applicable provision , Article 30 ( dealing with quantitative restrictions on imports ) attracted only the remedy of judicial review . |
| 6 | It soon became clear that the occupation , while formally an allied one as represented in the Far Eastern Commission ( FEC ) and the Allied Council for Japan ( ACJ ) , was effectively controlled by the United States . |
| 7 | The formula was clearly a successful one as proved by the high survival rate and healthy condition of all four penguin species . |
| 8 | I can not bear to think of her as laid in the dark grave . ’ |
| 9 | I wonder what Ministry will provoke in the kids here inside this Berlin dope den — are they as consumed by the same perverse taste for blood as myself ? |
| 10 | Moreover , Avitus of Vienne in a letter to Gundobad describes him as weeping over the deaths of his brothers . |
| 11 | Sam Torrance is not in the slightest bothered that his super-long putter which he wields under his chin makes some describe him as looking like the Dyna-Rod man . |
| 12 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu . |
| 14 | The " Green Movement " is not necessarily the friend of religion — it can displace it as understood within the great religious traditions , giving rise to a neo-paganism which challenges them . |
| 15 | Given that object recognition is a categorical process , in that one does n't recognize each individual chair one sees but identifies it as belonging to the same category as other chairs one has seen , this suggests that the inferotemporal cortex has a major role to play in object recognition . |
| 16 | The motion which I am anxious to put before the full plenary session of the European Parliament is in fact a motion to ban lead from petrol completely , not merely to reduce it as stated in the article . , |
| 17 | The only way the trust can be given effect is by construing it as charged on the intestate heir in favour of some other person . |
| 18 | b ) Place strip 1 on your desk and carefully put the ¼ piece , from the second strip , beside it as shown on the side . |
| 19 | Now work out the following by forming an equation and solving it as shown in the last example . |
| 20 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 21 | It is suggested that whichever phrase is used , the court would be reluctant to construe it as imposing on the parties a positive obligation to negotiate . |
| 22 | In view of the approach taken by the courts to this implied term it is probably fair to regard it as imposing on the seller a separate obligation to pass to the buyer a good title to the goods . |
| 23 | They perceive it as standing for the interest of society as a whole , and are constrained by this ideological view to tolerate its infringements of their sectarian interests , providing that these are not too severe . |
| 24 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 25 | The measure was not the subject of a specific UN resolution , although its proponents saw it as coming within the scope of general principles of international humanitarian law , and as providing a safer environment for Western reconnaissance aircraft to monitor Iraqi compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 688 of April 1991 against " repression of the Iraqi civilian population " [ see p. 38127 ] . |
| 26 | I 'd never thought of myself as working at the NME because I was in awe of it ; I used to read it all the time , Tony Tyler , Charles Shaar Murray and people like that . |
| 27 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 28 | Granted that words have a certain elasticity of meaning , the general rule remains that the judges regard themselves as bound by the words of a statute when these words clearly govern the situation before the court . |
| 29 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 30 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |