Example sentences of "[noun] [pn reflx] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore representative democracy presents itself as the best compromise . |
| 2 | It 's a wonder any parts are left at all , what with debts of £6.5m and Sir John Hall still waging the boardroom battle that has very nearly claimed the club itself as the ultimate , ironic , victim . |
| 3 | Both local associations pointed unambiguously to slavery itself as the disruptive factor ; only with emancipation would ‘ a Population of turbulent Slaves [ be ] converted into one of peaceable Colonists ’ . |
| 4 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 5 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 6 | These were , first , our freedom as responsible moral agents , for the ‘ ought ’ of the categorical imperative implies the ‘ can ’ of our ability to obey it or to refuse to obey it ; second , immortality , which brings with it the prospect of reward and punishment , and the advance towards higher and fuller good than can be attained in this life ; third , God himself as the supreme Good , the ultimate guarantor of the moral order of the universe . |
| 7 | Four elements of interest and influence need to be weighed against each other , namely the effect of the parent as the educator who is helped by the school , the school as the institutional teacher who is helped by the parent , the school as the manager and decider ( with the parent being kept informed ) and the school itself as the only " real " provider of education . |
| 8 | The object of parody in Between is not so much theories and belief systems themselves as the linguistic manoeuvres by which they attempt to convince . |