Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty six ( 46% ) of the 56 respondents described their pain as a minor nuisance , 23 ( 41% ) as moderately severe , and six ( 11% ) as interfering with their activities . |
| 2 | The judge described their crimes as a campaign of economic sabotage . |
| 3 | Repealers were particularly intolerant of unreformed and unrepentant women , adopting a punitive attitude towards them and explaining their resistance as a product of the demoralizing effects of forced medical inspection . |
| 4 | " Most people have an affection for trees and think they 're beautiful and necessary to the landscape and so on , but it 's important that we also realise their value as a national asset . |
| 5 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 6 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 7 | One old couple who were village publicans used their house as a shelter for ‘ a very composite family ’ which included a daughter who did the pub cooking , a brother , and a son who used two rooms as his tailor 's shop . |
| 8 | And another thing we know is that when word finally arrives back to Clonahoe or Ballyeen that they can build their road as a relief work , there 'll be no one there fit to supervise it . ’ |
| 9 | We are particularly concerned about the anxiety and deprivation that result when people lose their jobs as a result of the changing international climate . |
| 10 | The measures are designed to reinforce each other to produce a combined accident reduction which will make their introduction as a package cost-effective , even in areas with scattered accidents where normal ‘ value for money ’ criteria for accident prevention treatment are not met . |
| 11 | She gave other useful pointers regarding service , training and other staff matters that have obviously helped Leeds branch in maintaining their position as a highly effective new business unit . |
| 12 | In higher education an estimated 400,000 students were expected to lose their grants as a result of a proposal to target the federal student grant fund of $5,800 million , a rise of 7 per cent , at students from families with incomes lower than $10,000 . |
| 13 | Under new proposals expected to be brought in by the IAAF , starters are likely to lose their power as the final judges of what is a false start . |
| 14 | The Building Societies Association assured the Government at the time that , when the rule was introduced , there would be no reason to expect people to lose their homes as a result and they have not done so . |
| 15 | In particular their student team 's victory over New Zealand Universities at the Students ' World Cup in France in 1988 announced their birth as a rugby nation . |
| 16 | Imaging their amazement as the single peach on the tree grows to enormous proportions and James climbs aboard for the journey of a lifetime . |
| 17 | The intention is that the members of the household should have an opportunity to communicate with each other , to sense their unity as a family , and to enjoy time set aside from the normal rush of daily life . |
| 18 | It offers advice to both those considering using their home as a base , as well as those who 've already made the break . |
| 19 | Labour-only sub-contractors tend to operate in small gangs , using their home as an office or base . |
| 20 | Producer Lord Grade wants Lowe to star as a writer whose aunts are using their basement as a mortuary . |
| 21 | The Indian Government sent as a gift pieces of twelve different kinds of coloured marble which the architect deployed throughout the house , using their colours as a focus for the interior decoration . |
| 22 | Yet they could hardly express their resentment in terms of thwarted personal ambition and so preferred to see their fate as a result of ideological changes in the Party . |
| 23 | Industrialists exploited their workers , and western nations exploited the rest of the world — but those who succeeded in the struggle were only too willing to see their success as the driving force of progress . |
| 24 | Those less wealthy are forced to see their training as a means of gaining work abroad , so as to repay education loans or to pay for the schooling of a younger member of the family . |
| 25 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 26 | As we have already suggested , Jesus 's brother James , and the other members of the Nazarean hierarchy in Jerusalem , seem to have regarded their evangelising as a form of recruitment — a means whereby an army for the nation of Israel might be created . |
| 27 | Now that the US , the IMF 's largest shareholder , has agreed a quota increase the main dispute is a wrangle over rankings in the IMF hierachy with the Japanese demanding their place as an economic superpower be fully recognised . |
| 28 | The advertising is in black-and-white and is authentically ‘ French ’ — concentrating on moments or happenings in which French people , young and old , are enjoying their Janneau as a part of their everyday life — relaxed with that indefinable French quality of style which instils ordinary events with a particular panache , whether it be over a meal or simple as a complement to civilised living at any time of day . |
| 29 | The Montanist prophets required everyone to acknowledge their utterances as the true work of the Holy Spirit . |
| 30 | According to his findings , 53% of buyers made their purchases as a result of instore promotions . |