Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is clearly not possible to restore it as a conduit care , the same external effect will be provided by the use of re-chargeable batteries with a replica truck and control gear . |
| 2 | But it is also possible to see it as an attempt to formulate the way in which the sliding incompatibility of the two can only be perceived through an ‘ internal distantiation ’ in which the problem of that ‘ relation ’ is enacted by its relation , in the sense of the telling of a story — which is how we get history . |
| 3 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 4 | Can I come with you ? ’ by people who were keen to see what happened and who were prepared to treat it as a spectator sport . |
| 5 | So it 's , it 's wrong to see it as a centre local conflict as much as a conflict between the states about public goods , public projects and er and various kinds of freebies . |
| 6 | It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ? |
| 7 | Is it adequate to see it as an accommodation to existing educational structures , as Layton does ? |
| 8 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 9 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 10 | Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account |
| 11 | But do you agree that we should put diplomatic pressure that George Bush should , the Europeans should , Douglas Hurd should , and say look guys whatever you do , if it , though were prepared to recognise you as an independent state , do n't take it out on the Russians ? |
| 12 | It is easier to understand it as an attempt to move away from something already characteristic of the community than as an attempt to move towards some outside idealization ( compare my comments on avoidance of stigma in Chapter 2.6 , above ) . |
| 13 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 15 | Henry 's anti-papalism was based on the belief that the pope had wrongfully usurped the spiritual and temporal power which had traditionally belonged to the kings of England , and while he therefore rejected the pope 's claim to jurisdiction in England , he was prepared to regard him as the rightful Bishop of Rome . |
| 16 | Indeed , many of John 's contemporaries were prepared to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 17 | With mild sciatica , it 's sensible to regard it as a warning and be very careful about how you bend and lift . |
| 18 | It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her . |
| 19 | It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It made it impossible to use it as a building never mind as a church . ’ |
| 21 | Nor can I feel that the far finer E flat Symphony has much to commend it as a performance , beyond its solid assurance and resilient rhythm . |
| 22 | The Wentwood experience as described in this monograph has much to commend it as a means of enabling people with quite severe learning disabilities to take their part in ‘ normal ’ middle class life ; but as the authors themselves say , ‘ We will not succeed in this ( developing potential for growing as a person ) by concentrating on making people better functioning conglomerates of various skills only ’ ( p. 28 ) . |
| 23 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 24 | Once we are allowed simply to postulate organized complexity , if only the organized complexity of the DNA/ protein replicating engine , it is relatively easy to invoke it as a generator of yet more organized complexity . |
| 25 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 26 | The fact that ‘ She ’ appears to those privileged to see her as a veiled figure and that her lustrous orbs , dazzling limbs and perfect ankles are revealed with tantalising slowness , has a rather different effect on today 's readers than it no doubt had when the book was first published , very nearly a century ago , in 1887 , to be greeted with a storm of ecstasy or alternatively of appalled disapproval , which lasted for many decades . |
| 27 | Reading the plan it is hard to see it as the centrepiece of what was billed as the world 's first green election , in September 1989 . |
| 28 | Well , how about one or two lace patterns , for example , bed jackets and cardigans for those elderly and bedridden friends , something really pretty to give them as a gift . |
| 29 | For once in her life she was grateful for the surge of anger welling up inside her , glad to use it as a defence , even though in her heart she knew it was directed not at Dane but at herself . |
| 30 | I am privileged to count you as a dear friend . |