Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could almost feel the internal battle raging within her , and for a long moment could do nothing but gaze at the stage , torn between seeing it as a hostile no-man's-land and home . |
| 2 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 3 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 4 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
| 5 | Although there are problems in directly transferring Belbin 's analysis into educational institutions there does appear to be the basis of using it as a means of managing the issues identified at the start of this section . |
| 6 | Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again . |
| 7 | The possibility of using it as a bypass to the village was discussed with the Ministry of Defence in 1985 . |
| 8 | The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned . |
| 9 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 10 | But when you have a community centre like street that is which a joint you can see the value of of of maintaining it as a a paid for as a a a erm and be substantial volunteer input that exists . |
| 11 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 12 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 13 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 14 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 15 | He said it was a matter of accepting it as a capital project but he would see that Coun Jackson received the information he had requested . |
| 16 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
| 17 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 18 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 19 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 20 | Workers at the Heeley Urban Farm in Sheffield have spent several days collecting seeds from these flowers with the intention of growing them as a crop , eventually to sell the seed as an urban flower-mix . |
| 21 | One even made the mistake of describing it as a signal to ‘ alert others in the pack ’ , as if cats are group-hunting animals like wolves . |
| 22 | He now has a way of displaying it as a real space-filling 3-D image . |
| 23 | They were married in the Guards ' Chapel , a stone 's throw from Buckingham Palace , on July 4 1973 , and one member of the close-knit circle of Camilla 's friends said : ‘ She believed Charles had lost interest and had no intention of considering her as a wife . |
| 24 | But after her refusal , Carol has received a letter from the council saying it has ‘ discharged itself of the responsibility of rehousing her as a homeless person ’ . |
| 25 | A perceived event then is not in the same relation to the act of perceiving it as an inferred event is to the act of inferring it . |
| 26 | I shall therefore take the liberty of treating her as a character , not utterly different in kind , though of course belonging to a very different social species , from Vic Wilcox . |
| 27 | Kaplan explains that the primary impetus to his project was the sense that modern interpretations of the Adagietto have strayed from the composer 's intentions with regard to what he calls ‘ the current fashion of treating it as a sombre movement played at a funereal pace . ’ |
| 28 | It is all too easy to make the mistake of treating it as a purely physical problem that can be overcome by renewal , as was discovered by costly experience in the USA during the 1960s and in Britain a decade later . |
| 29 | In a 1985 case , however , the High Court granted an injunction against a health authority which was unwilling to continue employing the plaintiff , despite regarding him as a competent worker , because of his personality clash with a more senior colleague . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's got every chance of making it as a player . ’ |