Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pn reflx] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 2 | It contains religious admonition despite announcing itself as a secular ordinance , and many chapters are about the promotion of Christianity and the welfare of the church , while some of the secular material reflects the ecclesiastical desire for justice , public order and the protection of the weak . |
| 3 | A Devil , mischievous , destructive but lovable , appears and contrives by various ruses , such as that of disguising himself as a beautiful girl , to amuse himself in causing havoc and death among the soldiers and finally , by playing furiously upon his violin , to force the villagers to dance to death . |
| 4 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 5 | But senior party figures will privately be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 6 | But senior party figures privately will be far from unhappy ; a Labour victory would have destroyed their long-term goal of establishing themselves as the main opposition to the Conservatives . |
| 7 | When he was at school , Gazzer 's graffiti had been part of his act : another way of establishing himself as a ‘ character ’ , of making his mates laugh . |
| 8 | That too is why we welcome the appointment by the Government of consultants to examine the feasibility of privatisation as an important step along the path of establishing ourselves as an independent business . |
| 9 | THE development of Britain 's atomic power programme could be resurrected under plans being considered by British Nuclear Fuels which is looking at the feasibility of establishing itself as a major player in the post-privatisation electricity market . |
| 10 | Government critics predicted that violence would now escalate , arguing that Fujimori had played into the hands of Sendero , which had long wished to provoke a military coup in the hope of establishing itself as the sole democratic force opposed to a repressive government . |
| 11 | During the months of recuperation and the months of rediscovering himself as a changed person , a quick-tempered , irritable person , nervous and hypochondriacal , Tom thought of sex and love as remote concepts that were not for him , that were ridiculous for him to consider . |
| 12 | And Chancellor Norman Lamont was last night accused of sunning himself as the economy sinks into deeper gloom . |
| 13 | By then ‘ Tixier ’ had taken his anti-Gaullist crusade to the point of running himself as a presidential candidate . |
| 14 | ‘ My solo record was a way of finding myself , a way almost of validating myself as a musician . |
| 15 | Just turned 21 , Jeanne had sacrificed any hope of fulfilling herself as an artist to Modigliani . |
| 16 | Given the widespread feelings of disillusionment abroad in 1976 , Carter 's strategy of offering himself as a new broom was electorally well judged , but if he impressed the voters , his relentless and sanctimonious moralizing irritated and alienated legislators whose support he would eventually need . |
| 17 | Yet before it does so it destroys much else , and the devastation at the end of King Lear is a sufficient proof of the destructiveness of hypocrisy , once it is believed , Trusting hypocrites such as these is like offering oneself as a test-bed for the cultivation of some deadly bacillus . |
| 18 | Youth training can act as a form of ‘ moral rescue ’ from the penalty of unemployment , in which trainees perceive their transition into training itself as a form of moral superiority : |
| 19 | The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so . |
| 20 | Unless it does so , however , it is inevitable that , in presenting itself as a general theory of conduct , psychology will come to embody a certain idea of man . |
| 21 | It is evident that he has no difficulty either in describing himself as a Dvaitin or Dualist , or as a follower of Viśi ādvaita or qualified non-Dualism , namely , non-Dualism with distinctions . |
| 22 | This may be one of the reasons why Gandhi has no difficulty in describing himself as an Advaitin or non-Dualist , though to what extent it is accurate to regard Gandhi as an Advaitin is another matter . |
| 23 | Western philosophy coincides with the disclosure of the other where the other , in manifesting itself as a being , loses its alterity . |
| 24 | In the last analysis Christian rulers wanted the Church 's approval and support and Innocent had gone one further step in identifying himself as the representative of the final arbiter and judge of man . |
| 25 | The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’ |
| 26 | In ( 36 ) the adjective former does not qualify the properties , as such , implied by the use of the word king ; the sentence does not mention any entity that has characteristics formerly typical of kings — such as regarding oneself as the owner of one 's subjects , perhaps , or believing that one is of divine lineage . |
| 27 | In the end the partner bought at a knock-down price , without naming himself as the buyer until the offer had been accepted . |
| 28 | Elek was keen on establishing himself as a quality publisher and commissioned work from other artists beside Minton — Edward Burra , Anthony Gross , Fred Uhlman , William Scott , Edward Bawden and Keith Vaughan . |
| 29 | The goal was the perfect illustration of the reasons why Manchester United are close to establishing themselves as the country 's outstanding side . |
| 30 | Frequently the French company seeks to take over second tier United States enterprises already established in Europe with a view to establishing itself as a mainstream European producer . |