Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one stage , Iraq was seen by foreign observers as seeking to bring Iran to the negotiating table by force . |
| 2 | At times it has behaved more like a cancer-prevention than an environmental agency , making such scientifically dubious decisions as wanting to remove asbestos from school buildings and to ban substances with a microscopically small risk of causing cancer . |
| 3 | Is it adequate at all to try in this fashion to interpret religion as a means to an end , and to define that end in progressive humanistic terms as having to do with the elevation and betterment of human society ? |
| 4 | Soviet propaganda had been trying , since 1946 , to portray the Western powers as wanting to divide Germany . |
| 5 | Their appeal was that they were conceived in Keynesian terms as helping to reduce the extent to which measures to alleviate unemployment , in a largely fully employed economy , created inflation . |