Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [v-ing] [verb] " 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 | These followed two decades of consolidation of the ‘ stable democracies ’ in the Western capitalist world , and of the presumably ‘ stable autocracies ’ in the socialist world of Eastern Europe , as well as the emergence of a ‘ Third World ’ ( including many newly independent states ) which was conceived by most Western political scientists as having embarked upon a process of gradual ‘ modernization ’ and ‘ industrialization ’ . |
| 5 | In his day Hamilton was recognized by discriminating judges as having contributed decisively to the emergence of the new naturalistic style of English landscape , and his guidance was sought by his friends for such outstanding creations as Stourhead , Bowood , Hagley , and Holland Park . |
| 6 | Soviet propaganda had been trying , since 1946 , to portray the Western powers as wanting to divide Germany . |
| 7 | Similarly , on June 29th 1970 , the same newspaper reported Portuguese troops as having crossed the border from Angola in order to kidnap the inhabitants of a remote Zambian village . |
| 8 | 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 . |