Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pn reflx] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest . |
| 2 | Brin Weare fooled the enemy by disguising himself as a priest . |
| 3 | There was also Captain Hawes , another ex-serviceman , who was finally executed for robberies on the moor ; Whitney , the butcher , who was feared for his savagery and barbarism ; Captain Stafford , a Londoner who found fame on the moor , and Thomas Simpson ( Old Mob ) who , although hideously ugly , managed to evade capture regularly by disguising himself as a woman . |
| 4 | There are other meanings to be drawn from this first sonnet , of course , but what is clear is that the poetic sequence of Astrophil and Stella may be seen announcing itself as a failure , a success , both , or neither . |
| 5 | It does this by disguising itself as an aphid , in order to avoid being detected by the ants . |
| 6 | This implies that the vendor is representing itself as an insurer whereas the real claim is the full value of the damages suffered by the breach of contract ; ( d ) ensuring the purchaser acknowledges it has not relied on any representation other than those incorporated in the sale agreement and that it shall not have any right to rescind the sale agreement . |
| 7 | MRS BODY 'S mother-in-law , otherwise known as Tracey 's Gran , dies in the middle of Neighbours , revealing herself as a woman of sensibility . |
| 8 | Eleanor , disguising herself as a man , attempted to join them , but was captured and spent the rest of Henry II 's reign in prison . |
| 9 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 10 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 11 | I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’ |
| 12 | For more than an hour he had crouched on the floor , bracing himself as the speed changes of the train and the unevenness of the track destroyed the momentum of his painstaking work . |
| 13 | All these , we know , are inversions of the truth , yet by using himself as a reference point , Iago can convince people to the stage where they accept his view unquestioningly . |
| 14 | Therefore , the enquirer who is using himself as a research instrument needs to be as aware as possible and committed to becoming more aware of his own biases , values and his reasons for holding the conceptual framework he does . |
| 15 | In the end the partner bought at a knock-down price , without naming himself as the buyer until the offer had been accepted . |
| 16 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 17 | Well can one imagine Knobelsdorf , swept along by ambition , seeing himself as the organiser of victory at Verdun , exalted to become the Ludendorff of the Western Front . |
| 18 | Seeing himself as the peacemaker among his fellow monarchs , and adopting as his motto Beati Pacifici ( Blessed are the Peacemakers ) , he repeatedly refused to commit himself wholeheartedly to the Protestant cause . |
| 19 | Democratic optimists say Clinton will now shift gears , promoting himself as the candidate of energy and change against Bush 's stuck-in-the-mud , colourlessly pragmatic , status quo conservatism . |
| 20 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 21 | John Arthur Johnson was born in 1878 and worked on a milk wagon , in livery stables , in bakers ' shops , at Galveston docks and in various other occupations while establishing himself as a boxer of some distinction . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 24 | A market participant with no initial assets perceives the possibility of making large profits by buying up all the available supply of a given resource , and then establishing himself as the monopolist producer of a particular commodity . |
| 25 | China 's Gansu Institute for Natural Energy , the only institute permitted by Chinese authorities to design solar energy equipment , is establishing itself as a training centre for solar energy technicians from African countries . |
| 26 | 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 : |
| 27 | Virginia Woolf , in her Bloomsbury circle , could hardly have been closer to the metropolitan heart of England , yet she , too , found a foreignness within it , deliberately defining herself as an alien . |
| 28 | I had again beaten the top sprinters of Europe , firmly establishing myself as the continent 's number one . |
| 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 | 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 . |