Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a very early stage in my career I learned that a sympathetic response on my part to the child 's needs within the family setting made my work as a classroom teacher considerably easier . |
| 2 | Dorian , you changed my life as an artist from the moment when I met you . |
| 3 | When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies . |
| 4 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 5 | Osaka maintained its importance as a financial , commercial and industrial centre , but despite a population of over 1.5 million in 1920 was still dwarfed by Tokyo , which was not only the locus of a highly centralized national administration but attracted financial , commercial , industrial , educational and cultural activities as well . |
| 6 | Only the Foreign Ministry , still occupied by Serrano Suñer , retained its position as a pro-Falangist stronghold , for the continued dominance of the Axis in the European war advised maintaining a pro-Axis stance in external affairs . |
| 7 | However , the PCI retained its position as the second-largest party . |
| 8 | In elections to the 183-seat Nationalrat ( lower house of parliament ) on Oct. 7 the Socialist Party ( SPÖ ) retained its position as the largest single party . |
| 9 | The most significant political event of the 12 months to June 1991 was the October 1990 general election in which the SPÖ retained its position as the largest single party , the ÖVP registered its worst result since 1945 , and the main beneficiary was the FPÖ [ see p. 37785 ] . |
| 10 | Thus Foxton retained its importance as a place of special interest to canal people , and reinforced its reputation by becoming the site for one of the oddest , most technologically ingenious and most spectacular pieces of engineering in the whole canal system . |
| 11 | Twenty six ( 46% ) of the 56 respondents described their pain as a minor nuisance , 23 ( 41% ) as moderately severe , and six ( 11% ) as interfering with their activities . |
| 12 | The judge described their crimes as a campaign of economic sabotage . |
| 13 | It described her marriage as the ‘ most famous and most disgraced ’ in the world . |
| 14 | She described her protest as a " fast to the death " , but abandoned her hunger strike on May 25 after an appeal to desist by Cardinal Jaime Sin , the Archbishop of Manila . |
| 15 | Several legal experts doubted its viability as a test case , however , because of uncertainties about the application of constitutional rights in the territories . |
| 16 | Other responses that seemed sympathetic to Mannheim 's perspective doubted its role as a foundation for sociological work . |
| 17 | The French government described its policy as a " goodwill gesture " . |
| 18 | Havelock Wilson regarded its collapse as a direct consequence of shipowner hostility but the true situation was certainly more complex than this . |
| 19 | Tina regarded her mother as a kind of insurance policy and her house as a bolthole . |
| 20 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 21 | Elizabeth never married but used her spinsterhood as a diplomatic bate — Robert Dudley , the Earl of Leicester , was very close and , after his death , his stepson , the Earl of Essex , became close , but he was executed for treason when it was learned that he had entered into a conspiracy . |
| 22 | Among the revelations will be of the time Cecil Parkinson swore at her in a Cabinet meeting , Kenneth Clarke telling how she used her femininity as a weapon in meetings , and Norman Tebbit and Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten talking about the horrors concealed in that famous handbag . |
| 23 | She used her religion as a way of not ever speaking for herself . |
| 24 | Instead he used her remark as the perfect occasion for a quarrel . |
| 25 | ‘ The problem of women is all that is marvellous and troubling in the world ’ sighed Andre Breton in the second Surrealist manifesto of 1929 ; and just as the predominantly male membership saw woman as their muse , the fueller of their fantasies and liberators of their imaginations , so they used her body as a vessel and vehicle for their wildest and often dark plumbings of the subconscious . |
| 26 | She says they used her orchard as a toilet , and their property was invaded night and day . |
| 27 | Most reports of this incident underlined Mrs White 's loss , or used her son as a metaphor for the ‘ death of hope ’ in a precinct riddled with drugs . |
| 28 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 29 | One old couple who were village publicans used their house as a shelter for ‘ a very composite family ’ which included a daughter who did the pub cooking , a brother , and a son who used two rooms as his tailor 's shop . |
| 30 | He listed his experience as a fourteen-year-old ‘ irregular ’ in Ireland and his knowledge of the ‘ rudiments of Musketry , Bayonet Fighting and Squad Drill ’ which he had acquired during his four months of under-age service at Worcester . |