Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process . |
| 2 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 3 | Such a story could be viewed cynically as making a virtue out of necessity and that is indeed what it does do . |
| 4 | West Germany has been put forward as having a culture that generates detachment . |
| 5 | The so-called " bare infinitive " will be analysed here as evoking a perfective view of the realization of an event , i.e. the image of an event as unfolding in time from its beginning to its end in the case of an action-like event or as actualizing its full lexical content at each instant of its existence in the case of a state-like one . |