Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 3 | She sounds an emotional mess , and is using you as a substitute for her lost love . |
| 4 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 5 | ‘ How difficult it is to see you as an enemy . ’ |
| 6 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 7 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 8 | A good way to understand The Lord of the Rings in its full complexity is to see it as an attempt to reconcile two views of evil , both old , both authoritative , both living , each seemingly contradicted by the other . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 10 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Indeed , the identification of meaning with the material form of language ( words , sentences , speech ) is a precondition of ordinary language use ; to use language is to trust it as a tool that expresses meaning . |
| 13 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 14 | To define the literary text as a structure is to view it as a set of Saussurean signs ( or as a single sign , as Mukařovský ( 1970 : 69ff. ) suggested ) , in which both signifiers and signifieds are governed by a single complex system of relationships . |
| 15 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 16 | UTV and Channel 4 now have their own separate sales arrangements in Dublin , and UTV is pushing itself as an all-Ireland TV medium . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1983 gas , coal and nuclear power accounted for 16% , 9% and 1% respectively of energy demand and it is gas which is establishing itself as the most significant oil alternative . |
| 19 | Consequently the company is touting it as the first hub to support seamless migration from direct-attached to Token Ring-attached devices . |
| 20 | In bringing the case , the Turkish government is presenting itself as a great ally of archaeologists . |
| 21 | Although 70% of the company 's revenue was from Unix in the last fiscal year , Progress defended its support of the AS/400 : IBM is refocusing it as an open platform and database server which means it can be combined with Unix , commented Wark . |
| 22 | But that same reader is likely to resent and disbelieve the same insight when it is told him as a fact by an author . |
| 23 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 24 | CNAPS stands for Connected Network of Adaptive ProcessorS , pointing to the fact that the system applies neural network technology , although as neural networks are less fashionable than parallel systems at the moment , the company is describing it as the lowest priced massively parallel system on the market . |
| 25 | Now it is selling itself as the natural arena for developing companies in the new Länder . |
| 26 | The ‘ filmic ’ way to shoot a scene is to record it as a series of separate shots taken at different distances and angles . |
| 27 | Your only hope is to use him as a shield against the rest of the gang as you break through their line . |
| 28 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 29 | The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative . |
| 30 | Perhaps the least contentious way of describing the family in contemporary society is to characterize it as a ‘ relatively autonomous ’ institution . |