Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
2 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
3 | It devalues me as an artist , painting is WORK , just because I 'm a woman . |
4 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
5 | Arnold in no way undervalues her as an artist . |
6 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
7 | His answer is ringingly clear , and firmly places him as an empiricist . |
8 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
9 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
10 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
11 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
12 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
13 | The parody of deviant sex , far from presupposing and ratifying an original natural sexuality , exposes it as a fiction . |
14 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
15 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |
16 | He describes them as an investment , but critics describe the paintings as worthless rubbish . |
17 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
18 | Flip through the wacky but informative manual ( which casts you as a movie director ) and you 'll find that the first three programs let you construct 20-frame icon-sized movies . |
19 | An inscription in the Bodleian copy of her Poems describes her as a widow . |
20 | Although the Office describes her as a recluse at the time of her cure , there is a discrepancy here between the date at which she was enclosed ( 1348 ) and the fact that several years elapsed between the cure and the relapse of her illness when Rolle died , since many manuscripts attest to Rolle 's death in 1348 . |
21 | Charles Handy describes him as a man of immense power and influence , but ‘ One who would not exploit it ’ . |
22 | the smoking of tobacco will reduce the money supply in a society which uses it as a medium of exchange . |
23 | Quigley ( 1979 ) confirms this and uses it as a basis for examining alternative language environments . |
24 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
25 | It is the fact of being the written form which establishes it as the standard . |
26 | The title of a recent book on structuralism describes it as a revolution — ; La révolution structurale ( Benoist 1976 ) — and it is in this perspective that the phenomenon is best approached . |
27 | Ratcliffe ( 1988 ) describes it as a technique used in rehabilitating people with memory loss , confusion and time-place-person disorientation which adds a humanistic element to care , and discusses in some detail how it affects communicating . |
28 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
29 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
30 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |