Example sentences of "as [art] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Habitus is learnt through interactive practices , as the acts of living within a world which is composed of this same order are continually reinforced in different domains . |
| 2 | Trustees in 1 above are generally treated as a wholly separate entity for tax purposes ; in the case of a bare trustee , nomineeship and agency , the acts of those persons will generally be treated as the acts of the beneficial owners or principals . |
| 3 | If , on the other hand , we insist on treating internally compromised statutes as the acts of a single distinct moral agent , then we can condemn them as unprincipled , and we then have a reason for arguing that no official should contribute to his state 's unprincipled acts . |
| 4 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 5 | As we have seen , metaphoric reversibility is figured in the text thematically as the condition of being suspended between ideologies , languages and countries , or as the act of crossing from one to another . |
| 6 | It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way , except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us . |
| 7 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 8 | This is why he calls the object of his study ‘ narrative discourse ’ , which he defines as ‘ the oral or written discourse which undertakes to tell of an event or a series of events ’ , and which he distinguishes from narrative as series of events ( story ) , and narrative as the act of narrating . |
| 9 | The next day the Communist Party denounced the demonstration as the act of pampered adventurists . |
| 10 | At the cathedral square in central Vilnius , it was clear his suicide was being seen by fellow Lithuanians as the act of a martyr . |
| 11 | The Easter rising of 1916 as an act of national liberation , unquestioned in the dominant catholic — nationalist culture from 1922 until well into the 1960s and 1970s , still holds a cherished place in the hearts of the majority of the people . |
| 12 | Mr Ramaphosa said that the prisoners ' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill by Mr de Klerk , but as a reflection of the ‘ dismal ’ failure of ‘ the apartheid regime ’ to emasculate the will of the black majority . |
| 13 | As an act 's appearance fees become higher , the agent may settle for a smaller percentage . |
| 14 | The thoughts of Cailliet and Bédé point forward to the importance of communion with the dead in Four Quartets , with their intense , visionary moments ; more immediately the Frenchmen 's stress that , like primitive thought , ‘ Le symbolisme , en effet , requiert tout d'abord une détente de l'attention ’ , is paralleled in The Use of Poetry by Eliot 's presentation of poetic creation not as an act of concentrated attention , but as a relaxation , or removal of a normal barrier . |
| 15 | Thus they completed their great work as an act of confession for the sins of the past . |
| 16 | Yet it does not occur to them that God might have brought about the defeat as an act of judgement upon them , and unlike Joshua and the elders in the story of Ai in Joshua 7 , they do not bother to turn to God to discover his mind . |
| 17 | Turning and seeing her , he affirms her deed as an act of faith : ‘ Daughter , your faith has made you well ; go in peace and be healed of your disease . ’ |
| 18 | And so the telegram was sent , a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania : ‘ I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander , Allied Powers ; Commander-in-Chief , United Nations Command ; Commander-in-Chief , Far East ; and Commanding General , U. S. Army Far East . |
| 19 | As an act of God , Easter is not accessible to the methods of historical investigation . |
| 20 | Congregationalists , for example , noted in their Year Books from 1898 to 1901 that they had installed 144 new organs ; as early as 1873 William Shepherdson , a Member of the College of Organists , reminded Nonconformists that a hundred years before , organs ‘ were beyond the reach of small Churches , while as to Chapels … the placing of an organ … would have been regarded as an act of profanation . ’ |
| 21 | The painfully sensitive narrator of The Better Angel grows up to be a farmer , not a novelist , but there is still the sense that he tells his tale as an act of compulsive , faintly therapeutic , honesty . |
| 22 | More generally , creation has always been understood as an act of God 's grace , something He could perfectly well have chosen not to do , rather than some kind of necessary mechanism through which He ensured His own existence . |
| 23 | The relation between the world and God is not one of reciprocal dependence : the world exists only as an act of divine favour . |
| 24 | It would , however , be a great mistake to dismiss the event as an act of folly without any serious consequences , for the proof of the existence of a serious candidate led to the definite rebirth of Bonapartism as a political force in France and it was this movement which was later to carry Louis-Napoleon to power . |
| 25 | The local skaters take it upon themselves to remove some dangerous panelling designed to withstand loose board , however the local council see this as an act of vandalism and feeling are strong amongst some councillors to get rid of the ramp . |
| 26 | I fished on , more as an act of defiance than in the hope of catching anything ; and just as I was about to surrender a fish rose , as they always do in these circumstances , far beyond my reach . |
| 27 | On the whole , however , I believe that , though school assembly should cease to be compulsory as an act of worship ( largely because it has long ceased to be that anyway ) , there should be a place in the timetable for the compulsory teaching of Christianity , as long as Church and State are linked . |
| 28 | He channelled a great deal of effort into his group , almost as an act of revenge . |
| 29 | As an act of conciliation , James II soon afterwards , in one of his last acts as monarch , offered Trelawney his much desired See of Exeter . |
| 30 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |