Example sentences of "and [verb] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future . |
| 2 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 3 | I need to grow and change and develop as a person in my own terms . |
| 4 | We grow and develop as a result of those interactions . |
| 5 | The breakdown of capitalism and the advent of a new form of society are conceived and explained as the outcome of the way a particular structure — the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society — works , not as the product of a historical process ; and the post-capitalist societies which can be foreseen , or which actually exist , may be as varied as were feudal societies or the absolutist states . |
| 6 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 7 | These teaching materials are techniques made manifest by the specific choice of language , designed and arranged as a series of tasks or exercises for immediate implementation . |
| 8 | When extrapolated and heard as a song-cycle ( as intended ) , its light quasi-sardonic approach , and uncomplicated musical setting , is attractive enough , sung stylishly by Margaret Cable and Christopher Keyte , with the composer at the piano . |
| 9 | Here in the open grass he broke into a headlong run , lurching and recovering as the tussocks turned under him . |
| 10 | It is often helpful to create several small files ( 5-10 entries maximum ) with varying layouts and indexing as an aid to discussion at the design stage . |
| 11 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 12 | The Greiner administration , which had lost its tiny majority because of Metherell 's earlier decision to leave the Liberal Party and sit as an independent , then recovered its position when the Liberal candidate won the by-election in Metherell 's former seat . |
| 13 | Commonly , rectal distensibility is determined as rectal compliance and calculated as the changes of volume and intrarectal pressure ( ) . |
| 14 | And [ Molla Fenari " s ] standing rose in [ the sultan " s ] estimation and he occupied the highest place therein and consulted with the sultan in all affairs [ of state ] and became as the vezir … |
| 15 | Is he addressing his comments to all those who have become marginalised and dispossessed as a result of right-wing Conservative policies over the years ? |
| 16 | Having missed the deadline to register as a Democratic candidate in the November elections , he resigned from the party on Aug. 13 and registered as an independent . |
| 17 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 18 | After removal of the supernatant , the pellet was dispersed into a slurry , drawn into a fine glass pipette and placed as a standing drop on the surface of a nucleopore filter in organ culture . |
| 19 | It is found along with fossils of planktonic organisms and it is possible to explain the change in growth between coil and trumpet as a change that happened when the larval shell settled on the bottom . |
| 20 | In 1894 he lost his job and failed as a cobbler . |
| 21 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 22 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 23 | The Boffins take care of him when Betty goes away , and disguised as a dustman , he keeps an eye on Wegg whilst Boffin 's mounds are cleared to see that nothing is stolen . |
| 24 | The neck joint is similar to Ibanez and Heartfield 's ‘ all access ’ variety which does away with the usual bulky metal plate and offers as an alternative four recessed bolts and a sloping , shaped heel , which really does feel good under the hand . |
| 25 | In that case it was argued , unsuccessfully , that the construction manager 's decision was final and binding as a valuation . |
| 26 | Topics investigated will include : social origins of singers ; their training ; the castrati as a group ( far wider than a handful of notorious star singers ) and as a symptom of economic depression ; the shift from reliance on royal or aristocratic patrons to professional independence and cash earnings ; changing contractual arrangements ; and singing as a means to social advancement and to women 's independence . |
| 27 | If the match at the County Ground is anywhere near as fast and lose as the game at London Road , then the Swindon fans are in for a thriller . |
| 28 | Although deformed and treated as a spectacle , he was adopted by ‘ high society ’ at the height of his ‘ fame ’ and later abandoned by them . |
| 29 | The sign or the symbol , however , can be ignored and treated as an end in itself . |
| 30 | Its use does not preclude the side-by-side use of specific MAS checklists or work programmes but the SEPR must be regarded and treated as the lead control record . |