Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 2 | As regards the French , their aim must be to harass the English as best they could , to make their task of governing those parts of France which they controlled , and of conquering those not yet in their hands , as difficult and as expensive as possible . |
| 3 | There is apparently no technical difficulty here since the practice appears to be to deposit the Bill as assented to in the House of Lords library , with a copy going to the Public Records Office . |
| 4 | We have a very detailed management plan on the reserve with our main aim being to maintain the habitat as it is and to ensure that any disturbance to the bird community is minimal . |
| 5 | A detached view of managing the production function in a small firm is to see the task as designing a stable system in an ever-changing environment . |
| 6 | The easiest approach is to plan the gore as one half only on a folded sheet of paper , then to cut out the pattern through the two leaves , open out flat and transfer to a piece of stout card or hardboard , With an average of 14 to cut , did you remember to include the hem width ? |
| 7 | The best way to proceed is to include the clause as described above , but then to add a further clause , covering the issues normally included in an intellectual property rights indemnity , and stating that these express remedies are offered ( on , as it were , an ex gratia basis ) even though the seller takes no responsibility for the infringement . |
| 8 | Your duty is to know the law as it applies to you . |
| 9 | Different single-factor causal theories have been proposed , but the trend in recent years is to view the disorder as heterogeneous and multifactorial , arising from the interplay of psychological , familial , cultural , and biological predisposing factors . |
| 10 | One way of understanding this is to view the discourse as proceeding by answering imagined and unspoken questions by the receiver . |
| 11 | The best general advice for the consumer is to buy the masterpieces as Amadeus wrote them : one at a time , and with loving care . |
| 12 | The first option is to play the ball as it lies . |
| 13 | The safest course for the draftsman to adopt is to express the term as " beginning on " a particular date . |
| 14 | One approach used in the USA is to market the units as ‘ retreats ’ for busy managers . |
| 15 | ( The next stage , paradoxically , is to describe the inferiors as animals , so that the slaughterers need have no qualms of conscience . |
| 16 | The easiest way to cross-hatch is to hold the pastel as one would a pencil and make quick diagonal strokes from left to right and then use the other colour in the opposite direction from right to left . |
| 17 | One of the delights of owning a pond is to watch the fish as they move through the water . |
| 18 | My preference , especially with a menagerie fleet and a relatively long line , is to approach the line as in Diagram 3 . |
| 19 | The attack on a dichotomy of form and content has been persistent in modern criticism ; to change so much as a word , the argument runs , is to change the meaning as well . |
| 20 | One way of viewing the significance of psychoanalytic theories is to conceptualize the unconscious as productive of irrationalities and resistances which simultaneously organize and subvert the operations of conscious subjectivity ( Craib , 1989 ) ; hence their relevance for transforming the rationalism which underlies the pedagogies of both multiculturalist and antiracist educational practices . |
| 21 | Secondly , to limit the evaluation to the measurement of outcomes against objectives is to take the objectives as " given " and as above evaluation themselves . |
| 22 | ‘ The thing to do now is to explain the situation as it affects you at present . |
| 23 | In Fig. 9–12(a) a cash transfer is compared with a price subsidy the objective of which is to make the recipient as well off as possible . |
| 24 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 25 | Africanus ' answer ( no doubt , as often , he was following Julian ) was to construe the trust as being charged on the heir : he was being requested to abandon his claim against the debtor and cede it to the third-party beneficiary . |
| 26 | As property prices in London were moving upwards , Eva 's shrewd plan was to decorate the flat as we had the last house , sell at a profit , and move on . |
| 27 | In this case it was to play the symphony as Shostakovich might have imagined it in his dreams . |
| 28 | The government 's response was to depict the strike as " strictly political " and to order the arrest of six strike leaders who were held briefly in custody on July 4 . |
| 29 | Nowhere to be seen and one of the reasons I bought the magazine was to read the article as I have a Ti'ko machine ( and incidentally have been very pleased with it ) . |
| 30 | The judgement on whether the consequences were acceptable was clearly left to the negotiators : all that had been done was to remove the uncertainty as to what the consequences would be given a set of grade boundaries , not to state whether any set of consequences was acceptable . |