Example sentences of "not [verb] [noun sg] as a " in BNC.

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1 In November 1988 Nelson was charged with threatening to kill a man from Sandy Row and warning him not to attend court as a witness in an assault case .
2 But it can not treat gender as a theoretical or methodological category , that might structure its own tools and methods of inquiry , and so it can not examine its own discourse for masculine bias .
3 There are a number of confounding factors in our deliberation , such as level of knowledge of BSL and the styles involved , attitudes which do not treat BSL as an adequate language code , and the pressures and difficulties of the interpreting task itself .
4 This notion of breaking a repertoire of language behaviour into a progressive series , moving from simple to complex stages , bore little resemblance to traditional theories of learning since it did not include rote-memorisation as an essential element .
5 That person may hold ‘ citizenship ’ as a legal , national status , but does not display citizenship as a quality .
6 In such cases functional assessment methods are indispensable , and show the value of behavioural methods of working that do not assume consciousness as a fundamental human quality .
7 Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ?
8 Lear , however , as he constantly complained , had not had training as an engraver ; and , in an effort to find a medium that would serve his publication without drawing excessively on his limited resources , he turned to the novel technique of lithography .
9 ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’
10 Most of the non-payees can not claim unemployment as an excuse , says members ' registrar Bob Russell .
11 Since women do not see housework as a coherent , meaningful structure of tasks demanding their full attention , they are not made dissatisfied by its fragmented nature .
12 What this means , of course , is that functionalists do not see consciousness as a defining feature of the mental .
13 ‘ They should not see television as a panacea for all financial ills . ’
14 ( Caterham , in common with other British sports car manufacturers , does not see marketing as a high priority .
15 I do not romanticise agony as a virtue , nor imagine that it makes me superior .
16 Do not use zinc as a pure chemical with fish ; locked up in the seed it is slowly used and is not present in an overwhelming amount .
17 Do not use alcohol as a means of getting to sleep , this will simply lead to alcohol dependence and there is evidence that alcohol has a detrimental affect on the quality of your sleep .
18 Do not use time as an excuse , he wrote .
19 But , as Elinor was always telling him , Henry did not inspire confidence as a representative of the legal profession .
20 If you do want to enjoy a one-to-one relationship of a companionable or romantic nature there are various ways one can make contact , other people who want to do the same and they need not have marriage as an aim if that is not what you want .
21 So too an attempt to make a direct gift , which fails because the proper method of transfer is not employed , will not take effect as a trust .
22 Jacob can not approach Esau as a brother .
23 This is not to propose Christianity as a counter-ideology .
24 Further , repeating groups do occur in applications ( values in a ledger , for instance ) , but the normalisation process does not permit representation as an array .
25 Examining the reports of the Chief Constable of Birmingham between 1900 and 1940 , Tony Mason notes that football does not merit inclusion as a policing problem .
26 She could not offer advice as a grandmother , despite her long experience of children ; and now her own children had ceased to confide in her ‘ because they felt that the time had come when I ought to be ‘ spared ’ every possible worry .
27 A draft report from the House of Representatives charged that the EPA ‘ acted improperly or at a minimum created the appearance of impropriety ’ , in deciding not to regulate formaldehyde as a cancer-causing chemical .
28 Significantly , another housewife mentioned the fact that housework is not paid work as a reason for disliking it ; she said she would be happier doing someone else 's housework for pay than doing her own work .
29 Aboriginals , it was true , could not imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers : but rather as an interlocking network of " lines " or " ways through " .
30 I do n't want marriage as a lifeline .
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