Example sentences of "it [vb -s] [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company claims that its system software and hardware is functionally compatible with applications software written for the Macintosh — only some of the most widely used ones have been tested , and the company provides a list of these — but it uses OSF/Motif as the graphical interface rather than a direct copy of the Mac screen . |
| 2 | It uses Postscript as the transfer format , thus providing hardware independence . |
| 3 | Often , too , it describes lesbianism as the epitome of the woman-centred approach , as if , by carrying identification with women into the most intimate areas of experience , lesbians crystallize feminist resistance : ‘ A lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion ’ ( Radicalesbians 1973 : 471 ) . |
| 4 | Whether it confirms Leapor as the enemy of patriarchy , one who ‘ laughs at the fathers ’ , is doubtful . |
| 5 | But instead of the ‘ informing spirit ’ which was held to constitute all other activities , it sees culture as the signifying system through which necessarily ( though among other means ) a social order is communicated , reproduced , experienced and explored . |
| 6 | I could n't put my finger on what it was I disliked about him , yet now it seems plain as the nose on your face . |
| 7 | The process of signification is what accomplishes the task of the myth ; it subverts simple denotation through its wider connotation , it naturalizes culture as the given order of the day , and it utilizes the ambiguities and tendencies of the process of signification itself in order to effect its apparent closures . |
| 8 | The placement of verbs in initial position in the Portuguese text has a communicative function : it thematizes processes as the writer 's point of departure , an arrangement particularly suited to the reporting of academic research and scientific methods . |
| 9 | It defines London as the whole of the area formerly administered by the Greater London Council , and the City of London . |