Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 2 | It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast . |
| 3 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 4 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 5 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 6 | The immersion programme in Canada ( described in Stern 1978 , 1983 ; Swain 1978 , 1982 ; Swain and Lapkin 1981 ) involves the teaching of French contingently by using it as a medium of instruction for other subjects on the curriculum . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 8 | Raising victim consciousness could also be achieved by incorporating it as a function explicitly pursued by controlling and regulating agencies . |
| 9 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 10 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 11 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 12 | She understood now what Mr Stanforth had meant by describing him as a man who had deliberately evaded certain responsibilities and involvements , and even kept his affairs in scrupulous order mainly to avoid being badgered , or giving anyone a hold on him . |
| 13 | Clarence Hiles in the Ulster Cricketer , reiterates the esteem in which Sean was held by describing him as the doyen of Irish cricket writers ‘ who tackled all the main issues , in the caring thoughtful manner which made him so popular with both players and officials alike . ’ |
| 14 | Clarence Hiles in the Ulster Cricketer , reiterates the esteem in which Sean was held by describing him as the doyen of Irish cricket writers ‘ who tackled all the main issues , in the caring thoughtful manner which made him so popular with both players and officials alike . ’ |
| 15 | In one yesterday , an article by Islington Council leader Margaret Hodge ended by describing her as the leader of the Association of Local Authorities since 1093 . |
| 16 | Do you avoid the responsibility of countering sexist attitudes by viewing them as a natural part of the society 's framework which students expect you to reinforce ? |
| 17 | Particularly , we have seen that it is often financed by revenue , either explicitly ( by recording it as an asset with an equal figure of capital discharged ) or implicitly ( by expensing it ) . |
| 18 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 19 | The ANC was strongly opposed to such a meeting on the grounds that it would give undeserved legitimacy to Buthelezi by treating him as a leader of equivalent standing . |
| 20 | Willink thought that perhaps he should not go ; but he also discontented Ramsey by treating it as a problem in how Ramsey should get the best career in a worldly sense . |
| 21 | When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government . |
| 22 | What is meant by treating you as a whole person ? |
| 23 | On June 15 the military expressed their support for Gen. Chaovalit by appointing him as a special adviser to the Internal Security Command , the Supreme Command , and the combined armed forces . |
| 24 | Positive form can be introduced into any polygon or polyhedron by regarding it as a closed skin subjected to internal expansion . |
| 25 | By recognizing you as a regular guest . |
| 26 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 27 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 28 | On the other hand , if you 're making something the world wants , by making it as the lowest cost supplier , you can usually expand your work-force . |
| 29 | Now , the world 's leading impartial computer industry report — produced by Dataquest — has confirmed it , by placing us as the Overall Leaders for Customer Satisfaction in their annual user poll . |
| 30 | Other feminists , like Mitchell ( 1974 ) and Coward ( e.g. Coward and Ellis 1977 ) , have tried to tie Lacanian psychoanalysis to social relations , by interpreting it as a descriptive account of how discourses of femininity and masculinity are reproduced , through language , in our conscious and unconscious subjectivities . |