Example sentences of "they [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 2 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 3 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 4 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 5 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 6 | If parents were faced with this list which one would you advise them to choose as a priority ? |
| 7 | The spirit which these people brought with them survives as the backbone of America today . |
| 8 | Many of them started as a collection of small bothies at which distilling was taking place . |
| 9 | I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere . |
| 10 | The Jewish commentaries on the story tell of how the two of them worked as a team , educating the people around them , teaching them that they should not worship idols , and that there is only one God . |
| 11 | They met as a commission , under the chairmanship of the Swede Gustaf Aulén , to debate the first theme of the agenda , the Universal Church in God 's Design . |
| 12 | Only if the applicant can meet all these standards are then they admitted as a member . |
| 13 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 14 | Russell Reynolds suffered another knock with the arrival of Windle priem at Korn/Ferry , who effectively took much of the firm 's vital financial services business in New York in the late 1970s ; but they recovered as a result of the build-up of their overseas branches , and several successful big name searches . |
| 15 | This group had isolated themselves socially because of the paranoia that they experienced as a side-effect of their drug use . |
| 16 | In what follows I am going to use a general procedure for reading texts to examine specific features of racist discourse to be found in ‘ Fighting talk ’ and ‘ The last laugh ’ and to suggest a series of questions which they raise as an agenda for further research and debate . |
| 17 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 18 | In general terms , developmentalists take the view that it should be possible to examine the ways in which infants and young children interact with the physical world and with other people and to determine how they change as a result . |
| 19 | In a way , black sportsmen in Britain are responding to what they perceive as a challenge . |
| 20 | National styles in music can be powerful , especially when the listeners of one nation are presented with music so powerfully impressed with what they perceive as the style of another . |
| 21 | Two streams come down from a hilly hinterland and after a sedate infancy suddenly leap in a happy frolic through verdant surroundings to reach the village where they converge as the River Greta . |
| 22 | In August they objected to a Battle of Britain parade , which they regarded as a recruiting drive for the ‘ occupying armed forces ’ . |
| 23 | The beliefs of this group centred on Downing Street were completely at odds with the ideas of most of the Great and Good whom , indeed , they regarded as a symptom of the problem . |
| 24 | Their main aim was not to obtain compensation — it was said that there was no prospect of recovering damages from Mr Anderson — but to rectify what they regarded as the injustice of his acquittal . |
| 25 | At the same time , even the most highly-educated ‘ modern ’ entrepreneurs were acutely resentful of what they regarded as the disdain for business prevalent among the professional intelligentsia and ‘ enlightened public opinion ’ . |
| 26 | It was from Egypt , too , that the Minoans imported a limited range of manufactured goods ; the fact that nearly all the imports of manufactured goods were Egyptian reflects the Minoans ' admiration for Egyptian culture : possibly it was the only culture they regarded as the equal of their own . |
| 27 | Rightly or wrongly , it is the latter whom they regarded as the enemy during the war of 1982 . |
| 28 | They expressed fears of leaving the embrace of what they regarded as the mother party . |
| 29 | Some villagers were angry at what they regarded as an invasion — others were worried about drugs . |
| 30 | If , in the years to follow , he did relatively little to help the Valois war effort , his defection greatly angered the English who reacted in strongly emotional terms to what they regarded as an act of betrayal and treason against the English crown . |