Example sentences of "as [vb -s] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Profits are increasingly being generated by treating pubs not just as places to sell large volumes of beer but as broader retail outlets promoting food and a range of drinks . |
| 2 | For example , where possible imperatives will be interpreted as relevant to the present interaction , and thus as requests to implement some action at the present time . |
| 3 | The weak equivalence principle can now be restated as follows to exclude tidal effects : the results of local mechanical experiments in a state of free fall are independent of the motion . |
| 4 | Drastic changes of policy would have been very difficult , as attempts to cut Federal spending and to balance the budget revealed . |
| 5 | Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions . |
| 6 | Audubon was not the first to try to portray animals in motion , but his dramatic and vast illustrations of the birds of America were important as attempts to show living creatures . |