Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing the latter in one-dimensional terms , and characterising it as a weak version of the more prestigious intellectual analogues used ( design as weak art or weak science ) , such models never explored design — cognitive activity from its own standpoint or in respect of its own efficacy . |
| 2 | Instead , the wall was used as a reason for seeking conciliation with the East and accepting it as a fait accompli . |
| 3 | It has been stated that the principle of primogenital succession was increasingly observed in the eleventh century ; but there was a substantial difference between accepting the customary right of the eldest son to succeed , if he were of age and competent , and accepting it as an inviolable rule , as was proved by the usurpation of Robert the Frisian , and perhaps also by the succession of Raymond IV of Toulouse ( though here the facts are rather uncertain ) . |
| 4 | What makes the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape ? ( 194–219 ) |
| 5 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |
| 6 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 7 | It is difficult to believe that , among the tumult in the cave , either mother or baby would be able to recognise one another 's voices , but bats are famous for their skill in disentangling the echoes of their high-frequency squeaks and using them as a way of navigating . |
| 8 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 9 | Child abuse is something no one would wish to endure , and using it as a sales/hype ploy is sick . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a nightmare , ’ Baldwin told G. M. Young , attributing the defeat exclusively to ‘ the pacifist ’ issue and using it as a reason for eschewing rearmament in the early days of Hitler . |
| 11 | Donna did n't manage to get her finger around the trigger but she did pull the weapon clear , closing her hand around it and using it as a club . |
| 12 | The plan for converting the large volumes of the mill interior into living accommodation involved retaining the entrance into the lean-to engine house and using it as the main entrance to the building . |
| 13 | The vulture is manipulating the stone and using it as an extension of its beak to crack the egg . |
| 14 | As a teenager he signed for Rangers , winning a League Cup Winner 's medal at 17 , and establishing himself as a prominent newcomer in the Scotland Youth Team . |
| 15 | A competitor like Hewlett-Packard Co , which earlier this year took its own lumps for baiting-and-switching , says the machine is ‘ neither fish nor fowl , ’ describing it as ‘ too severely compromised to be a workstation ’ and dismissing it as no better than a 50MHz 80486 box . |
| 16 | So , in making their denials , they often make unseemly proclamations about their own heterosexuality , in the worst cases ( only too common ) dis-associating themselves from ‘ radical feminists ’ ( read lesbians ) and presenting themselves as the ones who are the reasonable moderates . |
| 17 | A new grouping , the Boere Weerstandsbeweging ( BWB — a splinter group of the AWB formed on June 11 and describing itself as the armed wing of the BP ) , pledged solidarity with the BP in its aim of re-establishing former Boer republics . |
| 18 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 19 | John received the support of Innocent against the Magna Carta which the pope annulled in August 1215 , suspending Langton and summoning him as a participant to answer at Rome . |
| 20 | For the health visitors , being professional meant having a particular orientation to the job and displaying oneself as a particular kind of person . |
| 21 | The Trust also believes that our countryside belongs to the whole nation , and an important part of its work at the Denmark Farm Conservation Centre involves creating public access to this pocket of living countryside and sharing it as a resource with local people and the many city- dwellers all over Britain who support the experiment financially . |
| 22 | Knowing how the crowd was on Tony 's side and treating him as the hero only seemed to make Lee more determined . |
| 23 | By denying women their individuality and treating them as a class , the feminist movement confines them to a political ghetto , with the movement 's leaders as overseers . |
| 24 | So far we have focused on the time-depth of vernacular variants in English , using ( h ) as an example and treating it as a binary variable ( we have assumed that in such words as hall , hit it is either pronounced or dropped ) . |
| 25 | Why note use a battery-backed SRAM ( static random access memory ) in place of the EEPROM , plugging it directly onto the computer bus and treating it as an other RAM in the system ? |
| 26 | This sentence distinguishes between , say , saying it as an example of a sentence , or on the stage , etc. , and saying it as an assertion . |
| 27 | Distress is a remedy given by the common law , whereby a party in certain cases is entitled to enforce a right or obtain redress for a wrong in a summary manner , by seizing chattels and retaining them as a pledge until satisfaction is obtained . |
| 28 | Signora Silvana Ciammarughi , the owner and creator of this unique establishment , nursed for a long time the dream of acquiring some old house of character , converting it and running it as a hotel . |
| 29 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |