Example sentences of "in [v-ing] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 They concur with the group in seeing it as a way of cutting down on bootleg tapes , though it will still reduce the impact of a future live album .
2 However , in reaffirming it as an objective , Mr Kinnock was careful not to set a timescale for reducing unemployment to between 750,000 and one million , depending on circumstances .
3 Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise .
4 Three years and some months since leaving him , I had satisfied myself that , in picking me as a wife , he had done no more than is required to select a fruit from a dish with the prospect of some fleeting juiciness , but no lasting nourishment .
5 Politicians in Zagreb have no trouble in imagining them as the advance guard of a new patrol on the frontiers of a greater Serbia .
6 Ted Fleming 's original has been copied many times , always with appreciated success , so we have no hesitation in recommending it as a lifter for any parafauna that is within reasonable weight limits .
7 He renegotiated the agreement over tunnel usage by the railways and succeeded in presenting it as a breakthrough .
8 Unless it does so , however , it is inevitable that , in presenting itself as a general theory of conduct , psychology will come to embody a certain idea of man .
9 It is evident that he has no difficulty either in describing himself as a Dvaitin or Dualist , or as a follower of Viśi ādvaita or qualified non-Dualism , namely , non-Dualism with distinctions .
10 This may be one of the reasons why Gandhi has no difficulty in describing himself as an Advaitin or non-Dualist , though to what extent it is accurate to regard Gandhi as an Advaitin is another matter .
11 Gouldner was just three-quarters right in describing it as a culture of critical discourse ; for it is essentially a culture of self-critical discourse .
12 Structuralists did not believe in examining the text in relation to society — although they did believe in examining the relationships within texts and between texts — nor in examining it as a work with moral significance ; the aim was simply to lay bare the universal structures which were hidden within it .
13 Western philosophy coincides with the disclosure of the other where the other , in manifesting itself as a being , loses its alterity .
14 If you are to get the maximum enjoyment from growing roses , just as much care is needed in choosing one as a hundred , and it is to selecting what to grow — and where to buy — that we now turn .
15 There are at least two other central issues that must be discussed before we can obtain a clearer insight into what is involved in regarding something as an ontological existent .
16 If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision .
17 Again , like Marx and the elite theorists he conceives the state largely , if not wholly , in terms of domination ; and this ‘ realist ’ view distinguishes him sharply from those social scientists who , while differing about what the role of the state should be ( how interventionist or laissez-faire ) , agree fundamentally in regarding it as an autonomous and neutral body , which arbitrates among competing claims and expresses the real consensus in society that underlies particular conflicts of interest .
18 The teacher 's purposes in selecting it as a ‘ collaborative ’ activity would be undermined if some children worked individually .
19 In the last analysis Christian rulers wanted the Church 's approval and support and Innocent had gone one further step in identifying himself as the representative of the final arbiter and judge of man .
20 When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind .
21 If shaft flexibility is not important dynamically there seems little point in introducing it as an unwanted variable in the swing .
22 The people who conceived this film and the people who applaud it take certain masochistic fascination in casting themselves as the martyrs , poor innocents slaughtered by barbarians . ’
23 Just as mainstream Surrealism made a point of emphasising the intuitive powers of women , and delighted in portraying her as an earthbound sorceress , so many women artists also presented their image as subject to the cycles of nature and magical forces .
24 It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent .
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