Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite conceivable they were involved in it and he met Maria as a result . |
| 2 | He avoided work as a rule , but had a quickness of wit that put his acquaintances in mind of a bright rodent . |
| 3 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 4 | He reveres Tagore as the great modern writer of Bengal , but he looks at him disrespectfully , as if he was applying a Brechtian alienation-effect on him . |
| 5 | More significantly , he redefined socialism as a marriage of ‘ necessary regulation and the dynamic of the market ’ . |
| 6 | The mixed media trio did not prove successful but during that period of David 's life he found work as an extra on the film The Virgin Soldiers and appeared in a pilot television commercial for Lyons Maid , advertising their new ice-cream . |
| 7 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 8 | He was ambitious and he regarded Middlesbrough as a big club . |
| 9 | He regarded adolescence as a period of sexual apprenticeship . |
| 10 | At first he regarded crime as a form of rebellion among those who had ‘ courage and passion enough openly to resist society , to reply with declared war upon the bourgeoisie . ’ |
| 11 | He had no idea of the real identity of one of the major shareholders in the enterprise and he regarded Irina as a dedicated and skilful doctor . |
| 12 | Olympic boost : A leading Sydney official today admitted he rated Manchester as an increasingly serious rival for the right to stage the 2000 Olympic Games . |
| 13 | Mr Lawson 's words might have reassured the financial markets had he carried conviction as a man in complete charge of short-term economic policy ; instead he sounded faintly ridiculous . |
| 14 | Though he is too politically cautious to admit it in public , Mr Reilly knows he needs taxes as a weapon in the environmental arsenal , even if they are disguised under another label . |
| 15 | In The Devil 's Dictionary , he described litigation as a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage . |
| 16 | This is rather like the moment in Lewis 's life when he described philosophy as a subject and Barfield replied that to Plato , philosophy was not a subject but a way . |
| 17 | Krafft-Ebing expressed the orthodox view in the late nineteenth century when he described sex as a ‘ natural instinct ’ which ‘ with all conquering force and might demands fulfilment ’ . |
| 18 | He described Moses as a magus who , learning his magic from the Egyptians , had outconjured the magicians of Pharaoh . |
| 19 | He described handwriting as a ‘ dance of the pen ’ : so it was when he himself wrote . |
| 20 | He described Chelsea as a little village a couple of miles from London where the Thames ran between nurseries and market gardens , ‘ of which there are a frightful number ’ . |
| 21 | He described Nato as a forum where Western countries would work together to negotiate agreements between East and West and see that they were implemented and verifiable . |
| 22 | He used correspondence as a safety valve , and for imaginary company . |
| 23 | Supporting a notion of consumerism he proposed litigation as a more satisfactory procedure than the existing forms of self-regulation provided by the General Medical Council . |
| 24 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
| 25 | In 1967 he entered BYU as an undergraduate student of science . |
| 26 | ‘ So wonderfully pleased and satisfied ’ was he with it that , as Molyneux wrote to Locke , ‘ he has ordered it to be read by the Batchelors in the College , and strictly examines them in their progress therein ’ ; and so it came about that Locke 's masterpiece was on the curriculum which faced George Berkeley , the subject of the next chapter , when he entered Trinity as a student in 1700 . |
| 27 | He must respect it , recognising that it is God 's creation and that he exercises dominion as a trustee but does not possess exclusive proprietary rights as owner . |
| 28 | He loves Strach as a player and always mentions the fact that Strach is still the best right sided midfielder in the league . |
| 29 | Early in A Shropshire Lad he describes Worcester/Hereford/Shropshire as the ‘ coloured counties ’ . |
| 30 | Although he describes religion as the " incarnation " of a culture he does not fully elucidate the point — at this level of abstraction , elucidation is perhaps impossible — but goes on to discuss the relation of politics and education to this larger whole . |