Example sentences of "in [verb] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , in using as an example the books of Joyce Porter featuring the gross , lazy and self-indulgent Inspector Dover we have already touched on this difficult combination of crime ( which is , after all , a serious matter almost all of the time ) and farce , and these two types of book are , of course , closely linked .
2 After she left at 16 she got a job in a pub but became interested in nursing as a career , being taken on as a trainee student nurse three years later .
3 He served as a member of the royal commission on Indian expenditure ( 1895–1900 ) but he made an error in appearing as a witness before the other commissioners .
4 She was 16 at the time , but later succeeded in qualifying as a lawyer .
5 Reducing the widening social class divide in smoking as a priority in line with Government plans in Health of the Nation White Paper .
6 The dementia sufferer will become increasingly forgetful , and will therefore have growing difficulty in living as a conventional , independent , social being .
7 Jean Dwyer , widely known in publishing as the long standing London syndication manager of News Ltd of Australia , died in Oxford on 9th March , aged 59 , after a long illness .
8 The HRD practitioner can provide useful assistance in specifying the resources that are needed , in serving as a resource , in identifying other internal and external resources , and in encouraging people to generate creative ways of using resources .
9 The international cooperation in seen as a way to reduce costs .
10 Moreover , in acting as a teacher the librarian was offering structured and directed courses with declared objectives , and frequently with examined results .
11 Many of these were the overseas branches of US banks which made a healthy margin in acting as the go-betweens between the OPEC members , who wanted to lend dollars , and the countries with balance of payments deficits which wanted to borrow them .
12 It is believed that the tongue plays an important part in acting as an antennae for vibrations , or that the snake is hypersensitive to earth vibrations .
13 In reporting as a result of an assurance oriented valuation engagement , the following principles should be borne in mind :
14 There are many analogies in accounting as a whole for this paradox .
15 Whether one sees creativity in accounting as a virtue or not , it is a natural part of the tradition of flexibility in rule making ( a tradition that includes an unwritten constitution and common law , among other things ) : detailed and specific rights and obligations are anathema .
16 We were fortunate in getting as a consultant Fred Spence , who was the advertising manager in Calcutta of the Imperial Tobacco Company .
17 Hence a social contract can ensure stable cooperation only if it reads ‘ I will cooperate ; I will join in punishing any defection ; I will treat any member who does not join in punishing as a defector . ’
18 In this case , there is no increase in spending as a result of an increase in the level of income of the median voter .
19 The banks questioned in the survey argued that although the level of headhunting activity had indeed risen with the Big Bang , from their point of view it had then fallen off ; whilst many non-financial users of search , such as BICC , suggested that claims of noticeable changes in recruiting as a result of either event were wildly exaggerated .
20 Middle-class children from a German Jewish background were weaned on a faith in learning as the way to a prosperous and fulfilling career .
21 In dosing as a prophylactic measure , the pondkeeper runs the risk of using the wrong remedy , at the wrong dosage , and interfering with the filter bacteria ( which , in spring at least , require a boost , not a setback ) .
22 The District Councils have no money , the Government is not interested in cycling as a mode of transport , the Region does have a limited budget but most of it goes on the cycling team .
23 Spanish-born Catalina , 50 , insists she did not force her husband 's hand in resigning as a Foreign Office Minister , though she admits her joy at his decision .
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