Example sentences of "on [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's also a shot of doomy love interest ( Keaton trying to get fellow addict Katy Baker off ) and dopey oedipal sparring ( Keaton trying to get counsellor M Emmet Walsh on ) , but in the end any attempt at getting a fix on using as a way of life is elbowed puritanically aside . |
| 2 | Understanding general differences between spelling and speaking may help you to improve your own spelling , and may make it more interesting to focus on spelling as an issue in your writing . |
| 3 | The reliance of elderly people on walking as a mode of transport increases their exposure to risk whilst their failing faculties raise the likelihood of them not seeing the striking vehicle . |
| 4 | Experts have forecast that even a partial ban will be a blow to Taiwan 's fishing companies , which are already facing recession and rely on driftnetting as the most profitable method . |
| 5 | Verbivore focuses on writing as a form of communication : it posits a society in which writing has become outmoded and is then rediscovered , prompting a renewal of discursive modes peculiar to the novel . |
| 6 | The onus is on writing as a medium to demonstrate that it is capable of forms of communication which are impossible in the oral media , and that it therefore still has a place in contemporary society . |
| 7 | Chewing the fat before this meeting in that shit-hole of a place some berks will tiresomely insist on dignifying as a ‘ foyer ’ — frenchified bloody nonsense — a parent quizzed me on my attitude towards the teaching of English . |
| 8 | Governments and cities have seized on recycling as the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish going to landfills or being incinerated . |
| 9 | With the emphasis on learning as an active process , through engagement with a variety of learning resources and materials , the principles of RBL have found their way into schools wherever projector enquiry-based work , worksheets etc. have been adopted . |
| 10 | Money is one of the more fascinating of social inventions which depends on counting as a capacity to express , in a word , measure , the social value of individuals , labour and commodities in society . |
| 11 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 12 | Occasionally a party is defied , and a rejected and disgruntled postulant insists on standing as an independent . |
| 13 | He became a vice-president of the club three years ago , on resigning as a director to make way for Mr Bill Kenwright . |
| 14 | Not all the teachers look on tutoring as an unmixed blessing . |