Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 2 | It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast . |
| 3 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 4 | Finally , ‘ Christendom ’ itself has betrayed Jesus by domesticating him as if he were the possession of the church , and by making faith the acceptance of formulae and practices hallowed by the authority of the past . |
| 5 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 6 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 7 | This legislation is designed not only to counteract the violence by harsh , emergency measures , but also to undermine the political nature of the violence by characterising it as mere criminality ; the hope being that it will diminish the level of public support for those involved . |
| 8 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 9 | The immersion programme in Canada ( described in Stern 1978 , 1983 ; Swain 1978 , 1982 ; Swain and Lapkin 1981 ) involves the teaching of French contingently by using it as a medium of instruction for other subjects on the curriculum . |
| 10 | Indeed , man is much more of a threat to these lizards , by keeping them as pets ; their existence in the wild is now threatened by collectors . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 12 | Raising victim consciousness could also be achieved by incorporating it as a function explicitly pursued by controlling and regulating agencies . |
| 13 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 14 | There is something familiar about the single shoe in the road or the hoof print in the mud , yet Louise Short elevates these fragments by preserving them as plaster casts and ordering them in installations which trace the passage of people and animals . |
| 15 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 16 | A second way of implying an operand is by encoding it as part of the operation code , although the range of values is very restricted as we do not wish to allocate many operation codes in this way . |
| 17 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 18 | She understood now what Mr Stanforth had meant by describing him as a man who had deliberately evaded certain responsibilities and involvements , and even kept his affairs in scrupulous order mainly to avoid being badgered , or giving anyone a hold on him . |
| 19 | Clarence Hiles in the Ulster Cricketer , reiterates the esteem in which Sean was held by describing him as the doyen of Irish cricket writers ‘ who tackled all the main issues , in the caring thoughtful manner which made him so popular with both players and officials alike . ’ |
| 20 | Clarence Hiles in the Ulster Cricketer , reiterates the esteem in which Sean was held by describing him as the doyen of Irish cricket writers ‘ who tackled all the main issues , in the caring thoughtful manner which made him so popular with both players and officials alike . ’ |
| 21 | In one yesterday , an article by Islington Council leader Margaret Hodge ended by describing her as the leader of the Association of Local Authorities since 1093 . |
| 22 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Aeneas returns to try and persuade him to join the battle , and succeeds by describing it as ‘ good sport ’ . |
| 24 | The society is also urging the Association of Chief Police Officers to improve records of horse thefts by marking them as such , rather than just as thefts of livestock . |
| 25 | But he 's making the money by selling them as flats . |
| 26 | Do you avoid the responsibility of countering sexist attitudes by viewing them as a natural part of the society 's framework which students expect you to reinforce ? |
| 27 | Particularly , we have seen that it is often financed by revenue , either explicitly ( by recording it as an asset with an equal figure of capital discharged ) or implicitly ( by expensing it ) . |
| 28 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 29 | Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents . |
| 30 | Strauss had settled that question by treating them as myths , in which the significance of Jesus was indirectly expressed . |