Example sentences of "by [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painting represented the choice of an arduous intellectual profession and Angelica Kauffman boldly inserts her self as the intellectual artist making a moral choice by using as the model for her self portrayal one of the key themes used to demonstrate masculine dedication and virtue , ‘ Hercules Choosing between Virtue and Vice ’ . |
| 2 | A disabled man has made aviation history by qualifying as a glider pilot instructor . |
| 3 | As his land was not fertile enough to support his family , he supplemented his income by operating as a carrier , conveying small quantities of goods by pack animal to and from neighbouring villages . |
| 4 | In its first year the plant will process 500 BMWs , building up to its capacity of 2,500 , by operating as a factory in reverse — working on the premise that everything that is bolted , welded , glued , screwed or sewn in can be used again . |
| 5 | And yet this creature who so violates the natural order and traditional gender divisions by dressing as a man also does things better than a man : ‘ I should draw first and prove the quicker man ’ , she says ( iv . |
| 6 | The song , properly known as the ‘ Song of the Western Men ’ , was not sung on the road : it was not written until two centuries later , by the eccentric Parson Hawker of Morwenstow , ( in the intervals between scaring his parishioners by dressing as a mermaid and singing on the seashore ) . |
| 7 | She had the feeling that this morning 's events would have been faithfully reported by Marie and she sincerely hoped that the girl did not add to her earnings by serving as a waitress here . |
| 8 | Wirgman influenced the development of Western-style painting in Japan by serving as the first foreign teacher to artists painting in the Western style . |
| 9 | Critical appreciation was desired by fry as a necessary part of a course in art history ; , and is today naturally included . |
| 10 | A TWO-WOMAN firm based in east London believes it has found a niche in the staff recruitment market by acting as a broker between companies and recruitment agencies . |
| 11 | Certainly suspect committee members had attempted to go abroad , but the real reason was probably that the committee had served its purpose by acting as a bait to attract foreign relief organizations ( the ARA drew up an agreement on 20 August ) . |
| 12 | If you can afford one , a good plugger can benefit both the artist and the radio station by acting as a fixer for guest appearances , or providing news and creative ideas ; but like everything , some pluggers are better than others , and radio producers usually prefer to exercise their own musical judgement and not to pander to pluggers ' suggestions . |
| 13 | These people supply the expert knowledge which is lacking , and save the librarian embarrassment by acting as a shield between the disposing library and the purchaser . |
| 14 | He extended the family fortunes by marrying a Welsh heiress , and built up a considerable personal wealth by acting as a mortgage broker to less fortunate or less thrifty members of the gentry . |
| 15 | Consultants can get round this problem by acting as a neutral third party . |
| 16 | Gerry : Unions could have a role in organizing workers with specific oppressions by acting as a buffer between groups and management ; providing a wider political context tor organizing in ; and for providing liaison , information and support . |
| 17 | They alighted on Saddam Hussein of Iraq , who in the late 1970s was beginning to portray himself as a man of moderation who might be able to make himself useful to the West , not least by acting as a counter to now-revolutionary Iran . |
| 18 | So the citizen could only flourish as a person by acting as a part or member of the whole , the community . |
| 19 | It seems likely that the stigma can improve the aerodynamic efficiency of the wing by acting as a passive , inertial regulator of its pitch angle , thus raising the speed limits operative both in active flight and in gliding ( Norberg , 1972 ) . |
| 20 | Excavations at Water Newton have yielded little evidence about the settlement 's everyday life apart from the industrial aspects already discussed , but there can be little doubt that it enjoyed a close relationship with the imperial estate in the Fens , by acting as a processing and marketing centre conveniently placed both for road and river transport . |
| 21 | The upgrade is normally taken care of by the Upgrade Centre itself , but Mike Murphy , MD at the centre , told Practical PC that he 's quite happy for a dealer to do the upgrade for a client , by acting as a sort of middle man . |
| 22 | By acting as a substitute , a supplement , to its ostensible signified , language is always suggesting the signified is somehow other than it appears in its linguistic signifying form . |
| 23 | In patients with TIH , the main circulating mediator is PTHrP. , In breast cancer , PTHrP may also contribute to the ability of metastases to grow in bone by acting as a local mediator . |
| 24 | These regularly include at least one actor standing in a position intermediary between the dramatic characters proper and the audience by acting as a narrator or declaiming a prologue . |
| 25 | Especially in a small animal , the whole body surface catches the air and assists the leap , or breaks the fall , by acting as a crude aerofoil . |
| 26 | How could he possibly think such a thing about her — that she would not only take drugs herself , but that she 'd willingly put him in horrific danger by acting as a kind of double agent ? |
| 27 | ‘ My study reviews the evidence that a genetically-determined maternal response to influenza results in production of an antibody which crosses the fetal blood-brain barrier and , by acting as a fetal auto-antibody , induces neurodevelopmental damage , ’ added the Professor . |
| 28 | He also believes his gas sensor could play a key role in improving home safety by acting as a fire detector . |
| 29 | By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ . |
| 30 | It usually works by acting as an external focus for the electric fields generated by the brain , and directs them at a receptive machine or conditioned brain elsewhere . |