Example sentences of "of [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 2 | Another person we thought of using as a front man was Midge Ure — who I went on to work with straight after The Pistols , in The Rich Kids . |
| 3 | What distinguishes Regency houses perhaps most of all is the elaborate use of ironwork , which architects were just beginning to think of using as a matter of course . |
| 4 | It is with Zerlina that Giovanni sings the enchanting duet ‘ La cì darem la mano ’ , which later composers , including Chopin , paid the compliment of using as the basis for variations . |
| 5 | Ramsay learnt early on the crucial importance of drawing as the basis for his art . |
| 6 | The students form a more personally satisfying picture of nursing as a process . |
| 7 | When reviewing your own goals for the future , it might be useful to look at some of the positive aspects of nursing as a career , to see whether you still identify with them . |
| 8 | The final plank of the strategy is designed to improve the attractiveness of nursing as a career in competition with others . |
| 9 | Displays of police horses , motor cycles , dogs , and dress marching were a dominant image of policing as a uniformed institution in the city . |
| 10 | We do not want this My Lords , th the th the appointed members system will be wrong , it will be against the whole trend of policing as the Noble Lord Harris spelt out from eighteen thirty-five . |
| 11 | I must have accepted the prospect of this baby with a vengeance , if I were seriously thinking of knitting as a desirable occupation . |
| 12 | With the reduction of the general level of infant mortality , the difference between the two under 20 and over 40 years maternal age groups increased , so that , recently the risk of dying as an infant became for those born to the oldest maternal age group higher relative to that for infants of mothers in the youngest maternal age groups . |
| 13 | Although the author pays lip-service to the idea of climbing as a form of meditation and the reward lying in the process rather than the achievement , the main thrust seems to lie in the opposite direction , in the acquisition of things . |
| 14 | Roddick experienced her first taste of trading as a child while serving in the family café in Littlehampton in Sussex , which is now the centre of her worldwide retailing empire . |
| 15 | Substantial capital may usually be raised by means of trading as a company . |
| 16 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 17 | To the Sumerian , Egyptian and Mycenaean peoples lapis lazuli had the added attraction of appearing as an exotic substance . |
| 18 | By the mid-1920s the disunity which had plagued China since the 191 1 revolution showed some prospect of ending as the Nationalist party , the Guomindang , consolidated its control over large areas of the country . |
| 19 | Palestinian , Israeli and Jordanian officials met with US State Department officials between Aug. 7-13 in an attempt to draw up mutually acceptable memoranda of understanding as a basis for the conference . |
| 20 | In the seventeenth century Herbert saw this kind of understanding as a form of prayer which he describes not only as " God 's breath in man returning to his birth " but as an illumination in terms which Rolle and Hilton would have recognised : Church bels beyond the starres heard , the soul 's bloud , The land of spices ; something understood . |
| 21 | In He drove from Toronto to New York , for example , the spatial entity New York is related to the process of driving as the term of the movement involved in this process . |
| 22 | In addition to doubts about the contracting process , we also take issue with Ham on his singling out of underfunding as the major problem for the future of the NHS . |
| 23 | The products are claimed to be cabable of operating as a client to Novell 's NetWare SAA communications server across Novell and TCP/IP networks . |
| 24 | The first is that the poverty of the farm worker is a thing of the past and that his position has improved considerably since the war-In absolute terms this is obviously true : the farm worker has , along with the rest of the population , steadily raised his standard of living as a result of successive wage increases . |
| 25 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 26 | Instead , conditioned by the nature of the family economy inherited from days of lower wage-dependency , they regarded earnings above those necessary for a customary material standard of living as a surplus which could be spent on leisure , festivities and luxuries . |
| 27 | It is with interest , that I read Amanda Archibald 's recently published notes of her thoughts as a U.K. citizen , now living and working in the U.S.A. By all accounts , she has been profoundly impressed , and she has done a good job in introducing ‘ Contact ’ readers to some of the many positive aspects of living as an expatriate in the U.S.A. As a person proud to enjoy dual nationality of Canada and England , however , I should like to redress the balance somewhat , and question some of Amanda 's blanket statements . |
| 28 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 29 | Sooner or later it occurs to the owner that , for the price of two or three battery changes , it should be possible to make a transformer-rectifier unit capable of acting as a permanent substitute for the battery . |
| 30 | But although he talked of acting as a craft , he took no trouble over it . ’ |