Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , by the time a foal has matured , it has usually come to accept that patting is some peculiar human aberration to indicate friendliness — and accepts it as such . |
| 2 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
| 3 | and old industrial buildings that they 've just taken over and when there 's a crisis in the housing , the state takes over the schools and uses them as refugee centres |
| 4 | Quigley ( 1979 ) confirms this and uses it as a basis for examining alternative language environments . |
| 5 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
| 6 | The first creates a CLI command file that lists the line to a file and then calls the second procedure which cleans it up and uses it as redirected input before exiting . |
| 7 | They must have drunk deeply because the very next week in her column Beatrice introduces her readers to a ‘ charming book of Breton verse by Max Jacob ’ , translates a poem of his and describes him as ‘ one of the few classical critics in the world ’ . |
| 8 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 9 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 10 | The exhibition also represents the first showing of works by Olga Rozanova and reveals her as a very substantial painter who clearly made a crucial contribution to the Russian Avant-garde : the paintings are stunning , both in scale and conception , and the unusual colour contrasts are highly original . |
| 11 | It may be less important to examine the " lowest common denominator " of linguistic usage throughout a work than to study style as a dynamic phenomenon : as something which develops through peaks and valleys of dramatic tension , which not only establishes expectancies , but which frustrates and modifies them as a work progresses . |
| 12 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 13 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 14 | In France the representative bureaucrat involved in space has had an elite technical or scientific education and sees himself as the partner and motivator of the innovative businessman . |
| 15 | That is , the generality of the depression will depend on whether the person 's helpless views extend to all areas of his life ; the length of the depression will depend on how stable his helpless attitudes have become ; and self-esteem will be lowered if the person has internalised his helpless attitudes and sees himself as a failure . |
| 16 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |
| 17 | In his mind 's eye the epic narrator visualizes the personages and events that he is to describe , and sees them as something independent of and outside himself . |
| 18 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 19 | Stanley sees through her facade and sees her as a threat to his marriage , and his affection for Stella . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher has a clear view of her role as Prime Minister and sees herself as an activist rather than an arbitrator in Cabinet disputes or a spokesman for a collective Cabinet view . |
| 21 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 22 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 23 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 24 | She 's totally loyal to Charles , absolutely discreet and sees it as part of her duty to provide Charles with those emotional satisfactions which set him up . ’ |
| 25 | She blames her mother for this and sees it as a sign of inferiority , thus experiencing penis envy and transfers her affections to her father as he has the penis she wants . |
| 26 | example An essay which describes the narrative of Alasdair Gray 's novel Lanark and interprets it as a symbolic representation of the state of contemporary Scotland . |
| 27 | In the film , Helena is a woman who is rescued from a car accident by a doctor who then amputates her injured legs and unhurt arms and keeps her as a hostage in a box , hoping she will fall in love with him . |
| 28 | She knows love , and regards it as the daily currency of life . |
| 29 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 30 | In continuous processes , a filter medium containing manganese dioxide oxidizes the iron and removes it as the ferric hydroxide . |