Example sentences of "but [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A singer of poignant songs , Rikoran was born near Mukden in Manchuria in 1920 of Japanese parents , but lived as a young girl with a Chinese family . |
| 2 | He had married Jemima Mott in 1816 but lived as a childless widower from 1829 after the death of his wife . |
| 3 | Mrs Thatcher , however , claimed that the riots had nothing to do with unemployment and deprivation , but arose as a direct consequence of a lack of discipline within the family and in the schools . |
| 4 | None the less an examination of the special reasons why the Plowden proposition is accepted as a truism in general but treated as an abominable heresy in particular may be worthwhile . |
| 5 | In addition , production taxes not included in this heading but treated as an operating expense of BP Exploration amounted to £995 million , compared with £1,001 million in 1991 . |
| 6 | He was not accepted into the department of meteorology but registered as a student in the department of mathematics , where he wrote a doctoral thesis on ‘ The Theory of Development in Dynamical Meteorology ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is written in the form of letters to God but transcribes as a diary which is a style close to the way Celie speaks , although her later writing matures , it does not lose its frank appeal ! |
| 8 | Hanson , Britain 's largest break-up specialist retains certain parts of the conglomerates which it has taken over , but has as a result itself became a conglomerate — as discussed in the previous subsection . |
| 9 | The decision was a major boost for Scotland 's fish processors who need foreign imports to remain viable , but came as a bitter blow to British fishermen hit by the turmoil at the quayside auctions . |
| 10 | Later he served in the Crimea , officially as medical attendant to Lord Ward but enlisting as a volunteer surgeon with Florence Nightingale . |
| 11 | Line B , however , disambiguates line A. From line B we learn that the " thin thing " is a " tent for dwelling in " , i.e. a tent from the viewpoint of its occupants , a curtain that is both horizontal and vertical , and spread out not to hide the one who spreads it but to serve as a covering for those under it . |
| 12 | The cucullati were strange twilight creatures flitting about in the under-growth and the skirtings of a house , but seen as a potent element of the life-force with their phallic hoods and the garments usually worn by small children . |
| 13 | It is not just A Good Thing , but seen as an important part of the business . |
| 14 | This illustrated the leadership 's caution and carefulness in committing the entire Labour movement to their entry into office in a broad-based coalition headed by a Conservative leader long regarded as the bitter enemy of the movement but recognised as a formidable fighting man — Winston Churchill . |
| 15 | However , without the programme it would have been extinct by 1977 ; it still exists today as a special branch of the Blonde d'Aquitaine , low in numbers but acting as a precious reservoir of interesting dairy-type genes . |
| 16 | That means keeping one 's ears and eyes open , it means not looking away but acting as a witness . |
| 17 | In another year , a capital receipt was credited to the profit and loss account but shown as an extraordinary item . |
| 18 | Now it is no longer used for worship , but acts as a useful starting point to the day 's walking . |
| 19 | Often the houseparent is a married woman whose husband goes out to work but acts as a father to the children in the evenings and at weekends . |
| 20 | King , reviled by many , but acknowledged as an expert in the cynical exploitation of the pop world sniped : ‘ I thought when Kylie Minogue did ‘ I Should Be So Lucky , Lucky , Lucky , ’ it was one of the most awful things I have ever heard . |
| 21 | Newfoundland is not only the the island on the south coast of but includes as a continent . |
| 22 | Robert Romanyshyn 's central thesis is that psychological life is not part of the material world or of an inner subjectivity separate from that world but exists as a form of mediation between the two . |
| 23 | It is the deepest wish of the author , a member of the Wildlife Association of Southern India , that this embargo will become a permanent situation and that a national consciousness will not permit the continued destruction of the Cobra , which performs not only a biologically and environmentally essential function but exists as a symbol of life itself . |
| 24 | Dr McGowan , the Chief Medical Officer , reported to the County Secretary that there was no immediate danger to the public health but called as a matter of urgency for a resolution to the problem , as lead is a cumulative poison : ‘ The continual exposure of people to such high levels of lead is a definite health hazard and remedies to have this matter rectified should be carried out as a matter of urgency ’ . |
| 25 | In his ‘ Closing statement ’ Jakobson does not explicitly reject this view , which after all he played an important part in developing ; but speaking as a linguist he insists that the difference between poetic and non-poetic texts can be explained in purely linguistic terms . |
| 26 | Astrid Klein was trained at art school but began as a writer . |
| 27 | Whilst the stipend supported him and his growing family , he probably never resided there but served as a chaplain in the Royal Army ; in this capacity he was taken prisoner in 1645 in an attack on Cardigan Castle in Wales . |
| 28 | ACT on the proposed dividend should not be included with the dividend , but included as a current tax liability . |
| 29 | ACT on the proposed dividend should not be included with the dividend , but included as a current tax liability . |
| 30 | Because decision-makers in the political arena have conflicting objectives , policy measures are not chosen with a view to maximizing some conception of social welfare , but emerge as the result of implicit and explicit bargaining between the political interests . |