Example sentences of "as [art] [noun sg] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason the Open Software Foundation missed the boat with its Architecture Neutral Distribution Format technology , according to observers , is that it wrongly targeted independent software vendors as the home for its solution . |
| 2 | We do not intend to set up an alternative formal system ( uninterpreted in itself ) to act as the interpretation for our syntax , and we shall not just specify patterns of co-occurring word classes on the supposition that causal factors are described by exhibiting the phenomena they govern ( or , worse , that the two are the same ) ; this mistake , which has been widely made , reverses the logical priorities — rather as if one were to answer an enquiry about the underlying geological structure of a region by offering aerial photographs of the terrain . |
| 3 | The general election of that year was boycotted by Mosley , using the less than inspiring slogan of ‘ Fascism next time ’ as the rationale for his decision . |
| 4 | Having said all that , it may seem bizarre , not to say brutal , to recommend milk-fed lamb as the stuff for your Easter feasting , but we return to tradition . |
| 5 | Our principal exposure to the public arose from the chance that Her Majesty the Queen became interested and used Motability as the centre for her Christmas address in 1981 . |
| 6 | Last week , DEC picked Tuesday November 10 as the day for its Alpha launch . |
| 7 | Quite a few of my classmates had done their speeches and I was getting really nervous as the day for my turn drew closer and closer . |
| 8 | The house was used by Cynthia Harnet as the location for her children 's historic novel , ‘ Stars of Fortune ’ . |
| 9 | As individuals who used language as the medium for their art they probably take us closer than any other kind of creative person to the heart of our topic ; given , that is , the nature of psychosis as a disorder , essentially , of linguistic expression . |
| 10 | They used as the base for their attack a campsite in the vicinity . |
| 11 | We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine . |
| 12 | He argues ‘ though God exists totally outside of culture , while humans exist totally within culture , God chooses the cultural milieu in which humans are immersed as the arena for his interaction with people ’ ( Kraft 1979:114 ) . |
| 13 | We use the dynamic competitive firm operating under spot price uncertainty as the vehicle for our analysis , though it should be emphasized that it is not the firm per se that interests us but , rather , the risk , the dynamics , the complexity , and the optimality . |
| 14 | The economic theory that we use as the vehicle for our analysis is the familiar theory of the dynamic competitive firm operating under spot price uncertainty . |
| 15 | This is because coalition partners in a fragmented system demand public spending for pet schemes as the price for their support . |
| 16 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | One can recognise easily why so many later European commentators extolled classical Greece as the model for their contemporaries since the material conditions of these changes from rural to urban , from aristocracy to bourgeoisie , and from oligarchy to proto-democracy similarly characterised their own social situation . |
| 19 | It was clear why Miguel had chosen Santa Barbara as the site for his development . |
| 20 | As the hunt for his wife went on Mr Probyn , 33 , appealed to Tania — or anyone who knew where she was — to contact police or family . |
| 21 | And which countries , one wonders , would be willing to finance the replacement of China 's abundant coal as the fuel for its power stations with less polluting natural gas , or underwrite double-glazing in Chinese homes as a major contribution to energy efficiency ? |
| 22 | erm the ostensible subject of this passage is that he 's now finished with hell and heaven as the setting for his poems , and he 's coming down to earth for what is left . |
| 23 | The prosecution say Mr Probyn was laying the ground for his defence as the search for his wife continued . |
| 24 | The proposals of the six schools selected as the focus for our evaluation are representative of the range of proposals reviewed , and the evaluators are satisfied that the picture which emerges from this sample is true to the general flavour and direction of the Major Project as a whole . |
| 25 | This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical . |
| 26 | If we 're going to use The Circus as the theme for our drama we need to consider another dramatic frame than simply putting together all the different acts , for example : |
| 27 | Such beliefs are often found in systems of racial stratification where , for example , whites might claim biological superiority over blacks and see this as the basis for their dominance . |
| 28 | Opponents rejected natural selection outright and revived pre-Darwinian theories such as Lamarckism and saltationism as the basis for their claim that evolution could not be the totally haphazard process depicted by Darwin 's theory . |
| 29 | When children entered school the task of the teacher was to measure the strengths and the weaknesses of each child and to use this yardstick as the basis for her teaching . |
| 30 | This is even less proven that NBI 's and , unlike Legend which uses Microsoft 's Windows as the basis for its integration , provides its own environment . |