Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 2 | I shall do all that I can to arouse public opinion against the portrayal of vice as a normal condition of affairs , and against depicting criminals of any class as heroes and heroines , presenting their filthy philosophy of life as something acceptable to decent men and women . |
| 3 | However , this is to misunderstand the nature of culture as something external to us . |
| 4 | It 's always taken twice , three times the length of time as anybody else ? |
| 5 | If we were to seek an explanation in the fact that Gandhi , as we have seen , does not equate ahi sā with non-killing and notes the distinction between ahi sā and hi sā by indicating that hi sā means killing from motives of anger or selfishness and ahi sā means refraining from so doing , then it might be possible to be a believer in ahi sā and yet kill , provided the killing is not prompted by angry or selfish motives and is performed with detachment as one 's duty . |
| 6 | All his political thinking is refracted in the films through personal dramas , which bear the stamp of his preoccupation with politics as something which is about individual people , rather than issues or abstractions like the masses of the nation . |
| 7 | An engine with good torque back-up will not lose as many revs for a given increase in load as one with poor back-up . |
| 8 | But he also followed the normal practice of Greek historians in treating an army at war as something independent of the political organization which had created it . |