Example sentences of "[noun sg] do [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |
| 2 | If individual deterrence did work as the theory suggests , we would expect that if we introduced a new kind of harsh punishment designed to deter , the offenders who suffered the new punishment would be measurably less likely to re-offend than similar offenders who underwent a more lenient penalty . |
| 3 | Theridamas is supposed to be all that Persia stands for , even to the extent that he is ‘ the hope of Persia , and the very legs whereon our state doth lean as on a staff ’ . |
| 4 | If that was n't a threat it was a Jolly Decent Thing To Do seeing as how he was about to blow himself up . |
| 5 | My soul did hang as in a pair of scales , sometimes up and sometimes down , now in peace and anon in terror . ’ |