Example sentences of "as objects " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , on special occasions the Spanish authorities in America would certainly have erected large representations of the king in this manner , as objects of semi-religious devotion . |
| 2 | It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade . |
| 3 | Within this social spiral , and in a hard and competitive world , the mentally handicapped community are viewed as objects of pity ; , people who are not achieving ; the stuff of charities and benevolence . |
| 4 | Many readers ( and this author too ) might therefore find themselves as objects of analysis . |
| 5 | There is , said Saab , ‘ nothing wrong with the representation of women as objects of desire ’ ; she found them attractive and strong . |
| 6 | Let us make schemata of coloured mandalas and hang them on the mind 's screens as objects of meditation . |
| 7 | Consequently in the western world diamonds were at first not regarded as objects of beauty — other stones such as emeralds and red garnets were preferred . |
| 8 | I like guitars , I think they 're beautiful things , and that 's what I do — I play guitar and therefore I like them as objects . |
| 9 | Non-standard usages should be treated as objects of interest and value , and not ridiculed . |
| 10 | Our churches and cathedrals rot while we build dams and factories to worship as objects . |
| 11 | Work by Raymond and Tompa [ 12 ] has indicated the need for an accurate representation of the fine structure of documents to allow fragments of documents to be referenced and treated as objects of data in their own right . |
| 12 | Rather the company envisages the use of Object Cobol with object-oriented analysis and design , and an analyst will not go into the detail of strings and numbers , but simply view things like accounts and customers as objects . |
| 13 | Bits of both Open Look and Motif are already in there — and some features will be handled as objects — although Cunningham admits it is unlikely to make it up to the XT intrinsics level , on top of which the various interface look and feels are created . |
| 14 | Unix International , the Open Software Foundation , X/Open Group Co Ltd , ISO , the Network Management Forum and the Object Management Group are co-operating in a joint effort to define some generic specifications for managing resources ( as objects ) in distributed , object-based systems . |
| 15 | Lines , circles , text and bitmaps can be superimposed on your chart , and can be manipulated as objects . |
| 16 | Subjectivists regard such instances as anomalous , contrary to principle and therefore as objects of reform . |
| 17 | The exhibition seeks to explain the Buddhist spirituality that is central to Tibetan culture : all the works of art in the exhibition were created as objects of worship . |
| 18 | Pornography is not , as Dworkin ( 1981 ) suggests it is , the main causal agent of women 's subordination , because it is merely one case of a phenomenon that is commonplace : women have been treated as objects throughout history . |
| 19 | In philosophy , for example , there are numerous discussions of objects which refer to some observed attribute or perceptual property pertaining to things as such , but books with titles such as Words and Things ( e.g. Brown 1958 ; Gellner 1959 ) will be found to have very little to say about the social implications of things as objects , while having plenty to contribute to an understanding of the nature of words . |
| 20 | Indeed , hi-tech could be better understood as a set of principles distilled from a collection of material forms than as objects intended to embody prior principles . |
| 21 | The result is to reify popular music , treating songs solely as objects , neglecting their role in cultural practice or ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 22 | Furthermore , it is interesting that he held that they owed this ‘ to an antecedent utility as objects of beauty ’ . |
| 23 | Rather it represents a configuration of several different and mutually interlocking strands , in which substances appear as objects in an intersubjective context . |
| 24 | I analyse the various types of experiential modalities , and in particular the manner in which objects are targeted , and present themselves as objects to our evidential consciousness . |
| 25 | They no longer regarded themselves as objects of charity and resented being so regarded by the hearing world . |
| 26 | As we saw in Chapter 3 , witchcraft and astrology are generally not available in the higher education curriculum , except as objects of study by anthropologists and sociologists . |
| 27 | She thought , listening to the famous film director , that she had not had an experience of oppression , of violence , at least she had not experienced her life in those terms ) : Your interpretation of women sees them as objects of desire , images in advertisements , pin-ups — how are you going to express the inner thoughts of Black Panthers ? |
| 28 | But the stencilled letters and numbers have yet another effect on the paintings in that they serve to stress their quality as objects . |
| 29 | With this assumption in mind Gorbachev told the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1985 that ‘ the newly independent countries do not want to be regarded any longer as objects for profit-making and for installing military bases and strongpoints in their territories ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ You , too , regard women as objects of lust ! ’ |