Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 What is the attitude of Snowden towards MacDonald as revealed by this extract ?
2 Bob Cools , the town 's socialist mayor ( who spells his first name the ordinary way ) , complained about a show of Antwerp as seen by foreign photographers ; he said locals could have done the job better .
3 V. iv , death of Richard as performed in a private theatre , PP 49 .
4 Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) .
5 Christian spoke of Nahum as belonging to the new generation of his people , an educated man and a future spokesman for them .
6 The engagement with Marxism has been largely through contact with structuralist traditions and in particular with the work of Althusser as mediated through Castells ( 1977 ) .
7 But do you and or your members place greater weight on the impact on that particular part of Knaresborough as opposed to the impact on Knaresborough and Harrogate generally ?
8 ‘ Nothing can exceed the energy and magnificence of the character of Satan as expressed in Paradise Lost . ’
9 COMMENT ON THE BIRTH OF JESUS AS RECORDED BY LUKE
10 I recalled that in the New Testament , in the life of Jesus as written in the first four books , there were many psychic happenings .
11 Not many developing countries would now see the activities of TNCs as impinging on their sovereignty … there are clear indications of a new pragmatic approach which comes from the growing belief that developing countries can negotiate agreements with TNCs in which the benefits of foreign investments are not necessarily outweighed by the cost ’ ( UNCTC , 1988a : p. 314 ) .
12 Furthermore , as Henry VIII had relied on the authority of scripture to justify his annulment , it was difficult for him to resist pressure for the translation of the Bible into English , or demands that doctrine and liturgy should conform to the word of God as revealed in the scriptures .
13 To begin with , liberal theologians thought of the Holy Spirit of God as speaking to contemporary man through those elements in Bible or Church tradition which accorded best with their own insights .
14 His acceptance of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of the manyness of reality ’ , by which he probably means that reality can be conceived of in many different ways , makes it possible for him to approve of the non-creative aspect of God as propounded by the Jains , and the creative aspect of God as propounded by Rāmānuja the foremost exponent of the Viśi ādvaita position .
15 His acceptance of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of the manyness of reality ’ , by which he probably means that reality can be conceived of in many different ways , makes it possible for him to approve of the non-creative aspect of God as propounded by the Jains , and the creative aspect of God as propounded by Rāmānuja the foremost exponent of the Viśi ādvaita position .
16 Just in case the lesson does n't hit us immediately , Paul adds the closing verse of our reading which draws our attention to the greatness of God as shown in His glory :
17 Speaking in 1833 , the Cambridge geologist and cleric Adam Sedgwick referred both to the wisdom of God as manifested in creation and to the wisdom of the association in seeking to transcend political and religious divisions .
18 The conquest of Jerusalem as shown in the fifteenth-century Chroniques de Charlemagne .
19 It began by quoting Pope Paul VI — ‘ the church is certainly not willing to restrict her action only to the religious field ’ — and continued with a critique of Malawi as fashioned by Dr Banda : ‘ A growing gap between rich and poor … a struggle for survival … deplorable wage structure … a deplorable price paid to farmers for some of their crops … bribery and nepotism … an atmosphere of resentment … a climate of mistrust and fear . ’
20 Nearer to the Buid , Morris has described the Melanau of Borneo as living in a ‘ highly diversified social environment in which many cultural and linguistic groups are interspersed with and closely related to one another ’ ( 1967 : 216 ) .
21 In the history of Britain as taught in schools and conventionally rendered , the great event of modern times was the industrial revolution .
22 Yoshida held that Chinese communism would prove very different from the Russian variety and that the historical and cultural values of China would assert themselves over the principles of Marxism-Leninism as applied by Moscow .
23 LEFT The surface of Mars as photographed in 1976 by Viking 2 .
24 A species is a population of interbreeding individuals ; more precisely , because we do not want to regard the blue tits on the Isle of Wight as belonging to a different species to those on the mainland , a species is a group of actually or potentially interbreeding populations .
25 There was no duress in a sense of an actual or threatened interference with the person or property of Woolwich as occurred in many of the cases ( though I am of the view that the notion of duress or coercion should not be narrowly confined ) .
26 The patients who had had gastric surgery had several symptoms , but there was no association between the number or nature of symptoms and the severity of DGR as determined by the sodium electrode .
27 There was no association between the number of symptoms and the severity of DGR as determined by the sodium electrode ( Table I ) .
28 There was no correlation between the results of provocation testing and the severity of DGR as determined by the sodium electrode .
29 Article 57 of the Treaty of Rome as amended by the Maastricht Treaty requires the Council to issue directives for ‘ the mutual recognition of diplomas , certificates and other evidence of formal qualification ’ so that anyone who qualifies in one member state is allowed to work freely in another .
30 He refused to consecrate new bishops independent of Rome as demanded by the Chinese authorities from April 1958 , and was arrested .
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