Example sentences of "[to-vb] as [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 2 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 3 | I think we 're going to go as a council in the direction of not answering letters on time . |
| 4 | It is recognised , however , that it may be appropriate to include as an element of the CPE programme , time spent on the development of interpersonal or management skills . |
| 5 | The use of the mouth to caress and suck the genitals of either sex is more likely to produce disgust in some people , and is treated by many who indulge in oral sex as a ‘ problem ’ , an activity they have learned to see as a deviation from normal sexual activity . |
| 6 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 7 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 8 | However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand . |
| 9 | This rationality it came to see as the basis of a universal culture ; the justification for its claim to define universal values , to define its values as universal . |
| 10 | While weighing up the merits of the posts of legal advisor to the Girls Public Day School Trust versus running a legal advice centre in a South London Mental Hospital , she was invited to sit as a Judge on the South-East Circuit and then , of course , her mind was made up . |
| 11 | As the search began in January 1989 for 12 people who had never watched his testimony to sit as a jury at North 's trial , one cartoonist imagined it would have to be composed of mujahedin from Afghanistan ; a satirist announced that the first two jurors selected were Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling , the pandas from Washington Zoo . |
| 12 | The bishop declared that for a clerk in holy orders to sit as a justice in eyre for forest pleas was contrary to the canons of the Church , and rendered him ineligible for an office involving the cure of souls . |
| 13 | But the young Conservative member , whom Beatrice Webb thought the most brilliant man in the House of Commons , crossed the floor to sit as an independent in protest against the use of torture to interrogate Sinn Fein prisoners in 1920 . |
| 14 | It might have been better in the present case to regard the omission to caution as a breach of the spirit of the Code rather than a breach of the Code itself . |
| 15 | A settlement of the longstanding dispute could lead to the United Kingdom reducing its military commitment to the country , although Price had asked the UK to remain as a guarantor against possible Guatemalan aggression . |
| 16 | Most preferred to remain as a supplier to the trade , others advertising their ability to furnish funerals in addition to their daily trade . |
| 17 | The embattled Arts Council sketches its own position in its newly published Draft National Arts and Media Strategy : ‘ We shall campaign for the arts funding system to remain as an intermediary between government and the arts ’ . |
| 18 | Showmanship was to remain as the hallmark of the movies . |
| 19 | I had borrowed one of Norris 's big paramilitary-style fawn shirts to wear as a jacket over my anti Poll Tax T-shirt . |
| 20 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 21 | Once you have accepted the offer and the position has been suitably documented , you will hardly ever be able to persuade a court or tribunal to upset it unless you can convince them that you were forced to agree as a result of economic duress . |
| 22 | It is the defendant 's case that the plaintiff was at all times , pushing to proceed as a matter of urgency on the deal . |
| 23 | Its strength was a nose for commerce which soon manifested itself , so that by the twelfth century , the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle as the power of the merchants correspondingly grew . |
| 24 | For my own purposes , I propose to treat as a way of life argument any claim that a particular policy decision would have significant consequences for the demographic , economic or social life of a community , or that it would significantly affect the atmosphere or symbolic existence of that community . |
| 25 | Let us now suppose that our government falls under the influence of economists who advise it to treat as a trade off relation in the manner outlined above . |
| 26 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 27 | Once Paul 's cult began to crystallise as a religion in itself , rather than a form of Judaism , it dictated certain priorities which had not obtained in Jesus 's lifetime and which Jesus himself would unquestionably have deplored . |
| 28 | The Club had to decide , said Brower , whether to continue as a society of companions on the trail or take the position that ‘ the entire environment is the proper province of conservationists ’ . |
| 29 | Bolivia nevertheless wanted to continue as a member of the Acuerdo de Cartagena or Andean Pact ( involving Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru and Venezuela — ibid . ) . |
| 30 | It is also possible to continue as a graduate without eh thought occurring . |