Example sentences of "as [v-ing] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | he vigorously used an ancient notion of personal worth as resting in an original standard substance , and variation as introduced by society . |
| 2 | Thus , in the US insider trading may be defined as trading in an issuer 's securities ( or communicating or ‘ tipping ’ ) while in possession of material non-public information relating to the issuer 's securities or the market for those securities . |
| 3 | The individual sees himself as contributing to an indefinite process of inquiry by an unlimited community of inquirers , and he may well not believe that he will be around to see inquiry converge on the truth ( 5.589 , 2.652ff . ) . |
| 4 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 5 | It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) . |
| 6 | In contrast , the military orders like the Knights Templar undertook serious duties in protecting poor pilgrims from marauding bands of Moslems , as well as acting as an independent body of warrior-monks . |
| 7 | He is to take over not only the redevelopment of derelict inner-city sites , a major initiative in itself , but also the overlordship of the ten ( soon to be 12 ) Urban Development Corporations , as well as acting as an English development agency , attracting foreign companies to English towns and cities in the same way as he did for Wales . |
| 8 | But they see policy-level bureaucrats as either directly controlled by an external business elite or as acting in an implicitly biased way to defend the social interests of people with similar backgrounds , incomes and interests to themselves . |
| 9 | He became the characters in Homer or the tragedies , and made his audience feel they were seeing the drama as well as listening to an interpretation . |
| 10 | Was Willis reading too much into their behaviour by seeing their ‘ resistance ’ as leading to an awareness of their class position ? |
| 11 | But it is difficult to see these factors as amounting to an absolute restriction when put against the equally well recorded government support for overcapacity and inefficient working . |
| 12 | Analysts interpreted the measures as amounting to an indirect 5-10 per cent devaluation of the peso , forced on the government despite its policy , first implemented in March 1991 [ see pp. 38095-96 ] , of free convertibility of the peso against the US dollar . |
| 13 | In a society in which the king was regarded as God 's regent , rebellion was seen as rising against an authority divinely appointed . |
| 14 | It is not so difficult , in these circumstances , to accept that at least one of the pilgrim-tellers should be represented as speaking through an incongruously feigned mouthpiece , in this case strengthening the antifeminist line of the tale by purporting to speak as a woman . |
| 15 | The argument of this paper , therefore , is that language learning should be seen as resulting from an interaction between an organism pre-adapted to the learning task and an environment which , to varying degrees , facilitates that task by providing the evidence that the organism requires . |
| 16 | It is also what is involved when modern descriptions of the moon 's trajectory are retained and observation statements referring to the fact that the moon is much larger when it is near the horizon than when it is high in the sky are regarded as resulting from an illusion , even though the cause of the illusion is not well understood . |
| 17 | There are certain academic precedents , particularly the uncontroversial establishment in a number of universities of degrees in drama , which do work previously thought of as belonging to an English degree . |
| 18 | They are regarded as belonging to an earlier age of superstition and ignorance . |
| 19 | Most of the evidence we find for full-time craftsmen nevertheless comes from the temples of the Middle and Late Minoan periods , so we should see the main period of craft industries as belonging to an urban society and in particular to the temples within that urban society . |
| 20 | We can dismiss inflight editorial wholesale , slag off any other editorial we do n't like as belonging to an inflight magazine , and just generally have something to feel superior to . |
| 21 | Spain 's war with England in February 1656 put the Spanish subjects in the Jewish community at risk , and when the goods and ships of a fellow Marrano Antonio Rodrigues Robles were seized as belonging to an enemy alien , Carvajal finally joined with Manasseh ben Israel and five others on 24 March 1656 in petitioning the Protector for a formal statement permitting Jewish residence . |
| 22 | You can visualise the inputs as coming from an array of photo-electric cells , which we call its retina . |
| 23 | " The capability is there , " the newspaper quoted Khan as saying in an interview . |
| 24 | Kurunagala and parts of the districts bordering it were singled out as suffering from an inordinate amount of cattle theft . |
| 25 | Also during the period 1973–79 , there was an annual average of nearly 14,000 persons diagnosed as suffering from an occupationally induced disease . |
| 26 | The guardian ad litem had been to a well known and eminent consultant psychiatrist , who described L. as suffering from an ‘ emotional disorder characterised by anxious , withdrawn and fearful behaviour accompanied by temper tantrums . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I see it as culminating in an annual event , perhaps a convention and a festival which would tie in with other events like Africa Oye . |
| 28 | We see the new concern as arising in an era of restraint , but see that the case for value for money stands apart from the political stance taken — whether it is for or against cuts in local government expenditure . |
| 29 | The former damage will be viewed as the result of ‘ destructive hooliganism ’ and dealt with accordingly , whilst the latter will be seen as arising from an excess of good-natured high spirits and over-enthusiasm . |
| 30 | Consequently a development described as arising from an increase in Ra may sometimes be illustrated by a picture taken at lower Ra but also lower Pr . |