Example sentences of "about [noun sg] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Photogravure was much in use during the Photo-Secession period in the early years of the 20th century — a time of intense seriousness about photography as a vehicle of genuine graphic art and of intense interest in Japanese aesthetics . |
| 2 | Throwing Muses are one of a handful of groups who write about adolescence as a period of maladjustment and withdrawal , who resist the now-pop version of youth as healthy , extrovert , unproblematic hedonism . |
| 3 | About physics as a subject she was enthusiastic ; but she was unhappy about the degree course . |
| 4 | I find it quite ghastly being at home and not working — I LONG to get a job , and meantime , YOUR FATHER and I must be careful about money as the State only gives me £40 a week for everything including local tax ( POLL TAX ) , heating , food , gas , electricity and phone and so on . |
| 5 | In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well . |
| 6 | ‘ The first thing I learned about nutrition as a nurse was that white food — fish and potatoes , for example — on white plates , with a white parsley sauce is unappetising purely because of its boring appearance . |
| 7 | When talking about nutrition as the input of calories to the body , outputs and calorie usage must be discussed . |
| 8 | ‘ We have instituted a range of education-based schemes in schools like talking about vandalism as a crime , developing crime prevention panels and other measures . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ In the Southern Hemisphere they talk about rugby as a product . |
| 10 | The article goes on to refer to whether hard scientific evidence about hypnosis as an aid to the recall of memory can ‘ help the police to use hypnosis safely ’ . |
| 11 | He finds a way of talking about England , about right , about courage as a sort of secular sainthood , and it is his words , acting on his army , that bring France down . |
| 12 | I do n't see what 's so sinister about biology as a hypothesis . |
| 13 | I do n't know that much about wine as a subject — you really need the time and the inclination to study it properly . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's funny , because people talk about rock'n'roll as the music of rebellion . |
| 15 | The Whigs mangle the ‘ Paint It Black ’ riff and insert it vigorously and repeatedly into the dry , dusty shell of a sad song about masturbation as a lifestyle priority rather than an optional extra . |
| 16 | He was certainly thinking about fusion as a source of heat in the Earth . |
| 17 | Her husband was having a heated argument with a short fat woman about television as an inducement to juvenile delinquency . |
| 18 | The Drowners says quite a lot about Suede as a concept in that it showcases the way we work rhythms into a song , the aggressive bite of the guitar lines , the drawled vocals and the kind of things it talks about . ’ |
| 19 | And I I mean , for example , he was talking about astrology as a way of predicting . |
| 20 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 21 | Now it 's the turn of Jennifer Jason Leigh ( pictured ) and Jason Patric to ( respectively ) moan and mumble as they make tracks across the border separating responsible undercover police work from plain strung-out weirdness in this month 's Rush , Lili Fini Zanuck 's sombre adaptation of Kim Wozencraft 's semi-autobiographical novel about life as a narcotics cop in Seventies Texas . |
| 22 | The fact that one of the most outstanding cricketers of all time was Colin Bland , it says a lot about cricket as an athletic and gripping sport . |
| 23 | Simmel uses Marx 's writings about fetishism as the basis for a general theory of the negative aspects of modern culture ( 1968 : 42 ) . |
| 24 | Teachers ' reasons for selecting the most popular texts are discussed , as are their views about gender as a potential organizing principle for their work . |
| 25 | The Committee was not without its own misgivings about non-cohabitation as a prerequisite for prosecution for marital rape . |
| 26 | There is a central theme about information as a means to power . |
| 27 | Moreover , the use of recall as a measure of memory may have meant that subjects were using thoughts about risk as a retrieval cue , indeed they may have assumed that it was this information that the experimenter was most interested in . |
| 28 | Children whose families come , for example , from the Caribbean , from countries in Africa or from the Indian subcontinent can greatly enrich discussion about English as a world language and about literature and drama as world concepts . |
| 29 | Skinner was trying to talk about psychology as a science because a lot of psychology at the time was n't and if you ask pe I 'm sorry that my sort of talking 's coinciding with people 's conversations but er er will you try and finish it . |
| 30 | It is not clear whether this motivation arises from a pragmatic desire to influence other people in order to achieve common objectives , or whether social interactions act as a catalyst for the child 's intrinsic curiosity about language as a system for communicating with other people . |