Example sentences of "as [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is no such thing as sexing a grape .
2 Furthermore , I have also set in motion several of my own initiatives as well as sponsoring the suggestions of a couple of other departments .
3 Obviously if we get any additional cash allocation from any source , it will be deployed in er such a way as to treat the patients as soon as possible .
4 ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’
5 He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff .
6 Where appropriate , pointing to the area on one 's own body is helpful or using visual aids , which can be as simple as drawing a diagram while explaining the location of the part .
7 Drawing three-dimensional objects is quite difficult , but for computers the task is almost as easy as drawing a two dimensional object .
8 Pay attention to plants and flowers and make sure that you have your lighting on dimmer switches so that you can dim it right down for dining as well as drawing a veil over any kitchen clutter .
9 But he continued to broadcast and write a weekly column for the Armagh Gazette as well as completing a book of rural tales , And the Band Played On , published by Friar 's Bush Press .
10 Rather it is that Labour needs to defend — and , on these figures , regain — its traditional class base at the same time as completing the process of modernisation and colonising the new political territory of the 1990s .
11 In fact , Hainer Bastian see this exhibition as completing the vision of Picasso presented at the last great retrospective in New York twelve years ago , when the focus was on his Cubist , surrealist and classical phases .
12 Instead we can see it as completing the specification of which operation is to be performed .
13 They explicitly quoted sections of Article 41 or the 1937 constitution so as to support the view of including its provisions in any new all-Ireland constitution .
14 The Holland Report looked explicitly at the issue of employers ' dissatisfaction with young workers and presented its information in such a way as to support the idea of education 's failure in this area .
15 The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers .
16 The multiple choice format can , in this case , be thought of as demanding a similar sort of thinking to that required when checking an answer obtained by measurement or calculation to see if it is sensible .
17 So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community .
18 Haines was a strange mixture , a man with a romantic vision for the future of the first conquest of Queen Victoria 's reign , a skilful politician amongst Arabs but not amongst his fellow-countrymen , with a sailor 's practicality in such matters as building a town but not in administration .
19 Creating a technical structure that allows for a pan-authority electronic mail service is usually as problematic as building the trust and confidence that will allow staff to communicate and make decisions using such a system — let alone remember to log in each day .
20 In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away .
21 It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress .
22 There seemed to be an unspoken acceptance by hon. Members that the present system was less than satisfactory , but that we must avoid at any cost anything as dangerous and revolutionary as suggesting a change .
23 However , close examination of this mosaic , as well as suggesting a surprisingly close relationship with other pavements in the region ( pls. 30 and 34 ) , does reveal some features held in common with the mosaics at North Hill .
24 Also , the associations that will be discussed , and the interpretations of them in postclassical terms that will be offered , should not be seen as suggesting the operation of ‘ causes ’ or ‘ determinants ’ , even where such language has been used by those involved in establishing the associations .
25 As well as suggesting an autumn boost for the tourism industry , the group also proposed changes at the beginning of the season by introducing a fixed-date Easter holiday .
26 In my judgment , however , this is not of any importance as touching the liability of the defendant under his covenants .
27 This great tower loomed over Rome — as indeed it still does although halved by a later earthquake — dominating the Capitol , the Colosseum , the Quirinal and the route from the Lateran to St Peter 's , and was described by one chronicler as touching the clouds .
28 As well as inventing the thin crisp biscuit that bears his name , Sylvester Graham was also the author of one of the most amusing condemnations of sex ever to see the light of day .
29 It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge .
30 By far the most prominent pattern is represented by the regular development of narrow-fronted strip buildings along the main frontages in such a way as to accommodate the maximum number of properties in the space available .
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