Example sentences of "or as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its position on abortion itself was hardly ambiguous : the minutes of the Assembly meeting for 1982 point out ‘ [ the Assembly 's ] opposition to abortion on demand for purely social reasons , or as a means of birth control … [ and ] that in exceptional circumstances , where medical abortion might be necessary , the most stringent safeguards should be provided to prevent abuse ’ ( Presbyterian Church in Ireland 1930–86 , General Assembly ( 1982 ) , p. 61 ) . |
| 2 | This can be taken either as a criticism of the actual teaching of the subject or as a remark on the ineffectiveness of schooling on such attitudes in the Northern Ireland context . |
| 3 | Or as a ‘ cry for help ’ to attract attention . |
| 4 | The moment can be as the dancer pauses momentarily in a pose , as a comma in the middle or as a full stop at the end of a sentence . |
| 5 | put the music down in some physical form , like a musical score or as a demo tape . |
| 6 | Then , the amounts due to the society 's writers and publishers are calculated and distributed either as a direct payment to a bank account or as a cheque . |
| 7 | Even The Golden Bough can be read in two ways : as a collection of entertaining myths , or as a revelation of that vanished mind of which our mind is a continuation . ’ |
| 8 | In gender terms this means that it is ‘ precisely when most compelled to see yourself as a woman or as a man , [ that ] you are confronted with the mystery of the other [ sex ] who faces you from across an impassable moral divide ’ ( p. 306 ) . |
| 9 | Dill is traditionally used in many fish dishes , or as a flavouring for vinegars , fresh vegetables , mayonnaise and dressings . |
| 10 | Many look upon them as an opportunity to put training into practice , or as a means of getting their first introduction to the tasks that will face them should they be posted to Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | Otherwise , it had no connection with hops and might be used for cidermaking , housing livestock , or as a cartshed . |
| 12 | The very word , whether used as noun or as a verb , is dismissive . |
| 13 | It could go as a joint European-American force , or as a purely European one . |
| 14 | In the last few years the courts have contrived in effect to extend the substance of a right of occupation to a mistress who has lived on an originally permanent basis with a man , but who has now lost her partner either through death or as a result of some form of desertion . |
| 15 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 16 | She suggests that abortion was probably the most prevalent form of contraception for working-class women before 1914–25 She also notes that chemist shops sold quinine , which could be used as a spermicide or as a drug to procure abortion , that a wide variety of drugs were used to achieve abortion , and that advertisers offered many female pills , such as Widow Welch 's Female Pills and Towle 's Pills , which were , in effect , abortifacients . |
| 17 | Sophisticated pagans were accustomed to reinterpreting the myths of the gods allegorically , either as an imaginative picture-language describing the natural order of the world or as a projection of human psychological states . |
| 18 | Clement wrote the third book of his Miscellanies to attack the Gnostic denial of the goodness of the created order , which lay at the root of their contradictory attitudes to sex , either as a repulsive carnality or as a source of phallic ecstasy . |
| 19 | First , make every effort to know the person who has died , whether you are visiting as someone involved in the funeral arrangements or as a friend who is trying to help . |
| 20 | FIRST-CLASS HOTELS For a really good example of a venue I must point to Washington DC and either the Sheraton/Shoreham hotels ( individually or as a combination ) or the Washington Hilton . |
| 21 | Except in the case of Mary of Guise , however , it is going too far to see this as a general affirmation of enthusiasm for the Auld Alliance , and total alienation from England , or as a means of eradicating Protestantism . |
| 22 | Charles … allowed himself for the sake of a few thousand pounds to be regarded as a greedy and litigious landlord rather than as a just ruler or as a national king . |
| 23 | 75% disappeared from the regulations altogether , whether as a minimum grant-in-aid of teaching costs as in the old regulations or as a maximum as proposed in the Ashby Report : an explanatory memorandum from the Ministry said that the Minister would continue to use this figure as a guide while bearing in mind all the other factors concerned with quality , need , students ' fees and so on . |
| 24 | It can either be used as a ‘ black box ’ analyser with preprogrammed applications and automatic set-up for simple routine analysis , or as a sophisticated tool for application development . |
| 25 | He is little known as a teacher , or as a local preacher , but in fact his first choice of occupation upon leaving school , in Holland , was — to use his own words — ‘ School-mastering and the Church ’ , which occupations he thought were the only professions worthy of consideration . |
| 26 | The repair film is available as patches or as a 3.5m long strip . |
| 27 | Available as separate colours or as a mixture . |
| 28 | Available in separate colours or as a mixture . |
| 29 | Guests may use the small breakfast room at any time for playing cards or as a lounge . |
| 30 | we shall not be responsible nor do we accept liability for death , bodily injury or illness caused to the signatory to the contract and/or to any other named person on the booking form in the course of or as a result of the provision of such services and |