Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholder monitoring may be depicted as taking an owner-like , internal form , involving scrutiny of management and replacement of under-performing directors via the company 's democratic channels , or an external form , whereby dissatisfied shareholders dispose of shares in the market , possibly triggering the removal of the board via the market for corporate control . |
| 2 | Isis was usually depicted as wearing a large pair of cow 's horns — an animal which was sacred to her — between which a disc representing the moon was suspended . |
| 3 | Middle-class children , on the other hand , drew explicit attention to the test conditions : ‘ this is a picture ; in the picture a boy is depicted as kicking a ball through a window … ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 4 | Thus where the buyer commits an anticipatory repudiation which the seller fails to accept as terminating the contract , the seller will be liable if he himself subsequently fails to perform the contract . |
| 5 | The BM is designed to accept as input a setting of some of its visible switches , and provide as output settings of the remaining visible switches . |
| 6 | My proposal will , I know , appear as selling the pass , to traditionalist teachers of English Literature , and perhaps upset them , which I am sorry for . |
| 7 | I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . |
| 8 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 9 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 10 | Okay so they 're a few options to try as regards the coding |
| 11 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 12 | All the above types of violation of a person 's autonomy involve what Kant described as treating the person as a means to someone else 's end , and not as an end in themselves . |
| 13 | One can read off what will count as obeying an order from the order itself . |
| 14 | In response to the coup the Prime Minster , Alfonso de los Heros Perez Alba , immediately resigned as did the Attorney General , Pedro Méndez Jurado , who was replaced by Hugo Ernesto Denegri Cornejo . |
| 15 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 16 | The particular business can be briefly summarized as filling the vacant patriarchate of Constantinople , hearing the primatial claims of the archbishop of Toledo and dealing with the heresy in the lands of the count of Toulouse . |
| 17 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 18 | The mother is reported as believing the separation is in Matthew 's best interests . |
| 19 | The referendum result was reported as approving the proposal by a margin of 62 per cent to 33 per cent ( 5 per cent spoiled votes ) , and the proposal was carried in 14 of the 16 states . |
| 20 | Before the High Court ruling , opposition parties had been reported as considering a boycott , amid allegations that Moi 's Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) was attempting to rig the elections . |
| 21 | The Civic Democratic Party was reported as favouring a continued federal structure , while the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia argued for a confederation of two sovereign states each of which would be a separate legal entity in international law . |
| 22 | Thatcher was reported as wanting the CSCE to set out the conditions for free elections , provide observers to monitor their observance , define the rule of law and human rights , set out the essential principles for sound legal systems and help to resolve minority rights issues . |
| 23 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 24 | Only 40 per cent of this age group was reported as having a freezer in 1986 , and the majority was therefore less able to store perishable goods . |
| 25 | Andropulos , whom Grierson had reported as having a remarkable affinity for scotch , seemed relaxed to the point of garrulity . |
| 26 | Being mostly confined to Buckinghamshire , the handful of parsons reported as having no personal property serve as much as anything to highlight doubts about the approach to clerical assessments there . |
| 27 | Lancashire was reported as asking the ministry to ‘ prescribe it under the Weeds Act 1959 ’ . |
| 28 | The referendum was reported as recording an 87.01 per cent turnout and 99.87 per cent approval for sovereignty for Kosovo . |
| 29 | In September 1989 , following a private conference , the Lord Justice was reported as launching an education programme for judges on sentencing and treatment of child sex abusers . |
| 30 | Only one member of the feudal class , Sir Robert Knolles , is reported as playing a major part in the attack on the rebels in London , although the earl of Suffolk and Bishop Despenser of Norwich were prominent in the repression in East Anglia . |