Example sentences of "[vb past] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As a former category A authority , Westminster SSD is one of five the DoH categorised as having a high incidence of HIV . |
| 4 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 5 | He put her suitcases down in the driveway and reached into the boot to pass her a carry-case which Belinda recognised as containing a portable monitor , something like an electrically amplified stethoscope , which meant that it was often possible for a pregnant woman to hear her baby 's heartbeat as early as ten weeks into the pregnancy . |
| 6 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 7 | The pace of urbanization accelerated as did the development of civil society visible before 1905 . |
| 8 | The agreement , subject to negotiation of final terms and conditions , provides that $8m , which was due on March 1 , will be due for repayment on December 31 1993 , and the other $8m on March 1 , 1994 ; Commodore and Prudential also agreed in principle to extend a March 1 $5m senior note repayment to December 31 , and the company said it paid as scheduled the remaining $12.5m senior note maturities due to Prudential and to another of its lenders . |
| 9 | Of course , these single-employer estates are not closed social fields : indeed , social networks extend outwards from the estates to include other colleagues employed by the same company who live elsewhere in Dunrossness , and perhaps also include a few Shetlanders perceived as having an equal social status . |
| 10 | Not once is Jesus recorded as challenging the oppression of women . |
| 11 | The facts , as we perceive them , do suggest the existence of a coordinating intelligence at work behind the scenes , possibly an aspect of that same life energy , or vital force , which we already saw as having an organizing and integrating function in the individual living organism . |
| 12 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 13 | The distribution of types of artefact dated by the typological method were compared with historical information , particularly recorded battles between the Anglo-Saxons and the native population , which he saw as marking the stages by which the migrants conquered the country . |
| 14 | Twenty years on , the phrases which she saw as indicating a deformation of values have become commonplace in the Thatcherite academy , where contemplation is regarded as idleness , rather than the other way round , and Leavis 's abominated ‘ technologico-Benthamism ’ is firmly in the saddle . |
| 15 | One source of controversy had been the plan 's provision for a total of $27,000 million in foreign investment , especially in the oil and petrochemicals sector , which hardliners saw as compromising the country 's independence . |
| 16 | Alice felt as thought the words were stones , rolling out of her mouth , bruising the air around them . |
| 17 | The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners . |
| 18 | In her case , perhaps , it was not so much leaving a group that hurt as leaving a stage . |
| 19 | A measure actually intended to achieve the unpopular objective of raising revenue so as to remedy a funding deficit may , for example , be linked to and presented as instituting a new and desirable benefit . |
| 20 | Once transferred to series production , so many defects emerged as to make the consignment unusable . |
| 21 | What was it that the lenders had to offer potential borrowers at this time , facilities which would help solvent individuals to meet ‘ special ’ capital expenditure — buying a boat , adding a conservatory — which they did not wish to , and maybe could not , take out of an adequate income without upsetting the household budget , and many credit traders ( mostly credit brokers , agents who ‘ arranged ’ loans from moneylenders in the style of stockbrokers ) highlighted as meeting the needs of those already in debt ? |
| 22 | The only parts of the experimental area where there are no facilities for cyclists are in those residential streets that are sufficiently lightly and slowly trafficked as to constitute no danger to cyclists sharing the roadway with cars . |
| 23 | But the relation of labourism to the working class was passive ; it accepted as given the position of the class and its organisations in an historically-evolved bourgeois society . |
| 24 | He condemned the ruler of Iraq , Saddam Hussein for invading Kuwait , an act which he qualified as violating the principles of international law and of the United Nations . |
| 25 | It is clear from the evidence of wills from all social classes up to the sovereign himself that society valued the spiritual input of those whose dying to worldly values ( at their enclosure the burial service was read over them ) was not regarded with jokey discomfort as disturbingly eccentric , but valued as contributing a unique gift to a total social welfare . |
| 26 | Wallace was straight through on goal and missed as did the Tottenham player Barmby in the first half . |