Example sentences of "as something to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite its title , and for all Fraser 's grave and civil investigative demeanour , the book does not exhibit this past as something to be searched for , uncovered , so much as something which is unfindable , interminable . |
| 2 | No one would deny that enterprise and competitiveness are important ; but what we see around us today is the elevation of self-interest as something to be applauded . |
| 3 | IN THE EDWARDIAN world in which Patricia Cockburn grew up , writes James Pettifer ( further to the Obituary by Richard Ingrams , 9 October ) , there were rational certainties : the family bank , as an Arbuthnot ; the Empire , as a source of employment and , in the case of the grandparents , huge wealth from China ; and within the Empire , the natural world , as something to be explored , revered , loved . |
| 4 | The article goes on to quote from Michael Polaryi who , I am sure , would have been horrified to see how intent these researchers are on isolating emotion as something to be ‘ switched on ’ and ‘ portrayed ’ . |
| 5 | Thus , as with biological theories , crime is seen as pathological ( a disease ) , as something to be looked at from the medical point of view . |
| 6 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 7 | This is probably the reason for its universal acceptance as something to be cherished , and for its survival despite all religious disapproval which from time to time has endeavoured to denigrate it , as did for example , some of the teachings of Puritanism . |
| 8 | Twenty-five years ago , a building contract was regarded by surveyors , clients and contractors alike as something to be signed , put away in a filing cabinet and brought out only in the unlikely event of a dispute . |
| 9 | In addition , many local people , regarding the environment as something to be exploited in order to make a living whether as a farmer or as a fisherman , had little sympathy for the idea of landscape protection or conservation . |
| 10 | The authoritarian philosophy , according to the authors , sees the press as something to be controlled because it is a potential nuisance ; there is little or no conception of the press as a possibly positive contributor to human progress and development . |
| 11 | In brief , Locke followed Thomas Hobbes in thinking of language as something to be understood in terms of thoughts . |
| 12 | Wittgenstein , on the other hand , thought of thinking as something to be understood in terms of language ; and of the meaningfulness of a linguistic utterance as something to be understood in terms of a linguistic practice . |
| 13 | Wittgenstein , on the other hand , thought of thinking as something to be understood in terms of language ; and of the meaningfulness of a linguistic utterance as something to be understood in terms of a linguistic practice . |
| 14 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 15 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 16 | When we speak of freedom as something to be highly prized , we mean a positive power or capacity for doing or enjoying something worth doing , and that , too , something that we do or enjoy in common with others . |
| 17 | At its best the combination is uniquely potent — a controlled conflagration which almost scorches the ear , a sense of communicative intensity not as an optional extra , or even as something to be striven for , but as a constant presence , only waiting to be channelled in the right direction . |
| 18 | It could be seen therefore as its own safeguard provided by the people against a particular form of exploitation of the people ; and hence as something to be excepted on pragmatic grounds from the general case for nationalisation or municipalisation . |
| 19 | As a result the police treat them as something to be overcome rather than respected . |
| 20 | Farmers regard the landscape as a factor of production and a source of profit ; supporters of the environmental movement , on the other hand , look upon the countryside as a source of visual pleasure and as a habitat for wildlife — as something to be ‘ consumed ’ . |
| 21 | The Romantic enthusiasm for the wilderness co-existed with a more practical attitude in which Nature was seen as something to be explored and catalogued . |
| 22 | It can mean that theory must be destabilised — ‘ destabilising ’ as something to be done to theory . |
| 23 | There was so much new knowledge in science , and degrees in science came to be seen as an alternative to degrees in classics or mathematics rather than as something to be done afterwards as an optional extra , or taken as a merely voluntary course of lectures . |
| 24 | From the start they treated it as something to be ‘ put right ’ . |
| 25 | It was seen as something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 26 | Whereas we treat human excreta as something to be neutralized with chemicals and politely disposed of , the Chinese see it as one more resource . |
| 27 | FAST 's biosociety is seen as something to be achieved within existing relations of production . |
| 28 | A mandatory offer is usually seen as something to be avoided because |