Sentence examples of "take as an instance" in English
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.
La canne sert à annoncer le fait que les mains de celui qui la tient sont employées à autre chose qu'à un effort utile, et elle est donc utile comme preuve d'oisiveté.
As an Englishman, he is particularly sensitive to the differences between English and American usage.
En tant qu'Anglais, il est particulièrement sensible aux différences entre les usages anglais et étasunien.
Shortly after coming back to France, he decided to abandon his career as an economist in order to dedicate himself to his true passion: writing, in Spain.
Il a décidé peu de temps après son retour en France d’abandonner sa carrière comme économiste pour se dédier à sa vraie passion, l’écriture, en Espagne.
She thought of Canada as an ideal country to live in.
Elle considérait le Canada comme un pays idéal à habiter.
I don't have a stamp collection, but I have a Japanese postcard collection that I could use as an excuse to invite him.
Je n'ai pas de collection de timbres, mais j'ai une collection de cartes postales du Japon que je pourrais prendre comme excuse pour l'inviter chez moi.
Officially, he works for us as an interpreter.
Officiellement, il travaille pour nous en tant qu'interprète.
An electric guitar doesn't sound the same as an acoustic one.
Une guitare électrique sonne différemment d'une acoustique.
She added, as an afterthought, that she was going to do some shopping.
Elle ajouta, après réflexion, qu'elle allait faire des courses.
I heard her speaking English as fluently as an American.
Je l'ai entendue parler anglais aussi couramment qu'une Étasunienne.
From a lexical point of view, Esperanto appears as an Indo-European language, but structurally it is an isolating language, likewise Chinese.
Au point de vue lexical l'espéranto apparaît comme une langue d'origine indo-européenne, mais structurellement elle est une langue isolante pareillement au chinois.
I don't have a stamp collection, but I have a Japanese postcard collection that I could use as an excuse to invite her.
Je n'ai pas de collection de timbres, mais j'ai une collection de cartes postales du Japon que je pourrais prendre comme excuse pour l'inviter chez moi.
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