Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the most interesting case erm , I remember was a chap who erm having completed his course erm joined the R A F and erm he was missing at Dieppe when they had the rather abortive attempt at landing at Dieppe during the war and er , but he was never erm posted as as erm having died and erm it was years afterwards , it was in the nineteen fifties in fact before we could get the Department of Education to agree to the loan being written off because erm obviously he was , by that time he had to be assumed as |
| 2 | York 's a historic city of some hundred and four thousand people , covering some two thousand nine hundred hectares , but that city itself is only part of the settlement that I think we would all regard as as York itself , that covers a larger population of some a hundred and thirty five thousand people , er contained er within the York outer ring road , and referenced to the the map submitted with my H One submission , and also the greenbelt plan which we 've we 've just put up on the board there , er will show you the the broader extent of the urban area . |
| 3 | Erm it is our position that we would support and regard as as the best approach one based on past land take-up . |
| 4 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 5 | Quite wide steps and it 's designed as as a exhibition . |
| 6 | This provides a benchmark for evaluating natural monopoly industries , in the same way that perfect competition provides a benchmark — something that it would be desirable to work towards as a policy goal . |
| 7 | We can use this idea to " see " what an equation looks like as a picture . |
| 8 | He was the same Michael , but grown up , and just as engaging and delightful to work with as when he was a kid . ’ |
| 9 | It was voted upon as a whole on 16 October , and taken up again after a week 's break on 25–27 October . |
| 10 | At the end of my foundation year I 'd been voted in as Social Secretary , in charge of putting on all the shows there . |
| 11 | Thatcher is voted in as Tory leader . |
| 12 | Stuart Wilson , previously honorary secretary was voted in to take the office of captain and Gordon Keith , previously treasurer , was voted in as honorary secretary . |
| 13 | Bentley customers are younger but no less affluent than typical Rolls-Royce buyers ; they must presumably be looked upon as good investments because they are more likely to make a repeat purchase than their Rolls-Royce counterparts . |
| 14 | In Africa visitors are looked upon as a blessing and people go out of their way to meet them and make them feel truly welcome and at home . |
| 15 | To continue the analogy of the Whitehall market-place , the Ministry of Defence itself can be looked upon as a specialized commodity market , in which the three Services and the Defence scientists bargain for their share of the resources won by the Secretary of State on the main trading floor during the annual Public Expenditure Reviews . |
| 16 | The work done by the tides may be looked upon as an energy subsidy ( see p 116 ) . |
| 17 | Whilst Rodinal may not be looked upon as a standard developer by the photographic industry in the same way that Ilford 's ID-II and Kodak 's D-76 are regarded , it is interesting to note for instance that Ilford list , among other developers , Rodinal at a 1:25 dilution , complete with recommended developing times , for its new Delta-400 high-speed emulsion at normal , pull 1-stop and push 1-stop exposure indices . |
| 18 | Most of their instruction is designed for large , sophisticated farms , and organic husbandry is still usually looked upon as ‘ muck and mystery ’ . |
| 19 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 20 | Gnosticism can be looked upon as a revolt against Greek science . |
| 21 | Borrowing is looked upon as a natural part of everyday life so long as it is kept within bounds . |
| 22 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 23 | And , of course , on the largest scale , the Universe itself , expanding from the big bang , may also be looked upon as a white hole erupting from a singularity . |
| 24 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 25 | A descent upon England was long looked upon as an impracticable chimera in face of the countless and invincible naval forces that encircle this island-empire with a line of floating citadels , collected or dispersed at will at any threatened points around the coast … |
| 26 | David Hartridge had become a fully-fledged pilot and was looked upon as a hero . |
| 27 | The knowledge of poisons and antidotes is one of the eight chief subjects of Indian medical science and it is strongly evident that the Naga Takshaka was looked upon as a patron of the medical profession . |
| 28 | I know how desperately Wright wants to be looked upon as the natural replacement for Gary Lineker , and this is one of his problems . |
| 29 | As it was , the chantry duties of the guilds had been in steady decline since the early fifteenth century , so that by 1547 the majority had for many years been looked upon as burial societies . |
| 30 | Until recent years , when the popularity of the short story has greatly increased , it was looked upon as a sort of poor relation to the novel , something the novelist did to occupy idle time , rather like whittling wood . |