Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this new environment women were more frequently allowed to inherit property than they had been earlier , though inevitably the more they were heiresses the more those men who had power over them — uncles or guardians — regarded them as marketable assets . |
| 32 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 33 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 34 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 35 | She regarded them as " mentors " who taught her a great deal about management , and international leadership . |
| 36 | Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers . |
| 37 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 38 | There is no evidence that the court circle in East Anglia , including those elements most closely identified with the queen , was inimical to Gloucester , or that the duke regarded them as rivals for power in the region . |
| 39 | These section 52 agreements became the object of increasing contention in the 1970s , with local authorities seeing them as a means of bargaining for planning gain , while developers , at the extreme , regarded them as blackmail . |
| 40 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 41 | The Bidston Dock cranes have been a feature of the Wallasey landscape but unpopular with some local residents who regarded them as an eyesore and the cause of television reception problems . |
| 42 | Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative . |
| 43 | ‘ I left him because I could n't handle the shadow his expectations threw over me … the way he cast me as a member of his dream . |
| 44 | Mandeville supervised them as if he was besieging a castle . |
| 45 | Hence one Sunday paper , commenting on the pairing of Nottingham Forest and Manchester United , described them as ‘ two of the game 's most successful clubs in recent years ’ . |
| 46 | Mr Rifkind , the Transport Secretary , described them as ‘ absolute rubbish ’ . |
| 47 | He described them as ‘ associates ’ and tried to visit every store at least once a year ( always staying at budget motels ) . |
| 48 | Their lawlessness became so notorious that James VI proscribed the clan , which turned out to be very unpleasant indeed , and his edict described them as : ‘ that wicked race of lawless luminaries , callit the Macgregor ’ . |
| 49 | Peter Picton in Sounds described them as : ‘ A chaotic collapse of jangling guitars protecting the sweetest melodies . ’ |
| 50 | Sir Robert Donald , writing between the two world wars , described them as : ‘ a somewhat primitive community . |
| 51 | When the Girdle Gang appeared in court for an assault on a man whom , it was said , they had kicked ‘ like a football ’ , The Daily Graphic described them as ‘ a gang of the Hooligan type ’ . |
| 52 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 53 | Ryzhkov , speaking in Tashkent , described them as a ‘ carefully prepared action ’ led by ‘ extremists ’ , and blamed complacent local officials for allowing the situation to develop ; some of them , in fact , had actively encouraged the rioters . |
| 54 | The Politburo , reviewing the talks , described them as a ‘ major political event ’ and thought particularly significant the two leaders ' declaration that a nuclear war could not be won and must never be fought ; this was at odds with the views of some influential US ( and Soviet ) strategists . |
| 55 | The Royal Commission on Legal Services described them as ‘ … indispensable in a number of ways : they provide pre-trial advice to defendants who are often confused or ignorant and who have not previously obtained it , they encourage the adequate preparation of bail applications and help to reduce the number of ill-advised pleas , whether of guilt or innocence , and the number of remands required . ’ |
| 56 | Soviet writers observed that these resolutions corresponded with resolutions on eliminating foreign bases in the Third World adopted in the UN General Assembly ( for example at the Twenty-First Session in December 1965 ) and described them as part of the broader ‘ struggle against imperialism ’ . |
| 57 | While Ridley 's remarks provoked some adverse reaction in West Germany , Chancellor Helmut Kohl described them as a " faux pas " and expressed understanding of the United Kingdom 's concerns over the German role in Europe . |
| 58 | They were firmly rejected by the ANC which described them as a plan to perpetuate white rule and delay true democracy . |
| 59 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 60 | His comments brought an angry response from the executive director of Scottish Financial Enterprise , James Scott , who described them as confused nonsense . |