Example sentences of "[v-ing] them as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice . |
| 2 | When they do , they turn on the person and accuse him or her of being old-fashioned and not accepting them as they are . |
| 3 | ‘ By accepting them as friends and equals Jesus had taken away their shame , humiliation and guilt . |
| 4 | Weir got out of commodity , or off-the-shelf , engineering goods , which it had been making almost since it was founded by the family in 1871 , seeing them as too sensitive to changes to domestic demand and expensive to produce compared with international competitors . |
| 5 | We tend to take plants for granted , seeing them as just another aspect of the environment and failing to appreciate the vital service which they perform both for ourselves and for all other living creatures on this planet . |
| 6 | After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . |
| 7 | They had learned a new set of problem management techniques which they were beginning to use as a matter of course without seeing them as being a single method of solving a particular problem . |
| 8 | The result of seeing the difference in women 's experiences in positive rather than negative terms — seeing women as having something to offer philosophy rather than seeing them as inferior or aberrant versions of a male norm — is that the contours of familiar conceptual landscapes begin to change . |
| 9 | Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions . |
| 10 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 11 | But approaching the IRA from a nationalist perspective is very different from seeing them as savage , without apparent objectives other than the spread of evil . |
| 12 | You can have that Frank , you ca n't have several different sales reps going into seeing different people and my people seeing them as well . |
| 13 | I found a canvas bag in his wardrobe in which I laid the pages , handling them as though they were living and in pain . |
| 14 | Collecting animals from the wild and using them as pets has consequences , in many cases which are relevant to conservation . |
| 15 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 16 | It is feared that Iraqi tyrant Saddam Hussein is using them as political pawns because of Britain 's role in imposing a no-fly zone . |
| 17 | But he is using them as light fixtures ( there 's a switch ! ) to illuminate an installation of photographs of previous shows at the gallery . |
| 18 | The colony 's German settler inhabitants had been accused of sexually abusing children , of torturing inmates and using them as slave labour , and also of acting as a torture centre for the DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup [ see also pp. 36346 ; 36932 ; 37490 ] . |
| 19 | It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics . |
| 20 | Unix Expo delivered what it said it would , counting a record 28,722 attendees and characterising them as primarily corporate buyers . |
| 21 | except for the form teachers with me helping them as well and Uncle Don |
| 22 | She was n't going to risk annoying them as she had about the color of the paint . |
| 23 | US firms have been incensed at the number and size of claims filed against thrifts ' professional advisers by RTC , and have accused the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ in an attempt to recover some of the billions of dollars US taxpayers lost when the S&L industry collapsed . |
| 24 | belittling the problem as defined by the parents and labelling them as over-anxious |
| 25 | Those which do not contain pyrozines naturally , gather them from noxious plants , either eating them as caterpillars or drinking them as adults . |
| 26 | Erm it might be worth contacting them as being a professional consultation . |
| 27 | Putting two sentences together into one sentence , instead of keeping them as separate sentences , indicates a certain degree of closeness between them . |
| 28 | While the persecution of the Popular Church was basically instigated by the government , a small group of religious dignitaries , with tacit backing from the Papal Nuncio , joined the attack on liberation theologians , condemning them as tantamount to heretics . |
| 29 | You can start vibrating them as soon as your have laid a few metres . |
| 30 | In America the war was not much more decisive than its predecessor , but British successes in Europe and claims to compensation to make up for the fact that the Bourbons had secured the Spanish throne meant that Britain kept her gains instead of returning them as she had done in 1697 . |