Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 2 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 3 | NFC impresses me as a democratically managed organisation . |
| 4 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 5 | It devalues me as an artist , painting is WORK , just because I 'm a woman . |
| 6 | They need to be educated properly , and society desperately needs them as educated members . |
| 7 | There are many of these power bases and their usefulness depends on whether other people concede that the individual has them as bases for power or not . |
| 8 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
| 9 | Sometimes a piece of fruit or a tub of yogurt is eaten at the end of lunch but more often she finishes with a biscuit or has nothing as dessert . |
| 10 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |
| 11 | As in woman-centred feminism generally , woman-centred psychology often defends itself as an effective , rather than a theoretically rigorous , means of resistance , and makes theory a utilitarian adjunct to this aim . |
| 12 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 13 | Pearson ( 1983 ) further showed that the identification of these groups as ‘ the dangerous classes ’ manifests itself as a continuous historical phenomenon . |
| 14 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 15 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 16 | Later versions of Bacon can recognise that each star has an intrinsic property which manifests itself as this ’ constant ’ . |
| 17 | In modern clinical psychoanalysis it manifests itself as that part of the ego which represents a critical self-awareness which is both censorious and exhortatory , being the representative of standards , ideals , commands and prohibitions . |
| 18 | The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs . |
| 19 | Arnold in no way undervalues her as an artist . |
| 20 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 21 | His answer is ringingly clear , and firmly places him as an empiricist . |
| 22 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 23 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
| 24 | ‘ I would like to think that Sparky still has it as his major ambition to play here and not for any other club . ’ |
| 25 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 26 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 27 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 28 | The parody of deviant sex , far from presupposing and ratifying an original natural sexuality , exposes it as a fiction . |
| 29 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 30 | However , by the time a foal has matured , it has usually come to accept that patting is some peculiar human aberration to indicate friendliness — and accepts it as such . |