Example sentences of "[vb -s] them as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The much smaller amount of work on older women represents them as in mourning for the same psychological characteristics . |
| 2 | Then the elbow joins them as the head is firmly glued to the palm of the hand ; it 's as if that tired old head was too heavy to hold itself up . |
| 3 | In the meantime one studies them as landscapes , so to speak , simply to heighten one 's pleasure in sight-seeing , to get behind the superficial appearances , to uncover the layers of the palimpsest and to see , for example , a piece of the tenth century in the way a street makes an abrupt turn or does something else unexpected . |
| 4 | And no one else I 've met has them as he has . |
| 5 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |
| 6 | If the congregation accepts them as they are , and if lively and attractive leaders give them time and energy , young people are likely to stay in the Church . |
| 7 | The Abbot of the Abbey of St Mary , John Blake , built two fulling mills in the town during the 16th century , these being duly noted by the much-travelled Leland who , in 1535 , describes them as ‘ being wonderfully necessary by cause the town standith all by clothing ’ . |
| 8 | ( Harry Hawke describes them as now sounding bad beyond belief ) . |
| 9 | At times she seems to see women as so ‘ brainwashed ’ that they are scarcely human ; thus she describes them as ‘ fembots ’ , even as ‘ mutants ’ . |
| 10 | One commentator describes them as key , routine and decisionless decisions . |
| 11 | A lot of the burrows are lying empty , you know : rats live in one part , but the man kills them as well , when he can . |
| 12 | He in turn comforts them as best he can with modern medicine . |
| 13 | There are small twigs digging into her back , she is angry , pushes against him , but he pays no attention , carries on , his hands exploring , he is smiling down at her and when he lowers his head the water from his hair seeps into her mouth so that she tastes the lake , the fish smell of deep water , sees the sun brilliant through the branches behind his head , blinding her eyes , sun specks floating , she closes them as he moves against her . |
| 14 | Erm , Jack does gamble , erm , with his , with the dogs but he , but he also breeds them as well , and he goes to the dogs two or three times a week . |
| 15 | The same segment of the population working as producers and consumers here creates quite contrasting images , although analysis reveals them as emanating from a consistent set of interests . |
| 16 | Sounds — This section focuses on individual sounds or groups of sounds and practises them as they arise in common contexts ( e.g. the sounds / s / , / z / , and iz at the end of words ) . |
| 17 | While such studies as these do bring out the peculiar status of the causatives make and have ( which , I would agree , do involve a closer bond between the causative event and the event caused ) , they are nevertheless based on abstract semantic categories which have been set up a priori in logico-truth-conditional terms — Wierzbicka ( 1988 : 237 ) aptly characterizes them as " ready-made labels " — and therefore lose sight of the fact that each individual language is a system where meaning is bonded to form in permanent and idiosyncratic fashion ( cf. the comments on Ransom 1986 in the Introduction ) . |
| 18 | You put a a plate on his chest with raddle on so he marks them as he comes round . |
| 19 | So their file shows them as remaining in debt , even when they are no longer . |
| 20 | It now classes them as fixed assets at cost , less any permanent diminution in value . |
| 21 | He sees them as not only strengthening small communities , but also as actually beginning to reverse the population flows from the countryside to the towns . |
| 22 | And indeed , as Daly sees women as having become ‘ mutants ’ or ‘ fembots ’ , so Millett sees them as not having been allowed to participate in fully ‘ human ’ activities ( which she characterises as those that are most remote from the biological contingencies of life ) , and Frye sees them as simply ‘ broken ’ and then ‘ remade ’ in the way that suits their masters . |
| 23 | And indeed , as Daly sees women as having become ‘ mutants ’ or ‘ fembots ’ , so Millett sees them as not having been allowed to participate in fully ‘ human ’ activities ( which she characterises as those that are most remote from the biological contingencies of life ) , and Frye sees them as simply ‘ broken ’ and then ‘ remade ’ in the way that suits their masters . |
| 24 | Instead he sees them as occupying a number of strata which are in ‘ contradictory class locations ’ . |
| 25 | The government today sees them as as important for housing policy as are the local authorities . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the fact that he sees them as two distinct individuals does not necessarily mean that they exist as two distinct individuals when they are not perceived . |
| 27 | She is not aware of their presence and sees them as ‘ simply a part of the familiar atmosphere of the room , a background which does not touch her preoccupation ’ . |
| 28 | They reject the Keynesian approach to monetary and fiscal polices which sees them as discretionary , essentially short-term , demand management policies . |
| 29 | Who protects them as we increasingly emphasise the difficulties of caring ? |
| 30 | In these , he adopts a Kantian constructivist position which proposes certain basic categories through which alone the world may be apprehended , but recasts them as dynamic forms achieved only through a long process of interaction with the environment , in which the infant develops cognitive abilities as a means of dealing with the world . |