Example sentences of "of them as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind ! |
| 2 | He writes of them as they stay for waftage : |
| 3 | In brief , topic neutrality was invoked to explain why , within the materialist scheme , consciousness of our mental states is not sufficient for knowledge of them as brain states : what it can not do is explain why knowledge of brain states is not sufficient for knowledge of their nature as conscious states . |
| 4 | They 've got all this on top of them as well as , say , they may be in a dangerous area . |
| 5 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 6 | In spite of this I still have fond memories of them as they were such a soft , comfortable pair of boots from day one . |
| 7 | By definition , if there are hundreds and thousands of them , I must meet one or two of them as I go around , but I never do . |
| 8 | ‘ Mink are unnecessary killers and have a habit of decimating fish stocks if left to breed at the side of fisheries , so I will help the local clubs to get rid of them as soon as I can , ’ he added . |
| 9 | Engels here , as elsewhere , is clearly influenced by the romantic nationalist tradition of nineteenth-century historians , and the praise which he lavishes on these groups , as well as the labelling of them as ‘ German ’ , is probably misplaces . |
| 10 | Whereas the chimpanzees ' warfare and cannibalism changed for ever her rose-coloured idea of them as somehow ‘ better ’ than us . |
| 11 | Berlin 's buildings — such of them as have survived — tell the story of the pioneering ages of modern design . |
| 12 | Having made all kinds of good resolutions after Ladakh , he fell out of them as soon as he returned to his usual academic haunts in Oxford and New York ; painfully , he tried again . |
| 13 | For Locke , however , they are ‘ whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks ’ ; and his conception of them as essentially mind-dependent things is derived from Descartes . |
| 14 | Her family she could stand , and even regarded some of them as having qualities superior to her own , arrogant as she knew she was . |
| 15 | We do n't normally think of them as being anxious , but simply as being hard to catch , too nervous to ride , or unreliable in competition . |
| 16 | I talked to some of them as they were leaving . |
| 17 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 18 | The luxuries and extra food dancers always get represent the Russian public 's view of them as ‘ holy personages ’ , as she puts it . |
| 19 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 20 | My eyes and hands may do that for me , so think of them as you know them … |
| 21 | It would be a mistake to think of them as exactly tied options . |
| 22 | The police carried on down Duke Street , clearing the crowd in front of them as demonstrators screamed hysterically . |
| 23 | The Government is restoring several of them as holiday flats , a slow process but tastefully done . |
| 24 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 25 | THERE IS A CREEK in North America which in early summer is overhung with arching fronds of flowers ; you have to duck in and out of them as you paddle the canoe . |
| 26 | His ‘ ardour … for his books of chivalry ’ ( OMF iii 5 ) is described in Cervantes ' first chapter : ‘ so great was his curiosity and infatuation in this regard that he even sold many acres of tillable land in order to be able to buy and read the books that he loved , and he would carry home with him as many of them as he could obtain . ’ |
| 27 | If he is to play successfully with others he must be aware of them as persons like himself , with feelings and rights which must be recognized and adjusted to . |
| 28 | I think of some of them as being almost hallucinogenic . |
| 29 | Willing hands helped us rescue as many of them as we could , and we got our robes out to take home and wash . |
| 30 | ( These stages occur simultaneously , but it is convenient to think of them as being sequential . ) |