Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of these major issues figures in Krashen 's scheme of things , so he presumably does not regard them as having any relation at all to the learning and teaching of languages . |
| 2 | She was four foot ten and described herself as having sagging breasts and a low-slung bottom . |
| 3 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 4 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |
| 5 | The July 1992 text regarded it as giving non-mandatory guidelines . |
| 6 | The critical factor in the ‘ many sided problem ’ was felt to be the question of ‘ Rights and Duties within the State ’ , and their relation to the wider issues arising out of an increasingly democratic society , notably that of the ‘ sectional interest ’ of the labour movement , which was always of profound concern to the New Liberals who regarded it as undermining political stability and social harmony . |
| 7 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 8 | Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status . |
| 9 | He probably sees me as having mechanical skills , like a dentist 's , which higher types must occasionally employ . |
| 10 | He sees it as having symbolic significance , directing world attention to Australian research , development and intellectual quality . |
| 11 | It often works , though once in London when I so far forgot myself as to try this ploy , I was rewarded by a grimace of fascinating sarcasm ! |
| 12 | In talking about such occasions , our participants describe themselves as making non-demeaning withdrawals into silence . |
| 13 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 14 | But if we listen to them carefully , it is evident that they parade their doubts not so much to resolve them as to evoke public sympathy and to gain that sense of identity which comes from subconsciously defining themselves by their problems . |
| 15 | The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population . |
| 16 | Whereas the Shah came to be seen in Iran as doorman to the Great Satan , pushing Western goods and notions , Hassan had cleverly portrayed himself as resisting both Moroccos former colonizers the French , and , more recently , the American intrusion . |
| 17 | They do some quite remarkably good booklets so do n't rip it off by the heading and er nobody regards themselves as aged these days do they ? |
| 18 | Scott Gibbs , whose midfield tackling was at the very heart of the Welsh win , has always struck one as having tremendous potential , but he has before now been roundly censured for his use of the ball after a break . |
| 19 | It is true that policy-makers in Washington often saw themselves as using financial inducements to compel the British to act as they desired . |
| 20 | It was as if he saw us as having one life between us . |
| 21 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 22 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |
| 23 | It suited the more militant and ambitious New English to portray them as having Irish sympathies and having gone native . |
| 24 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 25 | Whatever the brutality of their methods , or the tactlessness of their secular claims , there is no doubt that both Henry VIII and Somerset were also motivated by religious considerations , seeing themselves as releasing Scottish Protestants from Catholic bondage ; old claims had a dramatic new dimension . |
| 26 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 27 | On September 6 the Sunday Express published on its front page a story concerning the Princess Royal which quoted her as making certain statements . |
| 28 | Let us for the moment take it as established that dog has a general sense , denoting the whole species , irrespective of sex . |
| 29 | They see them as having wider connotations , which may include casting doubt on both management competence and the financial statements ' integrity . |
| 30 | Although we were wary of being shown set-up situations , the people we met impressed us as having deep convictions , lively minds , tireless enthusiasm , incorruptible moral standards . |