Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] their [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany interest groups like to present their views as the product of exhaustive research rather than of a distinctive philosophy . |
| 2 | Having made their name as the most mischievous men in pop , their audience watched uneasily as Madness turned down the corners of their mouths . |
| 3 | Had the Conservatives lost another general election they might have lost credibility as a potential party of government , and this could well have damaged their role as the integrating force of the political right . |
| 4 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
| 5 | Such occurrences have been rare at the Masters but we must eliminate them entirely if our patrons are to continue to merit their reputation as the most knowledgeable and considerate in the world . ’ |
| 6 | For their part , the MRP leaders had presented their movement as the " party of fidelity " ( i.e. fidelity to de Gaulle ) and had , in the end , opposed the first constitutional draft . |
| 7 | In the early eighteenth century the West Indian islands had established their position as the overseas area that meant most to Britain , and had become completely dependent on sugar and on slaves to grow the sugar . |
| 8 | For 150 years , police have regarded their job as the control of crime and criminals , of coping with social deviancy . |
| 9 | Bales ' ideas have been adapted by a number of British researchers , notably Rackham and Morgan ( 1977 ) , who have used their version as the basis for improving skills in inter-personal relationships . |
| 10 | They have become coordinators largely because they have established their reputations as the first to counteract those years of neglect , but they have themselves suffered more from that neglect than the new generation of community language teachers which is at last emerging . |