Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] as the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 3 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 4 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 5 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 6 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 7 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 8 | Now , as the capital returns to Berlin , there are plans to restore the Reichstag and use it as the new German parliament . |
| 9 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 10 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 11 | Georg Simmel 's analysis of a Zweierverbindung , a ‘ union of two ’ or ‘ dyad ’ as it is usually translated , defines it as the minimal social unit , which depends always on ‘ immediacy of interaction ’ , there being no super-individual unit to which either party can also belong ( as with larger group-structures ) . |
| 12 | Before a non-dominant class can become the dominant class it has to ‘ give its ideas the form of universality and represent them as the only rational universally valid ones ’ ( Marx and Engels 1974 : 66 ) . |