Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] as an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole . |
| 2 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 3 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't buy many sweets but the girls do enjoy them as an occasional treat — and I sometimes use them as a bribe ! |
| 5 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 6 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 7 | Desert Storm commander , General Norman Schwarzkopf described it as an historic day : a day to make it clear who was in charge . |
| 8 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 9 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 10 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 11 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 12 | How can you change ask , ge get to that , but say it as an open question . |
| 13 | Both had begun the war as conscientious objectors , Vaughan ending it as an Orderly Room clerk for the Army in a prisoner-of-war camp in Yorkshire . |
| 14 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 15 | Where a practice is reasonably common and sensible in its market context , the courts will often uphold it as an implied term in the main contract . |
| 16 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 17 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 18 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 19 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 20 | They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World . |
| 21 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 22 | Despite her antagonism , she recognised him as an awesome adversary . |
| 23 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 24 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 25 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 26 | Imagine it as an ever-increasing overdraft . |
| 27 | I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea . |
| 28 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 29 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 30 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |