Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All accounts of Six describe him as a competent yet modest and unassuming man of great integrity , and a devout Christian . |
| 2 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 3 | Dr Thomas Arnold in 1836 described him as a man of incomparably greater genius than any of the Anglican divines and theologians , and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity . |
| 4 | It has long been an axiom of the Labour Party that MacDonald 's actions in 1931 marked him as a traitor to the cause . |
| 5 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 6 | It was also given in-depth coverage on television and radio that evening , with News at Ten running it as the lead story in the first half of the programme and coming back to it again in the second . |
| 7 | There is a certain latter-day Robin Hood quality about Philip Gould , who at 40 sees himself as a ‘ man with a mission ’ . |
| 8 | He had at last accepted her as a friend and began whining and wriggling with pleasure as she approached . |