Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 2 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , this emphasis on the fact that Jesus was a real man , and the rejection of what was certainly a widespread tendency to picture him as a purely superhuman ( and rather unreal ) figure , were clearly necessary : here lies one side of what classical Christian teaching has always held . |
| 4 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 5 | The ME Action Campaign is waging a major campaign to validate ME as a disease . |
| 6 | Palcy is the first black woman to make it as a big-budget director in Hollywood . |
| 7 | erm it may be erm a a good idea to use it as a erm as a first scheme perhaps to erm to try and er car park and if you look at that at the beginning and just keep it on a on a rolling programme then all that does n't get so enormous er it does n't get such a a large task so maybe if er , but it does need coordinating perhaps we should think about it . |
| 8 | Andrew will be much missed by all the many who had the good fortune to count him as a colleague and a friend . |
| 9 | It makes more sense to see it as a career development move , providing an understanding and appreciation of both sides of the divide , ’ she says . |
| 10 | If you want more information to help you as a parent , you could read : |
| 11 | Instead , desanctification meant a growing tendency to treat him as a politician " like the others " . |
| 12 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 13 | His laddish image led one colleague to describe him as the Nigel Kennedy of the National . |
| 14 | De Gaulle 's lucidity on this point was eventually justified by events , but not before the Americans had made a concerted effort to eliminate him as a political force . |
| 15 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |
| 16 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 17 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 18 | It is likely to come about only as a consequence of a general election yielding a majority for no single party thus putting a minority party favouring change in a strong position to secure it as a price for joining or supporting another minority party in government . |
| 19 | I remind the Hon. Gentleman that when I launched the valleys initiative I challenged the Labour party to choose it as a subject for the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs . |
| 20 | But despite a guest appearance by Jack Nicholson , and the assistance of the ingenious Simenon ( a man so uninfatuated by Prince and all his works that he fell asleep during the Sign O The Times movie ) , does Cat have the creative wherewithal to make it as a solo act ? |
| 21 | ‘ You have already received some of the precious germ-plasm of our blessed Patriarch to kindle you as a true Imperial Fist … ’ |
| 22 | She latched on to the rodent 's peanut-sized brain and filled it with enough extraneous material to qualify him as a genius in rat terms . |