Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After six competitive games it became clear to me that the standard of football required in the Multivite/Singletons League Division Three was way beyond his ability and so , sadly , I felt the club was no longer able to accommodate him as a player . |
| 32 | Do you think it 's safe to sell them as a job lot ? ’ |
| 33 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 34 | thought that he could create an advantage by shipping some Russian rocket missiles to his friend , Fidel Castro , in the island of Cuba , so that he would be able to use them as a threat against the continent of North America , a comparatively short distance away . |
| 35 | I thought then I 'd be able to use it as an airing cupboard but it still did n't work but it 's like you said it 's because it 's got such a good |
| 36 | In other words , he knows the language , in the sense of being able to use it as the rest of us do . |
| 37 | It was better that way because then no one , even when put under the most severe torture , would be able to name her as the culprit . |
| 38 | The medium trance is the best one for any treatment requiring regression , as it will be possible for the patient to relive past experiences on a more realistic level , whether seeing and hearing what takes place or being able to describe it as a spectator . |
| 39 | because we would not be able to raise it as a shield in that one respect , now if your Lordship tried and then said well alright we stay the counterclaim is a set off , then what would your Lordship be intending to do about the remaining defences to say we 're not allowed defend our claim er at all on the basis of article eighty five will that be |
| 40 | If this is accepted , Mr Major will be able to present it as a step away from supranationalism . |
| 41 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 42 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 43 | This difference is usually formulated in terms of a difference in knowledge ( pure as against applied , theoretical as against practical ) but it may be more accurate to see it as a difference of stance . |
| 44 | It therefore seems unreasonable to see it as a result of the fragmentation of working-class communities ( Dunning et al , 1984 ) . |
| 45 | She was accustomed to her parents ' absences and proud to endure them as a member of a sailor 's family should , without complaint , but now the absence of her mother and father disturbed her . |
| 46 | We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology . |
| 47 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 48 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 49 | However since the Convention does not specify that the acceptance be directed towards the treaty parties it might not be possible to regard it as a collateral agreement . |
| 50 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 51 | Thus it is often convenient to treat it as the claim that no complex synonym can be provided which brings out the meaning of ‘ good ’ as say ‘ parent 's brother ’ brings out the meaning of ‘ uncle ’ . |
| 52 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 53 | Historically it has been convenient to explore them as an evolution from the works of Euclid . |
| 54 | But if and when a bid comes they are likelier to use it as a stimulus to change or otherwise discipline the incumbent management rather than selling out . |
| 55 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 56 | It seemed quite enough just to have you as a friend . |
| 57 | Harry would have felt inclined to dismiss it as the invention of a hysterical mind but for the fact that Mrs Diamond 's mind was clearly anything but hysterical . |
| 58 | After completing a course at Dublin Film School six years ago , Hughes fled to London , determined to make it as a comic . |
| 59 | Still , Brown reckons that NT will initially be more popular on client machines rather than servers , despite the fact that Microsoft is keen to position it as a server offering . |
| 60 | Ernest Troeltsch is absolutely correct to describe it as a love communism . |