Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An oriental Korean card game , played for points with the computer facing you as the opponent . |
| 2 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 3 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 4 | Devices are available too for giving variable prominence to one or other of the participants in the process to identify it as the topic . |
| 5 | The right characterise it as the ‘ nanny state ’ stifling initiative and giving unproductive employment to the middle classes . |
| 6 | The procedure circulated them as the thing that 's in place . |
| 7 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 8 | Cobb argues that social support arises in the eye of the beholder , and is anything that influences the person to perceive himself as the recipient of positive affect ; any information ‘ leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved … esteemed and valued … ’ |
| 9 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 10 | The official history of the movement sees it as the outgrowth of ‘ homes and refuges for the destitute and institutes opened in the evenings with a mainly educational purpose in view ’ . |
| 11 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 12 | The novel suggests itself as the work of a novelist intent on a gruesome entertainment . |
| 13 | The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " . |
| 14 | Although he concedes that this kind of research is sometimes necessary , he deplores the tendency to regard it as the norm . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’ |
| 16 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 17 | A group describing itself as the " Iraqi national opposition " called on Feb. 19 for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein , as had a communiqué issued on Jan. 28 by the Islamic opposition in Iraq . |
| 18 | But they are n't in a position to harass you as the British on their home ground would be . |
| 19 | Since the Newbolt Report is the first , and indeed has remained the single most comprehensive official report on English , there has been a tendency to use it as the key to the most fundamental ideological impulses of the discipline . |
| 20 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |