Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It means that we can be involved straightaway with patient 's management when they 're admitted to hospitals within the Oxfordshire region , and so decisions can be made between the referring doctors and ourselves as regards the best policy of treatment .
2 It must not be thought that such differences are mere matters of imagination , and that we take the sensations to be different because we represent each of them to ourselves as occupying a different place .
3 I have to count on the symbol itself as providing the main evidence for meaning and , of course , as providing the means for creating schematic knowledge which 1 do not have in advance .
4 It was clear that the Government now saw itself as taking a greater part in determining TBC policies , and this was confirmed by the addition of an External Service to the TBC 's responsibilities .
5 Britain in the 1940s and 1950s saw itself as having a major power ( primarily military ) space programme .
6 It had experienced air pollution as a problem solved , not a new one as did the rural foresters in West Germany and Sweden .
7 She saw herself as providing the political resolution that had been lacking hitherto .
8 The pure economist may see himself or herself as occupying a different space from that of the applied economist ; the ‘ scholarly ’ critic from the ‘ responsive ’ one ; the ‘ objective ’ social researcher from the ‘ interpretative ’ one ; the doctor who ‘ delivers ’ health care from the one who ‘ responds ’ to his or her patients .
9 You can never describe her as having a particular image .
10 But she was not uncritical of tutors and students who were perceived by her as failing the wider aims of the WEA .
11 Although John was generally a quick worker , Anne Heaton remembers him as taking a long time over this work and seeming nervous about it .
12 Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule .
13 ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to .
14 Arab states including Algeria , Jordan , Sudan , Syria and Yemen strongly condemned the plan , regarding it as setting a dangerous precedent in the region and also as signalling the effective three-way partitioning of Iraq into Kurdish , Sunni and Shia blocs .
15 It is therefore in my view taking too much out of this case to read it as supporting the broad proposition that payment in response to an unlawful demand by an official is ipso facto recoverable .
16 B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question .
17 We can quote one as saying ‘ We see it as giving a distinctive edge to our marketing image amongst a predominantly business clientele . ’
18 They also see it as giving the Irish government a status to negotiate with the British government on their behalf .
19 Relations of CAP leaders and regular local government officials were often difficult , and critics saw it as giving an open invitation to agitators .
20 Lord Wilberforce considered ( at pp986 and 987 ) that there were two possible interpretations to the section : The first is to regard it as having a limited effect ; to be directed against persons who transfer assets abroad ; who by means of such transfers avoid tax , and who yet manage when resident in the United Kingdom to obtain or to be in a position to obtain benefits from those assets .
21 Mortensen described it as having a hooked tip and identified his specimens as A. palmeri , type locality : Key Biscayne , Florida because that species has a prominent hook on the second arm spine .
22 There would probably be no need to transfer substantial assets of the business into the new company and the appropriate step might be to allocate part of the solicitors ' clientele to the company partner to establish it as having a regular practice .
23 He suggests that although manufacturers had an instrumental influence in supporting this act — it helped to rationalize and make predictable the conduct of competitors — they also saw it as having a symbolic dimension , which if anything , was predominant in their minds .
24 Any of these must give it as having a certain structure .
25 Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) .
26 He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position .
27 However , if I do think of myself as making a considered choice , can I deny the justice of your reproach ?
28 Q : I take it you would n't describe yourself as having a maternal nature ?
29 A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists .
30 Parents often complain that they can only get help or support when they have identified themselves as having a specific problem , and it is not unusual for some families to have several different workers trying to offer support and advice on specific problems which , in reality , are part of a whole situation .
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