Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 2 | An election may also be a realigning one in that it produces a long-term shift in the balance of support between the parties , perhaps installing one as the new majority . |
| 3 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 4 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 5 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 6 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 7 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 8 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 9 | Metrogel received marketing authorisation in Britain in December 1991 and was launched by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals , Bioglan 's licensee , in April 1992 ; it has already established itself as the leading topical treatment for rosacea in Britain . |
| 10 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 11 | He never ever thought that he might live in one of these houses ; he always cast himself as the honoured young guest . |
| 12 | He always presented himself as the redeemed bad boy , but it was a lie , she says . |
| 13 | Many people still regard it as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 14 | One of my boyfriends once described you as the Rossetti maiden . ’ |
| 15 | We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means . |
| 16 | England … … … 0 Australia … … .. 0 STEVE TAYLOR probably established himself as the rightful successor to his more famous namesake , Ian , when he gave an outstanding performance of goalkeeping in England 's final game in the Lada Classic at Luton yesterday - a goalless draw with the world champions . |
| 17 | In other words , the document is a statement of a problem from which the writers clearly regard themselves as the innocent sufferers . |
| 18 | Unlike their predecessors they were at home in French , now establishing itself as the pre-eminent diplomatic language , and cultivated contacts with foreigners . |
| 19 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 20 | Now Paris may well be the inspiration of poets and troubadours but I do n't remember it as the fabled Athens of the West . |
| 21 | This area — even if he had been a total stranger to the city , and know nothing of its history , would have immediately advertised itself as the red-light district — even the very air seemed tainted by the smells of cheap perfume and sex . |
| 22 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 23 | So if you ever start scratching in Casualty do n't dismiss it as the odd gnat-bite . |
| 24 | Siblings fight , they 're mean , they bully and pinch , and know how to paint themselves as the innocent victim . |
| 25 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 26 | CMEAD widened its membership and subsequently reconstituted itself as the National Forum for Management Education and Development ( NFMEAD ) . |
| 27 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |