Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 2 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 3 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |
| 4 | You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it . |
| 5 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 6 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 7 | Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it . |
| 8 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
| 9 | We should replace them as the Labour Party 's main op opponents . |
| 10 | If they do n't hear anything else then they 'll regard it as a false alarm . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll treat it as a scaphoid fracture . |
| 12 | Erm the training course er as I said two days er I 'll count it as a full training course . |
| 13 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 14 | a green one or something , but I 'll do it as a red one |
| 15 | They 'll remember it as a tremendous part of their lives . |
| 16 | It 's supported by our local M P , so I believe , well it 's okay , minutes of the previous meeting which was held on the twelfth of October , and I 'll sign them as a true and accurate version . |
| 17 | In most cases the issue raises no problems , but estranged parents using the child to fight their bat ties or rebellious teenagers seeking recognition of their maturity and autonomy against over-protective or interventionist parents may see it as an important issue of principle . |
| 18 | Depopulation from plague was a very real factor in the long term , and while it might not destroy a village immediately , it could weaken it as a social and economic unit . |
| 19 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 20 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 21 | His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did . |
| 22 | With eyes half closed he could see it as a miniature cannon . |
| 23 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 24 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 25 | Although , you could view it as a bad contract , as there are some things in there that are slightly ambiguous . ’ |
| 26 | you 'd write it as a single positive okay now because there 's a two |
| 27 | If that were all , I 'd applaud it as a wise and public-spirited action and I hope it starts a trend . |
| 28 | I 'd accept you as an honorary woman any day ! ’ |
| 29 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 30 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |