Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pers pn] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We should replace them as the Labour Party 's main op opponents . |
| 3 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 4 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 5 | We 'll put it as the last item . |
| 6 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 7 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
| 8 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 9 | So either one can not imagine postal activity in isolation , because it is conceptually bound up with so much else , or one can imagine it as the futile activity of a deluded loner . |