Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pron] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 2 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 3 | He created around himself at Hamilton Terrace a kind of family and it was this aspect of his life that allowed Susan Einzig to conceive of herself as a mother figure . |
| 4 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 5 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 6 | He had often , in their earlier correspondence , spoken of a test or ideal that he wished to impose on himself as a rein on his passionate temperament and his over-eager response to physical beauty and joy . |
| 7 | Actually seeing her physically pregnant may increase this response , and so when she has had her baby and gone back to her usual size , it is easier to relate to her as a daughter again . |
| 8 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 9 | We which I would hope when will itemise the qualities and strengths of the child that you want to cover , like when we do personal statements or joint statements in the tenth and eleventh year that if the form teacher just ca n't write well Fred 's worked very well , he 's done extremely well in English we 'll actually start to talk about him as an individual and his strengths and weaknesses . |
| 10 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 11 | In his reply to Coenwulf , the pope refused to countenance the removal of the archbishop of Canterbury to London , but the impact of this papal prohibition was offset by the papal recognition of Eadberht 's earlier ordination and consequent ineligibility for the kingship and permission was given to proceed against him as a pretender to royal power . |
| 12 | Now , for the first time … they are asked to look upon it as a question of human nature , of equal interest to men and women , as a question of the heart , the soul , the affections , the whole moral being . |
| 13 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
| 14 | She refused to look upon herself as an invalid , but it might be sensible to take a tonic , say , during the coming winter months , and to catch up with the loss of sleep she had so cheerfully endured . |
| 15 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 16 | This woman also had a passion to visit Russia , and she seemed to look on herself as a sort of tramp reformer . |
| 17 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 18 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 19 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 20 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 21 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |
| 22 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
| 23 | Got sod all to do with me as a S A U. |
| 24 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 25 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 26 | ‘ It 'll be Monday all too soon , ’ Sara said , with the brotherly grimness that Thomas had learned to read in her as a style of intimacy . |
| 27 | According to Ben , she had waited for him and he had failed her ; never mind that the real fault was not his , or that he had lain at death 's door , or that he had been loath to go to her as a cripple , with nothing to offer but a life of struggle . |
| 28 | Will the Secretary of State please ask the chairman of British Rail to report to him as a matter of urgency on the state of British Rail in Wales an on its financing ? |
| 29 | This in turn means that instead of patronising or colonising the community , existing statutory and voluntary agencies are going to have to live with it as an equal ’ . |
| 30 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |