Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate . |
| 2 | The first is to look upon it as a simple riddle to which the Scribes seemingly had no answer . |
| 3 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 4 | She was n't much of a drinker either — did n't even particularly like the taste of alcohol , but she 'd have to look on it as a necessary medicine . |
| 5 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 6 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 7 | I used to go with him as a little boy . |
| 8 | De Gaulle made limited overtures to all sides — offering the FLN an honourable truce ( " paix des braves " ) but refusing to negotiate with it as a political force ; throwing some rhetorical sops to the integrationists but refusing to embrace the cause of integration ; telling the army that outright victory should be its objective , but also saying that no resolution reached against the will of the Algerian people would endure for long . |
| 9 | With firm reassurance and explanation the pain either disappears ( usually within three months ) or the patient learns to live with it as a minor nuisance . |
| 10 | Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin . |
| 11 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 12 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 13 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 14 | I have not met the one in possession of my estate , and maybe never will , but I like to think of him as a kindly , white-haired old gentleman with a twinkle in his eye and a bag of humbugs for passing children , a man who has seen the troubles of the world but who remains untainted . |
| 15 | Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity . |
| 16 | Some people in publishing like to think of theirs as a glamorous medium , so they sometimes copy the Hollywood glitter , They certainly did so last week , when the Periodical Publishers Association handed out its awards for 1983 . |
| 17 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
| 18 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
| 19 | If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another . |
| 20 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
| 21 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 22 | But they said to think of it as a big pat on the back |
| 23 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 24 | Despite the MIDI nature of the JMP-1 , it 's useful still to think of it as a basic preamp . |
| 25 | Mildly , he said , ‘ If you insist on facing things , why not think about how the way you 've behaved hardly leads me to think on you as a sensitive soul . |
| 26 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 27 | She had tales to tell of him as a small boy , as a young man . |