Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uniform start date to be Thursdays , and matches to include Saturday as the third day . |
| 2 | Marlborough 's campaigns have commanded the admiration of military analysts ; his successes showed that Britain could conduct a war on land , and made it clear that the balance of power would be maintained and Louis XIV would not be able to establish France as the dominant power in western Europe in the way that had seemed probable in the 1680s . |
| 3 | Cooke said : ‘ My motivation for wanting to stay on as manager is to see England as the top team in the world . |
| 4 | There was great disappointment when the Government decided to choose Glasgow as the preferred option , in spite of the deal Chester had put together . |
| 5 | A vital British policy objective , therefore , is to persuade the Saudi government to finance Egypt as the regional policeman , since Egypt has a large army and population but little money . |
| 6 | With the Italian economy apparently hitting the stars , and a submerged economy estimated at around 20 — 30 per cent of the gross national product , it is easy to use Italy as the shining example of leaving things to individual initiative . |
| 7 | It is true that he seems to have been sufficiently interested to use Wagner as the extreme example of " the demonic in music " for his Germania paper on that theme ; and also that , following his exposure to the music of Tristan , some of his own compositions of 1861 have a marked Wagnerian flavour ( in eccentric combination with formally archaic polyphony ) — but this flirtation was short-lived and not repeated until his conversion to Wagner seven years later . |
| 8 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 9 | To see Portillo as the chief axeman even sent shudders down the spine of some Tory back-benchers who argued for keeping large areas of the welfare state out of the Government 's review , particularly health and pensions . |
| 10 | He saw the attachment to the Middle East by Britain as ‘ sentimental ’ , and wanted to redefine Britain as the easterly extension of a strategic area based in the USA , rather than a power looking eastwards through the Mediterranean to India and beyond . |
| 11 | Therefore , simply to represent Jesus as the Good Shepherd without any explanatory note would convey entirely the wrong impression . |
| 12 | In 1893 America was ready to see Columbus as the great discoverer , the man who laid the foundations for a nation of bold entrepreneurs . |