Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a free society , if trade unions want the rights of ownership , they can not expect to get them as a free gift and call it industrial democracy . |
| 2 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 3 | They still said that he talked much too big , but they did stop treating him as a scruffy nonentity . |
| 4 | Its success was very evident and I would hope to keep it as a regular feature of the conference . |
| 5 | For example , while the newcomers may fail to understand the skill and local status of the farm worker , they do not wish to treat him as a social outcast — this would run counter to the notion of community with which many newcomers strongly identify . |
| 6 | Either would have regarded it as a special achievement and in either the semi-democratic command structure would have ensured that a number of men would have participated in the decision where to detonate it . |
| 7 | The film was a Western , and without guidance Clara would have dismissed it as a childish frivolity , a glorified version of The Lone Ranger . |
| 8 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 9 | If he had n't adored her he would have treated her as a credulous imbecile . |
| 10 | If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 12 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 13 | ‘ I think she might have done it as a quick way of finding out how the business worked . |
| 14 | While some may see the whole area of aesthetic response as one limited by hedonism or elitism , or may wish to view it as a superficial frill of little relevance to the real world of materialistic values , others are able to propose valid reasons why investigation into the nature of aesthetic experience should be pursued . |
| 15 | If she had thought she was showing him a stop-light , however , he must have seen it as a green one , for his arm suddenly tightened and there was a definite amorous gleam in his eye as he edged closer to her and breathed seductively , ‘ I like you so much , Fabia . ’ |
| 16 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 17 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 18 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 19 | Henry Tyler would not have described her as a happy woman , but afterward he could not say that she had seemed at all unwell . |
| 20 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |
| 21 | A few years ago if you had a machine with a 40Mb hard drive you would have described it as a high specification machine . |
| 22 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 23 | Of course the Palace ca n't afford to leave her as a loose cannon . |
| 24 | This solitary travelling , in an age when travel was dangerous , may seem to show her as an indomitable and independent woman , like Mary Kingsley in the nineteenth century ; but in fact , like most psychotics , she was extremely dependent on others . |