Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 2 | The reader should resist the temptation to think of the law as a closed set of rules and principles , and should strive to see it as a setting in which the business of politics and government is carried on . |
| 3 | Clearly something strange was happening to the Edwardian Conservative party : but does one need to label it as a flirtation with ‘ proto-Fascism ’ ? |
| 4 | He then sees displayed in a shop window , a fur coat priced at £500 , and decides he would like to buy it as a present for his wife . |
| 5 | I am not sure whether , as a hostage , you should be allowed near to these people who — although you claim them as relatives — have no cause that I can see to regard you as a friend . |
| 6 | However , should the press continue to cover the story , the government will increasingly begin to regard it as a runner . ’ |
| 7 | Power-hungry people would want to use it as a weapon — which it could very successfully be utilised as — or else as a way of controlling others en masse . |
| 8 | As a learner from experience you could decide to view it as a learning opportunity and start to experiment with different ways of running the meeting . |
| 9 | Eventually she might have to face him as a customer , across the counter of the shop . |
| 10 | ‘ If we win there before 2041 I 'll have to regard it as a bonus , ’ joked Wilkinson , frustrated at the way his players have failed to perform so often this season . |
| 11 | If there is any substance in the allegation the plaintiff must apply to join him as a defendant . |
| 12 | Each of these categories — nomadic , village , workshop and masterworkshop — has its own special qualities and appeal ; people who like nomadic rugs , for example , will tend to appreciate them as a whole , regardless of whether they originate form Persia , Anatolia or Afghanistan . |
| 13 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 14 | He 's we do n't really get to know him as a person . |
| 15 | The trustees may refuse to accept her as a beneficiary or may require any benefits to be divided with other individuals . |
| 16 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 17 | Gould ) , and the House of Lords ( of which it has been asked whether we can continue to afford it as a court of ultimate resort in criminal law , a question prompted less by economics than by an expositor 's desire for consistency ) . |
| 18 | After all , when racism takes the form of violence , they ca n't fail to recognise it as an attack on themselves , and part of a value system they can not go along with . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd love to keep him as a pet . ’ |
| 20 | The administration 's left hand may continue to fight it as a quota measure , while its right comes close to endorsing quotas to break the glass ceiling . |
| 21 | The authority refuses or did refuse to consider me as a supply teacher in nay capacity until six months had passed . |
| 22 | I have always known that she did not care to have me as a friend . ’ |