Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 2 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 3 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 4 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 5 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 6 | A rather different view of endogenous technical advance sees it as the product of experience or ‘ learning by doing ’ ( Arrow , 1962 ) . |
| 7 | Another early contributor , A. W. Reed , sees it as the task of research to illuminate this spirit : |
| 8 | The official history of the movement sees it as the outgrowth of ‘ homes and refuges for the destitute and institutes opened in the evenings with a mainly educational purpose in view ’ . |
| 9 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 10 | It regards itself as the guardian of the water environment and has successfully prosecuted thirty polluters so far , with many cases still pending . |
| 11 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 12 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 13 | Jane is a disgruntled , mean and worldly woman who presents herself as the victim of the men she sets out to attract and soon sees through and rejects . |
| 14 | However , a memorial stone in the chancel floor of St Stephen 's identifies her as the daughter of James Dixon , barrister . |
| 15 | His own experiences crowd upon him , even from earliest infancy ; he recognizes them as the sources of his own creative powers ; it is as if doors were ‘ open ’ . |
| 16 | A third view treats them as the forerunners of a managerial class destined to impose its own oppressive rule upon peasants and workers . |
| 17 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 18 | The novel suggests itself as the work of a novelist intent on a gruesome entertainment . |