Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 2 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 3 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 4 | For someone who describes herself as a late starter in sailing — she first stepped into a dinghy 15 years ago at the age of 29 — Mary Falk has accumulated a phenomenal amount of experience . |
| 5 | While , when Leeds scores a similar ( except better effort ) bollex head ( Coppell ) describes it as a lucky passage of play and not from a great footie team . |
| 6 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 7 | Mention UK hip hop and he immediately denounces it as a pale imitation of the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 8 | What interests me as a social anthropologist is not just that human beings behave in a lot of different unexpected ways but that the patterning of these differences of behaviour also varies ; and it is the continuities and the variations in these underlying patterns which are the real focus of my interest . |
| 9 | But Branson , 42 , does not want the simulators sitting idle and sees them as a new money-spinner . |
| 10 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 11 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 12 | KOONS sees himself as a direct descendant of the Baroque — ‘ Bernini and stuff like that ’ — a florid exuberance in revolt against all elitism , emotional coldness and stuffed shirts . |
| 13 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 14 | The basic complexity is one of asymmetry , which in these conditions shows itself as a deepseated contradiction between the reproduction of market relations ( both directly , within the market , and indirectly , within state and educational functions ) and the consequences of such reproduction in certain sensitive and perhaps crucial areas of public morality , respect for authority and actual crime . |
| 15 | The Library sees itself as a major provider of an enquiry service within RBGE , and also as a switching centre for specialist enquiries which we forward to the most appropriate staff for answer . |
| 16 | Although GEC has no plans to move into the growing marker for digital applications of GaAs chips the company sees itself as a major player in GaAs wafers for ‘ simple ’ analogue devices . |
| 17 | The Initiative wants OSF to contribute to the Unix specification for ACE , and sees itself as a possible vehicle for knitting the discordant elements of the establishment together . |
| 18 | The convenors of the conference were drawn from two ideological camps in South Africa 's extra-parliamentary opposition : the Mass Democratic Movement ( MDM ) , which is ideologically aligned to the outlawed African National Congress , and the BCM , which was founded by Steve Biko and sees itself as a third force between the ANC and the banned Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ) . |
| 19 | What differentiates the Asiatic system is that while in the ancient or feudal systems the community sees itself as a fundamental unit and as the holder of its common property , in the oriental case it does not . |
| 20 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |
| 21 | Heterosexuality , once it is exposed as an exchange of women between men , reveals itself as a mediated form of homosexuality . |
| 22 | She sees herself as a driving force to get new ideas for new courses onto the University books particularly interdisciplinary courses and others which , she says , have got glamourous , ‘ rather sexy ’ images . |
| 23 | TONI Halliday sees herself as a hard NorthEast woman . |
| 24 | On the day he is told he has been cured , Henry receives a mysterious female visitor who introduces herself as a fellow thief . |
| 25 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 26 | Above all , it 's a relaxing therapy and she sees it as a major way of helping a runner ‘ warm down ’ . |
| 27 | Some cover may be withdrawn as the insurance company sees it as a greater risk . |
| 28 | When Mitchell nabs a Mafia gangster and cop killer the district attorney 's office sees it as a perfect opportunity to exercise the death penalty . |
| 29 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 30 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |