Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] [pers pn] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I neither would nor could have murdered him , but I do not regard him as a loss . ’
2 Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament .
3 For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word .
4 To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms .
5 Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production .
6 She thought of Giles Carnaby both continuously and not at all ; he was permanently in the head , but as some unavoidable elemental force — she could not consider him as a person , reflect upon character or deeds .
7 She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife .
8 If this was n't enough , the state does not recognise you as a mother until you are sixteen , when you are eligible to claim supplementary benefit , maternity grant and milk and vitamin tokens .
9 His handful of Masses , three of them ‘ parodies ’ of motets by his teacher Mouton , do not show him as an innovator .
10 ‘ He does not see her as a woman , ’ Sydel said .
11 ‘ I do not see him as a killer .
12 Do not use visual aids for the sake of using them and do not use them as a defence to hide behind if you are nervous .
13 In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on .
14 It has already been seen that , if the defendant knows that his assailant was a policeman , it will not avail him as a defence if he mistakenly thinks that the policeman was exceeding his powers .
15 " Then mark this , Master Harry : if you wo n't take Sam here on at fishing , you 'll not have me as a wife .
16 There is also a particular difficulty with care for the unemployed ; not only is the research team unable to use return to work as an end point , but the patient also does not have it as an objective and he has therefore nothing to aim at .
17 They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong .
18 Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids .
19 ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said .
20 In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so .
21 However , if the prosecution does not raise it as a motive for murder the defence is unlikely to challenge this .
22 But she did not strike him as a girl who would get much pleasure out of flagellating herself with self-loathing and trembling hypocrisy .
23 Someone would be made to die for the crime ; but for all his reservations , Merymose did not strike him as the kind of man who would fall on just anyone in order to present a solution .
24 In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . "
25 On paper , Peter could have described his mother 's face in terms of its component parts but he could not visualize it as a whole .
26 And , and that 's the only reason why he wanted her there , that 's the only reason why he could not accept her as a friend or an , as a companion .
27 Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’
28 She began to affect , in History lessons , an interest in the Soviet Union : such was the climate of opinion in this progressive boarding school in the north of England in the early 1950s , amongst the sons and daughters of tradesmen and doctors , industrialists and university lecturers , dentists and estate agents , lawyers and farmers , that her interest was regarded with awe and alarm or with frank disbelief , by those who did not dismiss it as the affectation which , in fact , at this stage it was .
29 ‘ Do n't treat me as a child ! ’ she cried scornfully , ‘ You know that I love you , and that 's why I 'm being packed off . ’
30 The thing is , the trouble with that is when you try and understand or argue about something like that you ca n't treat it as a work of art cos it is n't it 's a functioning building
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