Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb past] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a combative book , The Art of Cézanne , he expounded a theory of rhythm in art which he advanced as the key to Cézanne 's success . |
| 2 | We saw his glory , the glory which he received as the Father 's only Son . |
| 3 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 4 | Lévi-Strauss had already described the fundamental structure of society and language in terms of the exchange of women , which he saw as the basis of all exchange : |
| 5 | While he continued to raise the spectre of a return to German hegemony , his new policy ( voiced for the first time at Bordeaux in September 1949 ) revolved around a Franco-German entente , which he saw as the basis for a European confederation . |
| 6 | In an earlier meeting with political leaders ( including opposition figures ) , Rodríguez had requested support for land reform which he described as the country 's most pressing problem , but he insisted on respect for private property rights , as well as the squatters ' vacation of the occupied land , before such reforms could be implemented . |
| 7 | These developments of the soil system were achieved within soil science but adoption and development of the approach in physical geography was achieved by Huggett ( 1975 ) when he extended the catena approach to the drainage basin , which he used as the basis for a model of the soil system , and attempted to simulate the flux of plasmic material in an idealized basin . |
| 8 | Prime Minister Petre Roman on April 29 proposed an extensive government reshuffle which he portrayed as the introduction of dynamic personalities to maintain the pace of economic reform , and which was interpreted by commentators as an assault on bureaucratic opposition to reform being encountered in several ministries . |
| 9 | Constantius was determined to exact retribution , not only on those who attempted to usurp his authority , but also on paganism , which he regarded as the root of all opposition to the Imperial House and its Christian tenets . |
| 10 | Brookes introduced the concept of ‘ periodical utility ’ , which he defined as the number of references a paper could be expected to attract in its particular library context during the period it remained in the library . |
| 11 | In late 1927 the PCF offered Nizan sanctuary from what he perceived as the alienation of bourgeois society . |
| 12 | His aims included rectifying what he saw as the lack of information on derived publications , and on the time differences between thesis completion and publication . |
| 13 | To him , the " checks and balances " of Natural Selection were only some of the forces operating in what he saw as the evolution of spirit or mind through matter . |
| 14 | His elitist paternalism underlay laws which instituted strict political and social controls for what he saw as the country 's politically immature population . |
| 15 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 16 | The poet did not share this sense , he actively disliked it , but he could not escape — not even in Europe — from what he saw as the balefulness of that inheritance . |
| 17 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 18 | Having constructed a working model , as it were , he left his conscious mind to one side and relied upon his ear — what he described as the interdependence of rhythm and diction , or the recognition of meaning when it is embodied in cadence . |
| 19 | Rickford attacked what he described as the hysteria of the opposition to BT : the fear is that the US is being ‘ opened up to a conspiracy of foreigners against which the US needs to defend itself . ’ |
| 20 | My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Burton also referred to the need to maintain what he described as the quality of managers in prisons , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has also spoken about that . |
| 21 | There had been the row over Ray Honeyford 's diatribes against what he regarded as the nightmare of multiculturalism imposed on well-intentioned schools by a combination of the race relations industry and ‘ volatile ’ , ‘ half-educated ’ Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents ( Honey ford , 1983 , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | In November 1340 Edward returned to England , furious at what he regarded as the mismanagement of government during his absence . |
| 23 | He set great store by what he regarded as the dignity of the athlete , treating his players as human beings instead of mere paid servants , which was how most other players were regarded elsewhere . |