Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 2 | In a positively eulogistic survey in 1933 , one author proclaimed them as a saving glory of European society as against newer cultures like the United States where ‘ crude forces ’ threatened the social structure . |
| 3 | In this extract the senior devil instructs his nephew to use them as a tactic in subverting the progress of the new believer : |
| 4 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 5 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 6 | The procedure circulated them as the thing that 's in place . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation . |
| 9 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 10 | The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness . |
| 11 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 12 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 13 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 14 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
| 15 | She therefore engages in a diagnostic experiment of identifying historically distinct meanings of the concept in order to use them as a measure against contemporary political usage . |
| 16 | The hyperventilation brings on the symptoms , but the patient perceives them as a consequence of the food or chemical — so the pattern of behaviour is reinforced . |
| 17 | Most important of all , it meant a decline in the relative importance of privateers and even , at least in Britain , a tendency to regard them as a hindrance to the work of the navy proper . |
| 18 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 19 | Here the question is subjective : did the person hearing the words in fact interpret them as a dismissal or a resignation ? |
| 20 | A third view treats them as the forerunners of a managerial class destined to impose its own oppressive rule upon peasants and workers . |