Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen .
2 In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university .
3 After the defection of members like John Strachey and Harold Nicolson , Mosley 's movement relaunched itself as the British Union of Fascists on I October 1932 .
4 Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader .
5 Marxism invented itself as the proper understanding of the nature of history seen from the perspective of labour , and should therefore have become the perspective and consciousness of labour .
6 One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble .
7 Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home .
8 But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world .
9 His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day .
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