Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] 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 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 4 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |