Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 2 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 3 | Perhaps one of our music institutions will have the foresight to invite him as a visiting lecturer ? |
| 4 | Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait . |
| 5 | The words in fact are intended to reflect her night-time , miserable feelings but they only reflect Masefield 's failure to render her as a human being : |
| 6 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 7 | Palcy is the first black woman to make it as a big-budget director in Hollywood . |
| 8 | None the less , the supporters of the Duke of Northumberland lost no opportunity to represent her as a staunch papist , and attempted to make use of anti-papal fears to win support for their rival candidate for the throne , Jane Grey . |
| 9 | The ‘ enhanced Programme resulted from the 1978 Inner Urban Areas Act , based on a White Paper , published the previous year , on Policy for the Inner Cities ( DoE , 1977 ) , the first comprehensive policy statement on the subject to acknowledge it as a definable and cohesive problem . |
| 10 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 11 | ‘ You have already received some of the precious germ-plasm of our blessed Patriarch to kindle you as a true Imperial Fist … ’ |
| 12 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 13 | ‘ Matilda is the late King 's daughter , Hugh , and we all took that oath to recognise her as the future queen after her brother went down with the White Ship , ’ protested the Prior . |
| 14 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 15 | While Koch 's helmsmanship and the inconsistent selection of his afterguard have made headlines for yachting writers , it would be a mistake to dismiss him as a rich fool . |
| 16 | ‘ PDAG passed a motion opposing the Government 's decision to abolish it as a democratic forum involved in education and the transfer its work to Government quangos , ’ said society education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis . |
| 17 | Alice Perrers 's intimacy with the king began in the 1360s , and she received lavish gifts of jewellery and clothes , together with enough property to establish her as a substantial landowner in her own right . |
| 18 | De Gaulle 's lucidity on this point was eventually justified by events , but not before the Americans had made a concerted effort to eliminate him as a political force . |
| 19 | But they are n't in a position to harass you as the British on their home ground would be . |
| 20 | Many have thus latched on to Oakeshott 's use of tradition to identify him as a Burkean conservative . |
| 21 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 22 | It 's madness to run it as a private house . |