Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 2 | The accounts submitted to the Revenue included these costs as a deduction and our computations claimed them as a legitimate expense . |
| 3 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 4 | Although Serbian officials dismissed the incident as an outbreak of mass hysteria , Albanians described it as a mass poisoning perpetrated by Serbian nationalists , and anti-Serbian and anti-Montenegrin demonstrations quickly broke out across the province . |
| 5 | Some nationalists saw it as a cosmetic measure , to end the talks on a high note for Unionists . |
| 6 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 7 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |
| 8 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 9 | Although O'Neill tried to present the case as one of the law simply taking its natural course to deal with illegal disorder , the Free Presbyterians saw it as a deliberate attempt to use the apparatus of the state to suppress true Bible Protestantism . |
| 10 | Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government . |
| 11 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 12 | Placards around the Dundee plant gates depicted him as an alien enemy from south of the border . |
| 13 | When the Incest Act was finally carried in 1908 , purity feminists claimed it as a personal triumph . |
| 14 | Individualist theorists interpreted it as a social contract . |
| 15 | A story appeared in the papers in the usual tabloid style which said that Linford had a secret criminal past and that the police viewed him as a dangerous , vicious character . |
| 16 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 17 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 18 | This meant that some Christians followed Jesus as a Guru , others as a moral guerrilla leader and still others worshipped him as a perfect person . |
| 19 | He attended the assembly 's sessions regularly and on several occasions used it as a parliamentary forum in which to press his case . |
| 20 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 21 | Some of Pugachev 's followers identified him as the true Tsar , Peter III . |
| 22 | The Tories saw it as a constitutional disaster without parallel , the Whigs as a famous and hard-won victory for a bold and far-reaching measure against the reactionary defence of an out-dated and corrupt constitution . |