Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is quite bitter about what has happened , resentful at what she sees as the inconsistent attitudes towards pregnancy and teenage motherhood held by members of her family and other West Indian people and still upset at her father 's extreme change in attitude towards her when he found out she was not his daughter . |
| 2 | In this respect it is interesting to note a comment made by Andreasen on what she interprets as the relative failure of the Ellis survey to demonstrate very significant evidence of psychosis ( or the tendency to it ) among the eminent persons he surveyed . |
| 3 | What she explains as the free manner of speech of West Coast Canadians , which would probably go down quite well in the United States , has raised Canadian eyebrows . |
| 4 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 5 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 6 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 7 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 8 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 9 | When Waggoner talks of the entrepreneurial spirit that exists on the Tour , he always comes back to Buddy Gardner , whom he sees as the typical journeyman pro . |
| 10 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 11 | It acts as the sole broker in the bargaining and competition for resources between bureaucratic organizations . |
| 12 | The Bank of England has a pivotal role in the London money market in that it acts as the main banker to both the central government and the clearing banks . |
| 13 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 14 | He survives as the semi-psychotic Darkman and , disguised with his artificial skin , takes his revenge and tries to reconstruct his relationship with the lawyer Frances McDormand . |
| 15 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 16 | One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just send off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article . |
| 17 | One of the more fascinating changes has been the introduction of word processing equipment , whereby someone who types his article can just sent off something like a floppy disk to his publisher , and without much intervention it appears as the printed article . |
| 18 | It appears as the instrumental introduction ( and two instrumental interludes ) , it comes four times in each of the two choruses , and it is still going when the song fades out . |
| 19 | Bull was always , first and foremost , a virtuoso both of technical invention and obviously of performance , even in compositions probably or certainly intended for the organ where he appears as the direct heir of Preston and Blitheman . |
| 20 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 21 | Schumpeter 's main substantive target is what he regards as the nonsensical idea of classical democratic theory that the people can exercise a rational choice on individual questions and can give effect to this by choosing representatives . |
| 22 | It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years . |
| 23 | This is a clear example of the third basic kind of doubt , a kind so common that it qualifies as the twentieth-century doubt par excellence . |
| 24 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 25 | Title II makes considerable amendments to the Treaty establishing the EEC ( which it renames as the European Community ) . |
| 26 | It serves as the rural outreach programme for the Community Health Department and operates from within the premises of Tintswalo Hospital in the N.E. Transvaal . |
| 27 | Light is not visible as an object in a particular place : rather , it operates as the invisible catalyst through which everything around takes form and shape . |
| 28 | He is critical not only of what he views as the aesthetic escapism of modernism , but also of the crude and facile schematisation of Stalinist socialist realism . |
| 29 | It comes as the central priority because without a successful economy nothing else prospers . |