Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [adv] [verb] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you know er , as I said , I think really an awful lot of it is in your own perception of , I mean what someone here might call emotional abuse , I would just regard as a challenge . |
| 2 | Abbado is also a joy , and Barenboim I would now count as a personal friend . |
| 3 | Sonia Gandhi , the widow of the assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi , confirmed on Oct. 12 that she would not stand as a candidate in a by-election scheduled for Nov. 16 in her late husband 's Amethi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh . |
| 4 | ‘ I just said that I was having a drink with her to ask her what she would really like as a wedding present from the firm , because men are no good at that sort of thing . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , while at the peak of his long and difficult reign , and while engaged upon an ideal cause that represented all that he stood for in terms of imperial and religious aims , Frederick Barbarossa probably died from what we would now recognise as a massive heart failure . |
| 6 | As early as the 1740s , scholars had deployed what we would now recognise as a valid historical methodology for questioning the veracity of scriptural accounts . |
| 7 | Oct. 1 had been the date set for signature of the accord , the main points of which had been agreed on Aug. 7 [ see p. 39039 ] , but on Sept. 29 Dhlakama announced that he would not sign as a number of issues remained to be resolved to his satisfaction . |
| 8 | But he would also say as a race it was nothing special : as a race it was ‘ out of all proportion to the fame and fortune ’ and needed ‘ no more ability than any other place ’ . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for his department said it would effectively act as a cap on costs . |
| 10 | If the piranha fish did not brush its fins gently against a member of the opposite sex each month it would not exist as a species . |
| 11 | But it would not count as a non-branching hierarchy ; branching can be regarded as a canonical feature of a taxonomic hierarchy . |
| 12 | The compensation could not be increased if the council had lost it 's appeal and it would therefore remain as a maximum of £1 million . |
| 13 | I recently purchased a frozen meal described as two portions , but it would only do as a meal for one . |
| 14 | Even Bleuler himself considered what most of us would now recognise as a truism : that ‘ autism ’ is a feature of normal mental life , accounting for the emergence , or in some cases deliberate exploration , of ideas that arise without logic from unconscious layers of the mind . |