Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pron] as an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 2 | This appalled Mrs Browning , who said at once that it was God using her as an instrument and that Wilson should have had more faith . |
| 3 | The GMC called me as an expert witness . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , Tate saw himself as an Impressionist . ’ |
| 5 | An artificial log glowed in the manorial fireplace and I wondered whether she was admitting that it was n't really very nice now , and how often Syl felt it as an obligation to take his mother for drives around the countryside . |
| 6 | A problem arises with the finale , which Beethoven marks Allegro ma non troppo ( like Toscanini , Brüggen treats it as an Allegro molto ) but there is no doubting that the work has a lot of fire in its belly . |
| 7 | By 1920 , although still receiving the Conservative whip in Parliament , Herbert regarded himself as an Independent , formally crossing the floor on the Irish vote on 20 November and thereafter sitting on whichever side he felt inclined . |
| 8 | Dr Clarke shows him as an insider addressing officials and economists of many shades of opinion , including some whose position was close to his own . |
| 9 | Upon his return Abbot Suger employed him as an ambassador to the court of Matilda and her son , Henry . |
| 10 | The Ultra community at B.P. saw itself as an élite within an élite … |
| 11 | The Renault Safrane presents itself as an executive express , so this was an appropriate exercise , involving poorly-surfaced roads in Czechoslovakia , the smooth by-ways of Austria and Switzerland , and Germany 's limit-free autobahns . |
| 12 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 13 | Whenever Layton had a promotional tour or appearance , a poetry reading or a workshop ( poetry-reading in Canada predated Ginsberg 's sensation with Howl that set in motion the ‘ beat-poetry ’ style , despite Scobie arguing it as an influence on Leonard 's background ) , he would take Leonard along , acquaint him with the nuts and bolts of the business and get him to read some of his own poetry . |
| 14 | Adam Smith presented them as an example of a small group of workers so strategically placed in the chain of production that they could command high wages . |