Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pron] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs . |
| 2 | Not many people know that Nick Faldo fancies himself as a comedian and a practical joker . |
| 3 | But the women 's fight immediately loses control and Spenser depicts them as a tiger and a lioness , beasts confronting one another with animal fury unnaturally seeking to attack their legitimate feminine identity : |
| 4 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 5 | The style of the First Book of Maccabees betrays itself as a translation from a Hebrew text : St Jerome apparently still saw the Hebrew original ( Div . |
| 6 | The prologue promises a fierce tale of ‘ orgulous princes ’ , ‘ warlike fraughage ’ , and ‘ the chance of war ’ ; but Troilus introduces himself as a character , ‘ weaker than a woman 's tear ’ . |
| 7 | The Second Book of Maccabees presents itself as a summary of a work in five books composed by Jason of Cyrene , otherwise unknown ( 2.19–28 ) . |
| 8 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 9 | For example , if the only way to be a subject is to be constituted by the existing ISAs , how are we to explain the fact that a theorist such as Connolly is so convinced of the necessity of intentional subjecthood , while Althusser views it as a contingency ? |
| 10 | ‘ Jason excites me as a player just as much as Gregory or Alex Murphy did when they where 18year-olds , ’ said Wigan chairman Jack Robinson . |
| 11 | But Fromm interprets it as a conflict between matriarchy and patriarchy ; Jung sees it as a story of ethical conflict between laziness and duty ; and Ferenczi argues that Oedipus himself is a phallic symbol since his name means literally ‘ swollen-foot ’ . |
| 12 | Lear imposes himself as a burden on his two remaining daughters by expecting them how to look after him and his retinue in his old age . |
| 13 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 14 | Today 's visitor to Paris knows them as the boulevard Saint-Michel and the boulevard Sébastopol running from North to South , with the rue de Rivoli and the rue Saint-Antoine making the East to West traverse . |
| 15 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 16 | ‘ Estella ’ means a star , showing us that Pip sees her as a light in a dim world . |
| 17 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 18 | ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’ |
| 19 | But you seem to forget Kinsella regards himself as a patriot . |
| 20 | ‘ Miss Araminta regards me as a servant , ma'am , ’ Theda said , faintly smiling , and reaching a hand out to stroke Hector 's woolly head where he lay on his blanket , as if to find some outlet for the feelings of gentleness running through her . |
| 21 | Land lies derelict , land is poorly farmed , and one rather has the feeling that Norton-Taylor regards it as a sin to own land at all . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Amanda Harris plays her as a termagant who steams about like the mad woman in the attic , her face set in a perpetual lockjawed scowl . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But Fromm interprets it as a conflict between matriarchy and patriarchy ; Jung sees it as a story of ethical conflict between laziness and duty ; and Ferenczi argues that Oedipus himself is a phallic symbol since his name means literally ‘ swollen-foot ’ . |
| 26 | I think this Samantha fancies herself as a bit of a girl , know what I mean ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Whereas I had seen the doctor who used the charity format as something of a villain , Bulgakov portrays himself as a hero in these stories and plainly expects his Soviet readership to do the same . |