Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would rather describe it as a lively interest . ’ |
| 2 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 3 | I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea . |
| 4 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 5 | Barry Humphries ' cartoon hero Barry McKenzie made cracks about Château Chunder , the star wine from down under , fondly describing it as a great emetic . |
| 6 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 7 | Temple was sincere in his desire to preserve native society from too sudden change : he enjoyed its idiosyncrasies , respected its vitality , and greatly loved it as an unkempt garden in which the product of a more ordered civilization might find repose . |
| 8 | ‘ I only use it as a last resort , when the dog is impeding my progress . |
| 9 | ‘ But now I only use it as a last resort . ’ |
| 10 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 11 | When Ferrar received it he read it over and over and kissed and embraced it , saying that he could not sufficiently admire it as a rich jewel , and most worthy to be in the hands and hearts of all true Christians that feared God and loved the Church of England . |
| 12 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 13 | Although nominally Producer and Script Editor for the series , neither John Wiles nor Donald Tosh had much to do with this serial , the former greatly resenting it as a three-month obstacle to his attempts to raise Doctor Who towards a more sophisticated and adult level . |
| 14 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But they obviously see it as an important matter of principle , so I ought not to stand in their way . ’ |
| 16 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 17 | The Apache is better than most in this respect but I would nevertheless regard it as an excellent-four seater with the fifth seat reserved for occasions when no baggage is being carried . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 19 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 20 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 21 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 22 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 23 | I think I can just glimpse it as a dim fuzz , though large telescopes are needed to bring out its form and its very hot central star , which has a surface temperature of around 75000 degrees . |
| 24 | Carolingian rulers did n't just receive them as a given : rather , they created , recreated , shaped them for themselves . |
| 25 | and then just do it as a straight bar graph . |
| 26 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 27 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 28 | But most just see it as a fun way of relieving stress . |
| 29 | Whisked ‘ Andrew has always regarded her as a good mother but he can no longer turn a blind eye to her behaviour . |
| 30 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |