Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony piled upon irony in the shape of one group on the Virgin roster , Heaven 17 , whose ‘ image ’ portrayed them as pony-tailed businessmen in executive ‘ power ’ suits . |
| 2 | Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme , while the position of Yegor Gaidar , who was closely associated with the reform programme , was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15 . |
| 3 | Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude . |
| 4 | They saw them as fertile slopes on which to grow tea and coffee , as well as a cool and pleasant place to live when it became uncomfortably hot nearer sea level . |
| 5 | Fortunately , Mike 's mother took them as further manifestation of her confused mental state . |
| 6 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 7 | They were very positive about community care and saw it as natural development of their work . |
| 8 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 9 | The media , once again , saw it as further indication of encroaching madness . |
| 10 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |
| 11 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 12 | I got your address from your driving licence — you gave it as further proof of your identity . |
| 13 | Michael Sendivogius was imprisoned by the Emperor Rudolph on pain of yielding his secrets , and it was he who wrote what struck me as fair comment on the Hermetic enterprise in an imaginary complaint of the alchemist to Nature : |
| 14 | He died between the end of Trinity term and 19 September 1301 , when Ralph de Hengham [ q.v. ] replaced him as chief justice of the Common Bench . |
| 15 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |