Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 2 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 3 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 4 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 5 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 6 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 7 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 8 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 9 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 10 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 11 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 12 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 13 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 14 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 15 | Some of Pugachev 's followers identified him as the true Tsar , Peter III . |
| 16 | Aneurin Bevan , who led the revolt against the charges , portrayed them as the direct result of the financial strains caused by the rearmament programme . |
| 17 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 18 | In 1986 deep-sea researcher Jacques Cousteau selected him as the still photographer for the research ship Calypso |
| 19 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 20 | News of the resignation was greeted with jubilation by the protesters , many of whom hailed it as the true start of Bulgaria 's revolution against communist rule . |
| 21 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 22 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 23 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 24 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 25 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 26 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 27 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 28 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 29 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 30 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |