Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb -s] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 2 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 3 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 4 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 5 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |
| 6 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 7 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 8 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |