Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
2 | We should replace them as the Labour Party 's main op opponents . |
3 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
4 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
5 | We 'll put it as the last item . |
6 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
7 | In the office we shall remember our as the hard working , level headed lady who always made a good job of the task in hand . |
8 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
9 | In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally . |
10 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
11 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
12 | So either one can not imagine postal activity in isolation , because it is conceptually bound up with so much else , or one can imagine it as the futile activity of a deluded loner . |