Example sentences of "he [verb] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the personnel manageress said later : ‘ We may ask him to appear as the real thing next time . ’ |
| 2 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 3 | THE DOCTOR — HE posed as the distinguished society gynaecologist . |
| 4 | He exuded confidence , and even cracked jokes , at what he described as the pitiful state of the mujahedin 's strategy conducted by Pakistan . |
| 5 | The removal of Saddam Hussein was frequently stated not to be an explicit allied war aim , but allied leaders nevertheless referred on a number of occasions to the desirability of such an outcome , notably on Feb. 15 when US President George Bush urged the Iraqi people to overthrow what he described as the brutal dictatorship . |
| 6 | The idea that conversation proceeds according to a principle , known and applied by all human beings , was first proposed in a limited form by the philosopher Paul Grice ( 1975 ) , who put forward what he described as the co-operative principle . |
| 7 | Ashton continued creating roles for him in Birthday Offering , Monotones and Ondine Act III , and he excelled as the Blue Boy in Les Patineurs . |
| 8 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 9 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 10 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 11 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 12 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 13 | He saluted as the great pioneer of National Socialism not Friedrich Nietzsche nor Oswald Spengler , certainly not Hitler nor Mussolini , but the embattled genius of Thomas Carlyle . |
| 14 | Supervising the diggers was a large man he recognised as the Irish-Scandinavian bishop from Saxony whose name be believed to be Hrolf . |
| 15 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 16 | He arrived as the black district of Watts , Los Angeles was exploding . |
| 17 | He acted as the principal connection between King , Council , and Parliament ; for , until Robert Cecil went to the Lords in 1604 , the Secretary was usually a commoner and was normally the Crown 's principal mouthpiece in the Lower House . |
| 18 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 19 | He acted as the focal point for the enthusiasm of many hundreds of volunteer workers of every social background up and down the country . |
| 20 | The struggle between these two classes was for Marx the key to understanding modern society and its likely future , which he envisaged as the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism by the proletariat leading ultimately to a classless communist society . |
| 21 | When Waggoner talks of the entrepreneurial spirit that exists on the Tour , he always comes back to Buddy Gardner , whom he sees as the typical journeyman pro . |
| 22 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 23 | A more integrated approach to the environment has also been preferred by Coates who during the 1970s , which he characterized as the Environmental Decade , edited a volume ( Coates , 1971 ) on Environmental Geomorphology , which was defined as : |
| 24 | He survives as the semi-psychotic Darkman and , disguised with his artificial skin , takes his revenge and tries to reconstruct his relationship with the lawyer Frances McDormand . |
| 25 | Hardly surprising , no doubt , since the entire thrust of Nizan 's work was aimed at disrupting what he perceived as the hypocritical serenity and intolerable indifference of an unjust world . |
| 26 | Nizan 's disappointment at the realisation that the new Soviet society was still very much in its infancy , and that a fully developed Soviet state , liberated from morbid thoughts of death , was still only a distant future possibility , merely served to heighten his anger at what he perceived as the limitless class oppression of French society : hunger , poverty , torture , war . |
| 27 | Bull was always , first and foremost , a virtuoso both of technical invention and obviously of performance , even in compositions probably or certainly intended for the organ where he appears as the direct heir of Preston and Blitheman . |
| 28 | Schumpeter 's main substantive target is what he regards as the nonsensical idea of classical democratic theory that the people can exercise a rational choice on individual questions and can give effect to this by choosing representatives . |
| 29 | ‘ Progressive ’ educational sentiments also provided important elements in Baden-Powell 's Boy Scout philosophy , and he never tired of criticising what he saw as the dulling conformity and uninspired education provided by the State . |
| 30 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |