Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 2 | These men did not describe themselves as Zuwayi hurr , but even though their activities were largely circumscribed by their police work , they maintained some activities which were typical of a free Zuwaya . |
| 3 | Hollywood studio chiefs do not see her as prime material to star as tough-talking Det Chief Insp Jane Tennison . |
| 4 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 5 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 6 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 7 | I wan I do n't want him as Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues . |
| 9 | ‘ They do n't see themselves as old-style state directors , ’ says Mr Gaidar . |
| 10 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 11 | He certainly did n't take it as any evidence of preferment . |