Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1930s , Mr Justice Stone declared that the United States Supreme Court ought not to see itself as the sole guardian of the constitution . |
| 2 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 3 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 4 | Now Paris may well be the inspiration of poets and troubadours but I do n't remember it as the fabled Athens of the West . |
| 5 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 6 | I do n't see us as the best band in the world ; we 're just putting out records because the rest of the music scene is so crap at the moment . |
| 7 | It did n't strike her as the slightest bit funny . |
| 8 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 9 | So if you ever start scratching in Casualty do n't dismiss it as the odd gnat-bite . |