Example sentences of "could [verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depopulation from plague was a very real factor in the long term , and while it might not destroy a village immediately , it could weaken it as a social and economic unit . |
| 2 | Indeed it did , to anybody who remembered or could visual-ise it as a busy dock . |
| 3 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 4 | His description was circulated to all police forces throughout Britain , and a number of anxious relatives visited the mortuary to see if they could recognise him as a missing husband , brother or son , but no one did . |
| 5 | With eyes half closed he could see it as a miniature cannon . |
| 6 | You could use them as a decorative device on invitations , or as part of the design on your personal writing paper . |
| 7 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 8 | Although , you could view it as a bad contract , as there are some things in there that are slightly ambiguous . ’ |