Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 2 | Moving from her external trappings to her internal structure , he represents her as a sort of wooden skeleton . |
| 3 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 4 | He describes them as an investment , but critics describe the paintings as worthless rubbish . |
| 5 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 6 | He fancies himself as a gutter poet and artist . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , Joe , er , Mark Little has upped and left Oz in favour of England — after touring this country with his one-man show ( he fancies himself as a bit of a new age traveller ) , he wants to settle down in near Manchester . |
| 8 | He came to political maturity when the world was wrecked ; he sees himself as a man who can put back together what others have broken . |
| 9 | He sees himself as a protector . |
| 10 | When asked if he sees himself as a business man or a sailor , he replies without demur that he is ‘ a businessman ’ , but he also professes , a touch pugnaciously , to being ‘ a socialist ’ and believes that opportunities for the ordinary person to take part in ocean racing have become even fewer since large scale sponsorship . |
| 11 | When asked to sum up how he sees himself as a manager , Miller replies : ‘ As a player , maybe I was n't the best . |
| 12 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 13 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 14 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 15 | He sees him as an idealist , likes his ‘ spark ’ . |
| 16 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 17 | He sees it as a weakness of international law that no such machinery exists , and argues that an internationally authorised force should be set up by the UN Security Council to intervene in rogue states on various continents . |
| 18 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 19 | Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion . |
| 20 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 21 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 22 | He remembers it as a mining village/town in decline as the coal seam was coming to an end , a depressed working-class community in which sectarianism was rife . |
| 23 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 24 | I often think he regards me as a fool . |
| 25 | Though born in Britain , he regards himself as a citizen of Europe and Italy as his adopted home . |
| 26 | He regards it as a way forward for the museum and a means of providing a window for many more people on Britain 's scientific and technological expertise . |
| 27 | While it needs to be developed in terms of the production of ideologies by class formations , he regards it as a corrective to the view , often attributed to the sociology of knowledge , that a particular ideology belongs to a class . |
| 28 | And it is a characteristic of Richard Branson that wherever he is , he regards it as a party , and has usually done his best to make it such by the addition of as many people as possible . |
| 29 | In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries . |
| 30 | He asserts himself as a poet ( note that we still today think of him primarily as a " poet " rather than as a " writer " ) superior to the ridiculous doggerel of Sir Thopas . |