Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany .
2	Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride .
3	Oh there was this interview with Mick Jagger yeah but like it must have been written about cos they described him as a neanderthal rocker .
4	Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations .
5	They reported it as a negligent discharge during a change of the guard .
6	This time they saw him as a public enemy .
7	They saw us as a natural choice to work with .
8	When the Knights first took over the island on their expulsion from the eastern Mediterranean , they saw it as a penitential desert exile .
9	Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain .
10	The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests .
11	They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past .
12	But they greeted her as an old friend .

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