Example sentences of "which [verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 2 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 3 | She 's spent 6 years researching his life and she 's now written a book which describes him as a talented , but essentially ordinary man . |
| 4 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 5 | But on a hummock by the road a starling-sized bird turned round to reveal a brilliant crimson front which identified it as a long-tailed meadowlark , locally called military starling . |
| 6 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 7 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 8 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 9 | My own suggestion that we were dealing with a whole nest of Mata Haris was declared plausible but incorrect while Team C , consisting of two middle-aged couples , produced two theories , the second of which named me as a potential mole ! |
| 10 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 11 | This provoked fierce opposition on the part of the Magistrates ' Association , however , which viewed it as an unwarranted attack on the independence of magistrates , and just five years later the measure was repealed as a result . |
| 12 | A lepidopterist might be able to quote a going price for a preserved chalk-hill blue in good condition , wild rabbits have a price when shot and skinned , but the market price of Twyford Down itself would be low if sold with legal constraints which kept it as an open , public space and high if sold with planning permission for houses or industry ( or even a road ) . |
| 13 | The new committee found an immediate ally in the district societies , which saw it as a potent means of influencing the Institute 's technical effort . |
| 14 | Blackburn has been associated with the New Left Review 's analysis of the Labour Party , which saw it as a Labourist trend in politics with no connection to socialism . |
| 15 | I have yet to see much validation of this support women give each other , especially in working-class communities , which recognise it as a political affiliation , a movement . |
| 16 | Pouting seductively , she assumed a pose which presented her as a raving sexpot , as she alluringly slipped the flimsy straps of her silk and lace petticoat from her ivory shoulders . |
| 17 | Ltd. ( ‘ the dock company ’ ) , which operates it as a commercial port . |
| 18 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 19 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |
| 20 | The decision has drawn protests from environmentalists , who warn that it could have a damaging effect on the Danube valley ecosystem , and the Hungarian government , which views it as a possible infringement of territorial integrity . |
| 21 | This raises another spectre : as palladium is the key , what power brokerage will it give the countries which have it as a natural mineral resource — USSR and South Africa ? |
| 22 | Commander Leonard Burt , who was to be the recipient of Joyce 's confessions many years later , noted this sense of grievance which characterised him as a young man : |