Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
| 2 | While commentators have dismissed her as a serious contender , those who worked intimately with the Prince and watched Mountbatten 's machinations at first-hand were convinced that marriage between Prince Charles and Amanda Knatchbull was a virtual certainty . |
| 3 | In our answer to question 4 we have included it as a current account balance in order to reduce Susan 's exposure vis-a -vis Bob . |
| 4 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
| 5 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 6 | Bonar Law has usually received a bad press from historians , who have portrayed him as a hard , dour , humourless fanatic . |
| 7 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 8 | Some have described her as a 1920s version of much-admired Kate Adie , who always appears to be in the thick of things wherever the action is ! |
| 9 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 10 | The police have described it as a miraculous escape . |