Example sentences of "has [verb] [pers pn] as a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll .
2 Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission .
3 He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history :
4 He has employed you as a guide .
5 Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch .
6 The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds .
7 Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account .
8 Since then they 've made LA Story together , and she has encouraged him as an actor rather than a comic .
9 Alexander III of Scotland has left us as an heir a three-year-old Norwegian princess .
10 " Now you are truly betrothed , Sara , for this is a keepsake from Dom João , and he has sent it as a token of his promise to make you his wife . "
11 Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott has described it as an art ‘ needing the patience of an animal ’ , and undoubtedly there would be times when physical strength and endurance were the key to survival , for survive they must to make any contribution from their efforts .
12 If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs .
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