Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An oriental Korean card game , played for points with the computer facing you as the opponent . |
| 2 | His 60-year-old wife called in police , claiming he had punched her during the early hours after the ceremony to install him as the 18th civic leader at Stockton . |
| 3 | The Communists saw themselves as the only alternative to the Labour , Liberal and Conservative Parties . |
| 4 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 5 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 6 | Devices are available too for giving variable prominence to one or other of the participants in the process to identify it as the topic . |
| 7 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 8 | The right characterise it as the ‘ nanny state ’ stifling initiative and giving unproductive employment to the middle classes . |
| 9 | The procedure circulated them as the thing that 's in place . |
| 10 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 11 | Cobb argues that social support arises in the eye of the beholder , and is anything that influences the person to perceive himself as the recipient of positive affect ; any information ‘ leading the subject to believe that he is cared for and loved … esteemed and valued … ’ |
| 12 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 13 | The official history of the movement sees it as the outgrowth of ‘ homes and refuges for the destitute and institutes opened in the evenings with a mainly educational purpose in view ’ . |
| 14 | The Kurds see themselves as the forgotten people of modern times , although few have forgotten the name of the best-known Kurd of all — Salahuddin or Saladin . |
| 15 | In the book the generals see themselves as the heroes anxious to save America . |
| 16 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 17 | It was then the turn of the Americans to see themselves as the party whose imperative task it was to rescue a friend from the consequences of her own folly . |
| 18 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 19 | The novel suggests itself as the work of a novelist intent on a gruesome entertainment . |
| 20 | Indeed there is no doubt that in overthrowing capitalism , and seeing it as the source of all modern evils , the Soviets saw themselves as the true heirs of the Enlightenment . |
| 21 | The last five years have seen the DUP establish itself as the voice of about half of the unionist population . |
| 22 | Here the monster is alive and well , but the children identify her as the Medusa of the legend . |
| 23 | The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " . |
| 24 | Although he concedes that this kind of research is sometimes necessary , he deplores the tendency to regard it as the norm . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’ |
| 26 | The establishment of DATEC was by no means universally welcomed in the art world , many artists and designers being strongly opposed to links with TEC ; the Association of Art Institutions , for example , urged the DES to recognize it as the appropriate organization to represent all aspects of art and design education . |