Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 2 | At the end of my foundation year I 'd been voted in as Social Secretary , in charge of putting on all the shows there . |
| 3 | Thatcher is voted in as Tory leader . |
| 4 | Stuart Wilson , previously honorary secretary was voted in to take the office of captain and Gordon Keith , previously treasurer , was voted in as honorary secretary . |
| 5 | Bentley customers are younger but no less affluent than typical Rolls-Royce buyers ; they must presumably be looked upon as good investments because they are more likely to make a repeat purchase than their Rolls-Royce counterparts . |
| 6 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 7 | Now that South Africa has entered a stage of transition to a political democracy , these NGO health services remain isolated pockets , but some of them are looked upon as possible models for health care in a future dispensation . |
| 8 | There must , of course , be money-making enterprises as well to buy those necessities that can not be grown on the farm , but these will be looked upon as secondary calls on the agricultural operations in which farm surpluses are sold to supplement the cash income from non-farming sources . |
| 9 | Left realism is not intentionally racist , but it has been responded to as such , because of the complex element of police racism . |
| 10 | British Ministers are looked on as grubby messengers with grubby messages . |
| 11 | In fact , Lee ( 1966 , 1974 ) suggests two related strategies ; one referred to as Developmental Sentence Types ( DST ) is designed to help the teacher or therapist classify pre-sentence utterances , while Developmental Sentence Scoring ( DSS ) is a method of quantifying the ‘ grammatical load ’ which is carried by complete sentences . |
| 12 | That was what Mary called currant pudding , and his mother referred to as boiled fruit suet . |
| 13 | Their stance is typified by one young officer 's remark , when faced with a recalcitrant discharger , that ‘ all cases should be looked at as potential prosecutions ’ . |
| 14 | Now because the government has a , plays a much bigger role in the economy the government will be in charge of what you might think of as industrial employment so er a lot of manufacturing , heavy industry er mining so on and so forth will be run as a national as a national industry , right and er wages in that nationalized industry will not be er set at market levels but will be set at , by some institutional mechanism that wo n't reflect demand and supply or reflect the rent seeking and rent server rent preserving behaviour of civil servants and government quangos er so on and so forth but you must bear in mind that the government sector will er the public and semi public sector in developing countries is vast in comparison to er to develop the countries and as a result wages set in er in the government sector er will erm will be the driving force for all industrial employment , so what with wages and industrial employment . |
| 15 | There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension . |
| 16 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |
| 17 | Although , and it is important to stress this , most of these methods arose and developed from a diverse range of sources and traditions , their contemporary unity was a rather later achievement , as that collection of ideas we can refer to as variable analysis . |
| 18 | Such cases I shall refer to as hybrid judicial review actions . |
| 19 | Those aspects of the context which are directly reflected in the text , and which need to be called upon to interpret the text , we shall refer to as activated features of context and suggest that they constitute the contextual framework within which the topic is constituted , that is , the topic framework . |
| 20 | They came across as corporate mercenaries obsessed with money and equipment and , fittingly , they were big in Japan . |
| 21 | Ruach and nephesh can be thought of as each having their own circle of meaning . |
| 22 | According to this account the formation of associations during pre-exposure and the loss of associability are not to be thought of as rival interpretations of latent inhibition . |
| 23 | Unit trusts must buy back any units investors wish to sell , at the prevailing price , and so investors can obtain liquidity at any time , although of course if instant liquidity is required the transaction may have to be carried out at unfavourable prices , and so units should be thought of as long term investments with a deposit account held at a bank or building society for liquid funds . |
| 24 | Although we will go on to think about what is commonly thought of as spiritual healing in a later section of this book , true healing is all around us . |
| 25 | She did n't ask me what my prospects were , or how much I earned , or whether I was sleeping with her daughter — all of which I had thought of as possible avenues of conversation . |
| 26 | They were younger than she had expected and seemed shy and reticent , emphasising frequently , all the way up the stairs , that they wanted only a bolt-hole and must not be thought of as real boarders . |
| 27 | It does not suit professional courses , such as those in medicine , law , engineering or business studies which can be thought of as composite subjects , and which therefore tend to have few external ancillary courses . |
| 28 | At first , the differences between the two accounts may be disturbing , especially if the accounts are thought of as simple historical records of the birth of Jesus . |
| 29 | The adverbs here and there are often thought of as simple contrasts on a proximal/distal dimension , stretching away from the speaker 's location , as in : ( 72 ) Bring that here and take this there But this is only sometimes so , for although there basically means " distal from speaker 's location at CT " , it can also be used to mean " proximal to addressee at RT " . |
| 30 | Norms can be thought of as unwritten rules . |