Example sentences of "[verb] their [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have honed their skills as developers and operators in privatisations elsewhere . |
| 2 | In writing it , Access Unit staff maintained their roles as neutral recorders of student experience and made no comments or recommendations — though these can be provided . |
| 3 | Democratic rule can only become a reality when African people place their interests as individuals and communities before kinship bonds . |
| 4 | In every case the cancer sufferer seemed to accept their role as victim , to be acquiescent and quite unable to take action . |
| 5 | Resolutions 3 , 4 and 4a propose their re-appointment as Directors . |
| 6 | At the Annual General Meeting Mr Donovan , Mr Kalms and Baroness Platt of Writtle will retire by rotation and Resolutions 5 , 6 and 7 propose their re-appointment as Directors . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , it 's very primitive , ’ she apologised , and described their scullery as if it had been converted . |
| 8 | Twenty six ( 46% ) of the 56 respondents described their pain as a minor nuisance , 23 ( 41% ) as moderately severe , and six ( 11% ) as interfering with their activities . |
| 9 | The judge described their crimes as a campaign of economic sabotage . |
| 10 | John Lambie declined to comment ; his assistant , Gerry Collins , described their team as ‘ a shambles ’ . |
| 11 | But , as time wore on , and the whites of our eyes were still clearly visible , the girls , without missing a beat , subtly modified their glances as if to convey : " God knows we 've tried , you heartless bastards . " |
| 12 | Shortly before this development , three magistrates who had been seconded to assist Sica had been withdrawn on the grounds that they were working too closely with the police , thereby prejudicing their independence as magistrates . |
| 13 | Repealers were particularly intolerant of unreformed and unrepentant women , adopting a punitive attitude towards them and explaining their resistance as a product of the demoralizing effects of forced medical inspection . |
| 14 | In 1953 , start-up costs were still low , and the partners were able to begin business on a capital of less than $25000 , from a tiny office , employing their wives as secretaries . |
| 15 | " Most people have an affection for trees and think they 're beautiful and necessary to the landscape and so on , but it 's important that we also realise their value as a national asset . |
| 16 | In the photograph that the studio had acquired the four men brought to trial in Detroit look out at us almost belligerently announcing their status as ordinary guys ; they wear poor suits and no ties , they are unshaven , and they clutch their hats . |
| 17 | Tranmere Rovers .... 3 Leyton Orient ...... 0 TRANMERE ROVERS , who in recent years have survived a threat of extinction as well as only just preserving League membership , reinforced their position as Third Division leaders by overcoming Leyton Orient , thereby stretching the margin to four points . |
| 18 | SCOTVEC aims to certificate students as soon as possible after the completion of the programme of modules because students may need their certificates as evidence when applying for jobs or for another college . |
| 19 | Other women mentioned their fathers as direct influences ; for example : |
| 20 | They also regarded their influence as a finite resource to be husbanded , used on major issues , and not frittered away on minor skirmishes or issues on which they were likely to be in a minority in Cabinet . |
| 21 | In section 4.2.2 we concentrate on their role as buyers and holders of marketable securities ; in section 4.2.3 we shall consider their role as suppliers of ‘ credit ’ as opposed to ‘ money ’ and therefore their impact on velocity and money supply . |
| 22 | By apparently offering parents a greater choice of schools , these provisions — as indeed those establishing grant-maintained schools — seek to increase their power as ‘ consumers ’ . |
| 23 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 24 | Well the men considered their stock as their own then . |
| 25 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 26 | But there was a very small group who acknowledged that their unspoken anger was so powerful , they used their tears as a revenge , knowing that their husbands hated tears and knowing that weeping they could discomfort them . |
| 27 | One old couple who were village publicans used their house as a shelter for ‘ a very composite family ’ which included a daughter who did the pub cooking , a brother , and a son who used two rooms as his tailor 's shop . |
| 28 | Dealers used their clients as guinea-pigs for their untried techniques . |
| 29 | Another new technique was ‘ head tennis ’ , in which equal sides of six or seven players used their heads as racquets . |
| 30 | Parents may understandably often try to deny the reality of their black children 's unhappiness because they like to think that their children are secure and happy , thus reflecting their success as adopters . |