Example sentences of "[verb] to us as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is , perhaps , one crucial objection to the constructivist 's claim that moving the focus away from mental representations and towards mental actions will make the mind-body problem appear to us as less of a problem . |
| 2 | The longer wavelengths reflected by , for example , the leaves of trees in autumn , appear to us as reds and oranges , while the shorter wavelengths which reach our eyes from the ocean we see as greens and blues . |
| 3 | They then appear to us as what a classical physicist would call waves , such as waves of light or gravitational waves . |
| 4 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 5 | A senior Special Branch officer said last night : ‘ It looks to us as if one person kept replaying the conversation to ham operators . |
| 6 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 7 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 8 | Haunted by the fear that perhaps man is not the superior species , we seek salvation and find it because the animal kingdom is presented to us as a world of such wonder and magical beauty that we can believe in God 's kingdom and therefore our divine right to rule . |
| 9 | To act on the public sector will mean that part of the bill ( that is , that part not paid for by improved productivity ) will be presented to us as taxpayers . |
| 10 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 11 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 12 | It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease . |
| 13 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 14 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 15 | The Creator is revealed to us as a rational , moral , feeling person , capable of making choices . |
| 16 | For example on the building that we 're talking about shifting , first of all we 've got to find a site for the thing , then we 've got to get planning permission , then we 've got to get the actual permission of the owner of the land , then we 've got to make sure that erm electricity 's laid on , that there 's water laid on , that there 's some sort of toilet or other facilities and so on , and when you add all that up it 's quite a complicated sort of series of bureaucratic procedures you 've got to go through and it 's not a question of , you know , of people saying to us as Councillors well , you know , do this for us and we can magic it out in six months out of thin air _ there 's an awful lot of paperwork that 's got to be gone through and an awful lot of people to see and an awful lot of red tape , really , to get through first — I mean just to make sure that the thing 's safe and complies with health and safety standards — and that 's something which you have to get across to young people and if they 're involved in the actual discussions on this and involved in the organisation , they begin to see the complexities and they 're less inclined , I think , to automatically assume that erm people are n't on their side and do n't want to listen . |
| 17 | At some places the peaks rise above water — for example as the Azores ; known to us as islands . |
| 18 | The stars turned out to pay tribute to Fred Scuttle — better known to us as … ? |
| 19 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 20 | The instincts are known to us as impulses , wishes or desires which seek direct satisfaction , unless they are totally repressed . |
| 21 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 22 | The latest is an army officer known to us as Pogo . |
| 23 | They could er er er because thi it this would be a birthrate problem not known to us as boys and I along with seven or eight others , were taken to the standard four to start , after the holidays , which was in August . |
| 24 | The fruits of our labours have resulted in us now being the proud builders of our very own MW6 microlight aircraft : GMYGE : known to us as ‘ midge ’ . |
| 25 | Well Lamarckism is named after er , Jean Baptiste Antoine de Monet , better known to us as Lamarck , and the , the prime notion of Lamarckism , according in Darwin , let's try and get that over there a bit more is evolution by will . |
| 26 | W what I go for are two major points I think which actually demonstrate the fallaciousness of this budget that has been proposed to us as an amendment . |
| 27 | It seems probable that the high metabolic rate of such diminutive creatures is a reflection of what appears to us as a high-speed mental appreciation of events . |
| 28 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's apparently coming to us as a replacement for poor old Eddy . ’ |
| 30 | It belongs to us as individuals regardless of the power of the State or the claims of the State . |