Example sentences of "[adj] [vb base] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker . |
| 2 | Both the Germans and the French claim him as a hero , and in this sense the Emperor becomes more than a mortal ruler . |
| 3 | Headteachers will soon discover that , among their Danish counterparts , ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 4 | Teachers will wonder how they got on without detailed ‘ programmes of study ’ , ‘ Standard Assessment Tasks ’ , etc , and ‘ curriculum managers ’ , like Danish heads , will perhaps be able to take a more relaxed line on managing the curriculum : ‘ Some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ . |
| 5 | Thus when the HMI team says of Danish heads that ‘ some see themselves as curriculum leaders , others do not ’ , they are in reality applying a British idea to a situation which it does not altogether fit . |
| 6 | What to do — of anything — about the Italian Connection is a problem that has long perplexed the top administrators : some see it as a cancer at the heart of rugby ; others as a storm in a teacup of no consequence to what they see as larger and more insidious threat to amateurism in England and the rest of the ‘ Big Eight ’ . |
| 7 | Some see it as the perfect exercise for keeping fit ; others train purely for self-defence purposes . |
| 8 | All accounts of Six describe him as a competent yet modest and unassuming man of great integrity , and a devout Christian . |
| 9 | We use evidence as a weapon in an argument , the Japanese use it as an element in a construction . |
| 10 | Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ . |
| 11 | These manifest themselves as the impulsive gravitational waves ( 15.10 ) which may be considered to be generated by the collision . |
| 12 | Those in the centre and on the Right regard him as a pragmatist ; those on the Left see him as a right-winger . |
| 13 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 14 | But my friends all know me as Buck . ’ |
| 15 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
| 16 | But they all know you as John Russell who owns the Russell place . |
| 17 | They all remember it as a worrying time . |
| 18 | The revolutionary , apparently irregular and discordant sprung rhythm in which it was written , the vivid , kinetic , but often difficult diction , the perception of the universality of suffering : all mark it as one of the greatest and most experimental of nineteenth-century poems . |
| 19 | And ‘ first ’ is a word that suits them , for many recognise them as the finest original instrument group among baroque performers of the present day . |
| 20 | Within Anglo-Jewish society , many regard them as a sort of cult — like Moonies or Scientologists — desperately trying to win converts . |
| 21 | Scotland does not have national parks at the moment , and many see them as a nasty English invention . |
| 22 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 23 | It will only happen if we all treat it as a priority . |
| 24 | Whereas we treat human excreta as something to be neutralized with chemicals and politely disposed of , the Chinese see it as one more resource . |