Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This model has been contrasted with the clinical model by referring to the difference between them as the difference between a travel companion ( clinical ) and a travel agent ( administrative ) . |
| 2 | People thus switch between them as the balance of advantage changes . |
| 3 | ‘ Just think of me as the Ghost of Cameron Yet to Come … ’ |
| 4 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 5 | And if I speak a bit plain … just think of me as the woman who gave up everything to save you girls from their worst dangers Dear sisters there is not one of us ladies … who wo n't tell you that we have learnt our most precious lessons of faith … and patience , and self-sacrifice and contentedness under trials from you . |
| 6 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 7 | But although it was Tip 's and Arnold 's maiden success , it does not rate as highly with either of them as the victory at Troon the following year . |
| 8 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |
| 9 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 10 | Given that the men in our sample spend an average of more than 43 hours a week at work ( ie half their waking life ) , it 's hardly surprising that job satisfaction is the one factor mentioned by more than half of them as the most important thing in their lives ( see table , opposite page ) . |
| 11 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 12 | Herakleides goes on to speak of them as the king 's ‘ fellow-diners ’ . |
| 13 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 14 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 15 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 16 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 17 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 18 | Do you know , when you were little , darling , I used to think of you as the family barometer . |
| 19 | One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production . |
| 20 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 21 | Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry . |
| 22 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 23 | He thought of her as the child , though she was married and a mother . |
| 24 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 25 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 26 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 27 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 28 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 29 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 30 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |