Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd like to see them remain as houses . |
| 2 | We as a group , defining ourselves as human , decide whom to include and whom to exclude as members of this group . |
| 3 | The popular press had laid the blame for the evolution of the larger lout squarely at their feet ; pushing nablabs would allow them to appear as capitalists with a social conscience . |
| 4 | This made me even more of a social outcast since most of the other girls already regarded my disability , my lack of money , my accent and the council estate on which I lived as reasons to ignore me . |
| 5 | As usual , the ‘ antiques ’ in the kitchen were things Bob & I used as children . |
| 6 | Jack 's agent was already well ensconced at a table with half a dozen people , a couple of whom I recognised as regulars on the pro-am circuit . |
| 7 | And er , we 'll be a part , I know as councillors , Labour councillors we are caught in a trap because due the financial constraint that the government has placed upon us there is very little we could do but , oh I 'll get I I er crumbs of comfort from the speculators who may decide to give us a few social housing . |
| 8 | that you can buy here you can actually get it in Harrods as well , and I use as breadcrumbs . |
| 9 | Yes , I think as adults one thing we have to do is actually trust the wisdom of our children to let us know , to give us the cues to when they need to talk or express their fears in some way erm I mean that 's our duty not to stop them talking , not to stop them asking questions , but to be aware of when they may have fears . |
| 10 | I think as chemists we would be glad to see more and more women come into the subject . |
| 11 | I think as jobs come back , jobs will be found as the economy as a whole picks up . |
| 12 | I have two Clownfish , which I bought as juveniles of a similar size . |
| 13 | In the end I could n't get rid of them , I had two days off when I was ill and I had as holidays to ge to get them sort of settled up you know . |
| 14 | Not that I know all that many people anyway , I suppose ; Jamie is my only real friend , though through him I have met a few people of about my own age I regard as acquaintances . |
| 15 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 16 | In addition there are smaller groups of minority elders , some of whom came as refugees from East Europe , Kenya or Vietnam . |
| 17 | J. L. Pearson avoided this arrangement at St Peter 's by confining the two-storey teaching accommodation to the perimeter of the wedge-shaped site at the rear of his church , the central ‘ spine ’ of the plan linking the blocks on the east and west site boundaries to create two largely internal courtyards which operated as children 's playgrounds ( Fig 53 ) . |
| 18 | Sanderson Townend & Gilbert has let 113/115 Linthorpe Road , Middlesbrough , to Catchlord which trades as Barnacles . |
| 19 | There , it can be shown that it is impossible to understand the plans of present-day villages without reference to the abandoned roads and former areas of farms and cottages which remain as earthworks . |
| 20 | Then you have to divide them up into those which make slender trees and others which remain as bushes with a fountain-like outline . |
| 21 | So , he asserts , are other rather less extreme examples , including the following , all of which appear as instances of English in books by reputable grammarians : |
| 22 | Ribosomes are arranged in small groups called polysomes which appear as granules . |
| 23 | Despite his disappointments he starred for the South African side which played as Springboks against the Juniors late last season . |
| 24 | The Milton multiband radiometer is a non-intrusive device which uses as sensors three silicon photodiodes and one cadmium-sulphide cell . |
| 25 | Sodium and potassium are two similar minerals which act as opposites in the body . |
| 26 | The researchers did find that volcanic eruptions encourage the destruction of stratospheric ozone by providing a profusion of aerosol particles , which act as catalysts for the reactions that destroy ozone . |
| 27 | Geographical interest in river basins stems largely from the fact that a large proportion of the world 's population lives close to rivers , which act as sources of water supply for human consumption and for agricultural and industrial use . |
| 28 | The most important example and one easily overlooked is the symbiotic relationship of the stony corals which act as hosts to microscopic algae living within their tissues . |
| 29 | Cesspools are simply lined holes in the ground which act as reservoirs for sewage until they are emptied by the local authority . |
| 30 | Some proteins , like collagen in tendons , are long and thin and have rope-like properties ; others which act as enzymes fold into complex shapes which enable them to bind to other molecules . |