Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 2 | We like to see ourselves as born mavericks and fixers . |
| 3 | who saw himself as bringing ethics down to earth , called his view a form of ethical naturalism . |
| 4 | But that had been in the immediacy of action and as much to save himself as to save Gomez . |
| 5 | Some of the near contemporary songs which have survived from the period describe Rodrigo himself as capturing Garcia and handing him over to the brothers . |
| 6 | In his perception of the horror of fertility cycle and sexuality , Eliot saw himself as following Baudelaire . |
| 7 | This murderer sees himself as doing God 's work . |
| 8 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 9 | But does he see himself as becoming part of the theatrical establishment in his middle-age ? |
| 10 | For others to regard you as having status , you have to be able to communicate it . |
| 11 | The Commission sees itself as motivating authorities to make improvements by helping them to help themselves . |
| 12 | If we are going to deliver to the people to whom we as elected members owe the highest duty , that 's the people who are in receipt of our services the sort of quality service that we , that they deserve then I have to say that we can have as many reports of this nature as we like , but you have got to acknowledge the need to change and you have got to stop resenting the rights of parents and governors to run schools , you 've got to stop being obstructive to competitive tendering and you have got to stop arguing for the retention of services where it 's patently obvious that there 's over provision . |
| 13 | Er the fact of the matter is , it 's the system that we as housing associations gon na have to live with er if if we 're going to build new homes . |
| 14 | She did n't , but something about the way she moved confirmed my suspicion that she saw herself as damaged goods . |
| 15 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 16 | Even the author appears undecided as to whether to present herself as blockbusting siren or scrubbed worthy . |
| 17 | She had never liked Mona Rigby — who would n't have been chosen twice for the coveted role if the staff had known as much about her as did Brenda — and she was n't sure that she really liked Miss Foley . |
| 18 | Sometimes Marcus thought of him as wearing glasses and sometimes he seemed to remember the man 's face naked . |
| 19 | ‘ The potential cost to Woolwich of refusing to pay in terms of damage to reputation and interest liabilities may have been commercially unacceptable but I can not regard it as involving duress on the part of the revenue . |
| 20 | His marriage was treated very briefly ; he recorded it as taking place in 1934 , and the bride as being ‘ at that time newly arrived from New Zealand and as a writer considered highly promising — alas , of how many has this been said ! ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps so , but the great economist also saw it as confirming evidence of improving real wages . |
| 22 | Schibsbye ( 1965 : 24 ) suggests on the other hand that " the infinitive with and without to corresponds in the main to the two sides of the infinitive , the nominal and the verbal " : the infinitive with to is found in positions similar to those in which one finds substantives , adjectives and adverbs , while the infinitive without to " is generally closely connected with an auxiliary verb , and forms a single unit with it as regards stress and intonation " . |
| 23 | Alternatively , the designer may commence working in " free-space " and later declare it as having fu |
| 24 | Although conservatives argued that visiting the shrine — particularly on Aug. 15 , the anniversary of the ending of the Pacific War — was a legitimate means of paying respect to the dead , others interpreted it as paying homage to an outdated militarist philosophy and its discredited adherents . |
| 25 | ‘ Morally I see it as strengthening people 's faith , ’ he told me . |
| 26 | This is timber stolen from Indian lands and rainforests … we 're removing it because we regard it as stolen property |
| 27 | The press interpreted it as encroaching lunacy . |
| 28 | ‘ But by the time I was eighteen , I realised that , as much as I loved studying the past , my greatest joy came from — well , I suppose you 'd describe it as planning things and watching them grow . ’ |
| 29 | you could write it as gives H two O plus H two O. |
| 30 | ( One may well hold that such mere consciousness is an impossibility , but Moore treats it as making sense . ) |