Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adele obviously uses it as some kind of defence . |
| 2 | In the situations where the actor does not desire the result , but merely sees it as a foreseeable outcome of his conduct , the House of Lords has said that there is merely evidence from which the tribunal of fact can infer that he intends . |
| 3 | He … he only sees me as a … a dear friend . |
| 4 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
| 5 | They need to be educated properly , and society desperately needs them as educated members . |
| 6 | Of course , the terrible irony of this is shown later , when Eddie betrays his cousins and the truth of his own words is applied as he ruins his life and finally loses it as a result of being disloyal . |
| 7 | Money , which in ‘ normal times ’ represented a value in itself , finally reveals itself as an intermediary symbol , without any independent value . |
| 8 | On hotel bills , they do n't , but usually they put it , including local tax , or something like , they always use to show it separately at one time , it 's a percentage , but now , very often your bill just shows it as a , including local tax . |
| 9 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 10 | As Dick comes to know Count Jasper he no longer sees him as a villain and realises that this inscrutable man is in his own way working for the same ends as the conspirators . |
| 11 | An alternative theory , and one which , if true , must sadden him , is that China no longer regards him as a threat . |
| 12 | Of course , I 'm never really shocked — being ladylike at work just strikes me as a valuable power tool . ’ |
| 13 | But if a silvery , bulging-bellied stickleback stays he soon recognizes it as a female , and changes from attack to courtship . |
| 14 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 15 | ‘ I would like to think that Sparky still has it as his major ambition to play here and not for any other club . ’ |
| 16 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 17 | The world still sees me as a nasty kid |
| 18 | Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds . |
| 19 | The tape was made collectively , and Siobhan still sees herself as part of an alternative to the mainstream . |
| 20 | But he always leaves it as if he is n't expecting to come back in the morning . " |
| 21 | But as Hurst has emphasised ( 1976 , pp. 292 ) such pottery ‘ presents a serious problem ’ for it is often so fragmentary or ‘ unstratified ’ , so as to make study difficult ; he also describes them as ‘ cooking-pots ’ . |
| 22 | The service has proved willing to invest in Skymaster , even though the ‘ returns ’ are low at the moment , and clearly sees it as a thing of the future . |
| 23 | ‘ Probably sees you as a bit of a traitor . |
| 24 | The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher , however , has remained a mobilizer ; she clearly regards herself as Heath plus , providing greater political will and persistence . |
| 26 | He repeatedly expresses himself as awestruck by nature and by the contemplation of truth , and as having a , a desire to worship something outside himself . |
| 27 | If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers . |
| 28 | As in woman-centred feminism generally , woman-centred psychology often defends itself as an effective , rather than a theoretically rigorous , means of resistance , and makes theory a utilitarian adjunct to this aim . |
| 29 | He was engaged in trading abroad , in cloth and books , and by 1650 was an important member of the community associated with the London Dutch church ; he was also a friend of Samuel Hartlib [ q.v. ] , who often describes him as an ‘ informant ’ . |
| 30 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |