Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 2 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 3 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 4 | In time , however , learners and trained staff welcome the opportunity to see themselves as others see them , and endeavour to improve their skills . |
| 5 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 6 | I believe that it was , or had some connection with , a species of agoraphobia , which in his case manifested itself as an acute fear of heights . |
| 7 | Something tells me he wo n't pass up this opportunity to establish himself as an international . |
| 8 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 9 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 10 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 11 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 12 | ‘ When a dealing is had between a seller like Mr. Lewis and a person who is actually there present before him , then the presumption in law is that there is a contract , even though there is a fraudulent impersonation by the buyer representing himself as a different man than he is . |
| 13 | Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order . |
| 14 | But that Monday 's Panorama programme revealed it as a piece of lunacy under definite consideration . |
| 15 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 16 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 17 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 18 | He held her face between his two hands and his glance penetrated her as if to see into her soul as he asked , ‘ Are you seeing any of those actors ? |
| 19 | At first the club treated it as a private matter and The Doc shook hands on a new four year contract . |
| 20 | So , so possibly that ough ought to say , the their agent described it as |
| 21 | This is not to say that everyone could name the book ( one chief adviser described it as ‘ the shiny red book which the drama adviser insisted I read ’ ) , nor in some instances was its actual existence known although its influence could be recognized . |
| 22 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 23 | A defence lawyer described it as ‘ a very tragic case ’ . |
| 24 | No wonder , then , that the poet described himself as ‘ a wanderer ’ , supporting the literal sense of the next poem 's conclusion . |
| 25 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 26 | ‘ Though I know the Princesse loves you as if you were her own child . |
| 27 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 28 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 29 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 30 | According to one study , published in 1971 , only 5 per cent of career foreign service officers in the State Department regarded themselves as Republicans . |