Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , indeed , impressive reasons for characterising it as such , but only the most committed proponent of this view would wish to deny that the defence effort and the scientific-technological base on which it rests can be entirely insulated from the problems we have surveyed here . |
| 2 | She could almost feel the internal battle raging within her , and for a long moment could do nothing but gaze at the stage , torn between seeing it as a hostile no-man's-land and home . |
| 3 | For example , , , are unaspirated while , , in syllable-initial position are usually aspirated ; but in , , we find an unaspirated plosive — there could be a strong argument for transcribing them as , , . |
| 4 | The bodies given the task of recovering some of the lost money , most notably the Resolution Trust Corporation and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation , made it clear more than a year ago that the thrifts ' auditors and advisers would be first in the firing line leading many accountants to accuse the government of targeting them as ‘ deep pockets ’ . |
| 5 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 6 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 7 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 8 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
| 9 | Although there are problems in directly transferring Belbin 's analysis into educational institutions there does appear to be the basis of using it as a means of managing the issues identified at the start of this section . |
| 10 | Perhaps the best result of the current fascination with ‘ world music ’ is that , after decades of using it as a fashion accessory or status symbol , people have actually begun to listen to music again . |
| 11 | The possibility of using it as a bypass to the village was discussed with the Ministry of Defence in 1985 . |
| 12 | The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned . |
| 13 | Whole-tone harmony is part of many harmonic systems , is valuable in many circumstances , and is therefore worth a brief study by all composers , even if they have no intention of using it as a complete system themselves . |
| 14 | But when you have a community centre like street that is which a joint you can see the value of of of maintaining it as a a paid for as a a a erm and be substantial volunteer input that exists . |
| 15 | Yet in some areas still , their skills are not appreciated ; they can be seen as trouble-makers who regard doctor as fellow colleagues instead of seeing them as bosses who are there to give orders . |
| 16 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 17 | But even if we allow that this can be a beneficial experience , we must question the wisdom of seeing it as the only valid way in which reading can be learned . |
| 18 | Clare 's newfound , short-term leisure meant that she now enjoyed cooking instead of seeing it as an added , rushed , three-times-a-day chore to fit in around earning her living . |
| 19 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 20 | None the less , there was a substantial majority in favour of accepting it as a basis for discussion , largely because there was much to be said about the interrelationship of pope , bishops and curia , and the draft provided this opportunity . |
| 21 | He said it was a matter of accepting it as a capital project but he would see that Coun Jackson received the information he had requested . |
| 22 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
| 23 | It is revealing in how clear f was and yet I managed to stop short of naming it as racism . |
| 24 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 25 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 26 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 27 | It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise . |
| 28 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 29 | They have put forward their nine-year coach Laurie Mains , and are winding themselves up to the point of wanting him as coach , first-up . |
| 30 | Arnold , at one time headmaster of Eastbourne College , purchased a number of sites with the expressed intention of improving them as bird habitats . |