Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Puritans like Harley and Dowsing regarded altars , statues , paintings , and stained glass not as aids to religious devotion , but as positive dangers to men 's souls , and they reacted to them rather as a modern-day Jew might do to a beautifully sculpted or painted swastika . |
| 2 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 3 | History has brought them together as a phenomenon without compare , and it is Pakistan 's good fortune that they are surviving fitness scares long enough to bring many honours to their country . |
| 4 | If they are smaller , staple them together as a pad for rough calculations . |
| 5 | They are given a time , but they never do , if you er , there 's no way you 're gon na get them together as a group for that time |
| 6 | Their words came to me only as a series of hoarse gasping noises . |
| 7 | These styles are still sufficiently popular to survive , although any attempted ‘ re-fit ’ would be likely to sweep them away as a matter of principle . |
| 8 | They are , however , making use of a tool to help them just as a botanist might use a magnifying glass . |
| 9 | The Doctor flung himself down beside them just as a final blast scattered small chips and stone fragments over them . |
| 10 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 11 | My word and me just as a little boy of eight years . |
| 12 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
| 13 | ‘ I see you more as a sailboat , skimming freely across the ocean , responding naturally to the winds and the currents — but with a light hand on the tiller now and then to make sure you make the most of your capabilities . ’ |
| 14 | Fr from that time can you recall any incidents which er your father may have mentioned to you even as a young boy ? |
| 15 | Think back to all the stories that affected you strongly as a child . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you there as a doctor ? ’ |
| 17 | He does this deliberately to show that you too as a Christian will hit the floor . |
| 18 | It receives them automatically as a member of the European Broadcasting Union , a privilege granted to it because 15 member stations of that cosy cartel own the half of Eurosport which Murdoch does not . |
| 19 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 20 | We personally as a family have been utterly ruined . |
| 21 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 22 | I would say just two things ; the one on the rates scheme , we certainly as a health committee distribute fifteen thousand pounds a year and treat these as important pledge by work . |
| 23 | But is such a structure of opposing factors really an objective property of poetry , and can we therefore as a matter of principle allow our interpretation and evaluation to be guided by it ? |
| 24 | It does strike me though as a that A that one of the basic points is that if this is going in as structure plan guidance then we have to be satisfied that these are in fact criteria which can operate at the strategic level . |
| 25 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | But , secondly , it seems to me plain as a pikestaff that the building society , in parting with its money , relied on the transfer . |
| 27 | I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and . |
| 28 | Contemporary feminist writers have seen her rather as a demonstration of the extreme body hatred and guilt that a patriarchal religion lays upon women . |
| 29 | They know him only as a highly efficient and exacting captain . |
| 30 | He was a hero to the people who saw him only as a little waif , when actually he was a pudding of hatred . ’ |