Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ I think Esther Rantzen does a tremendous amount of good work , but she is a media star and I would hope that she will realise that people accept what she says as gospel truth . |
| 2 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 3 | Until , encouraged to repeat the achievement , she chooses as subject : My Town in the Third Reich . |
| 4 | Maternity leave does not break one 's period of continuous employment and indeed it counts as part of that period . |
| 5 | which it drops as mud . |
| 6 | In the human entity it manifests as consciousness reaching in its highest expression towards wisdom and enlightenment . |
| 7 | He dwells on the dilemma that he inherited along with his love for this man that he questions as sympathy . |
| 8 | I would like to know what else he wants as part of this deal ie : does he want to cut exam fees ? |
| 9 | They all want to be so he went off to be a computer scientist and either he was too interested in er what he describes as cult television which you think |
| 10 | Much of it occurs as plantation forestry , the prime objective of which is to produce wood and wood products . |
| 11 | The president of the United States is not free to appoint whoever he chooses as secretary of state or secretary of the treasury or as director of the C I A or director of the F B I or the secretary of defence or the justice of the supreme court or ambassador to London or anybody else except by and with the consent of the senate . |
| 12 | He acts as chaplain to the students . |
| 13 | In furtherance of these aims he acts as Chair of the Modular Admissions Committee ( MAC ) and Careers Liaison Group and Stage I Examinations Committee . |
| 14 | He succeeds as club the Irish captain Phil Danaher . |
| 15 | One useful strategy in language learning is generalisation , but it is most noticeable when it exists as over-generalisation . |
| 16 | This it sees as evidence of the shop-floor pressures for greater industrial democracy . |
| 17 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |
| 18 | It issues notes ; it acts as banker to the government , to the commercial banks , to various overseas central banks and to certain private customers ; it manages the government 's borrowing programme ; it supervises the activities of banks and other financial institutions ; it provides support to prevent banks getting into difficulties ; it operates the government 's monetary and exchange rate policy . |
| 19 | The citation mentions that the trust and respect that SPECS has in the industrial and academic communities in which it acts as intermediary in the supply of new and unusual chemicals . |
| 20 | In principle , any security dealer that is a member of the Stock Exchange can trade in government securities ; but the market is subject to the powerful influence of the Bank of England and the latter has chosen to offer a package of rights and responsibilities to those whom it recognises as market makers in government securities , i.e. the GEMMs . |
| 21 | The government is now moving ahead with several new infrastructure projects , which it cites as evidence of its own — and China 's — commitment to the enclave . |
| 22 | Unreconstructed premodernists regard the hover as effete and arriviste , citing the quasi-male purposeful movement of the cylinder mower and the pictorial geometries it creates as proof of its superiority . |
| 23 | Its functions can be divided into those which are required by its role as banker to the government and those which it performs as banker to the banks . |
| 24 | These he distinguishes as signifié and valeur respectively . |
| 25 | There is not , as we might have expected , a simple decline in how well it remembers as time passes . |
| 26 | " A critic is entitled to dip his pen in gall for the purpose of legitimate criticism : and no one need by mealy-mouthed in denouncing what he regards as twaddle , daub or discord " . |
| 27 | Water from different places varies because when it falls as rain , it comes into contact with different gases in the atmosphere and eventually different vegetation , soil and rocks . |
| 28 | He tricks young girls into having sexual intercourse with him , and he steals children whom he gives as food to his dogs . |
| 29 | Secondly , it serves as proof that housework is work : the spelling out of these rules to be followed places housework in the same category as other work — there are things that simply have to be done . |
| 30 | Yet for psychological insight and acute comment it is not easy to match the way Marryat , in Percival Keene , states and develops the situation of an illegitimate boy steadily and tenaciously working out how to persuade his noble father , under whom he serves as midshipman and later as lieutenant , to acknowledge him openly and alter his reserved , cold but unmistakably responsible behaviour towards his son . |