Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horace Walpole described her as having a ‘ paltry air of significant learning and absurdity ’ , and added that she was so totally lacking in humour that ‘ she repined when she should laugh and reasoned when she should be diverted ’ . |
| 2 | You can never describe her as having a particular image . |
| 3 | ‘ Old bass-voiced Ethel Walker , ’ Woolf called her and described her as having a ‘ rough-raddled charm , the result of living a regular herring grillers life ’ . |
| 4 | I wonder if this fundamentally unimportant fact will linger as long in any mention of her as did the pillorying of Anthony Burgess as ‘ The Man Who Reviewed His Own Book ’ some 30 years ago . |
| 5 | But she was not uncritical of tutors and students who were perceived by her as failing the wider aims of the WEA . |
| 6 | Merton ( 1938 ) , for example , does not conclude his exposition of anomie theory by proposing a solution ( though he gives enough away elsewhere for Taylor , Walton and Young , 1973 , to see him as favouring a ‘ meritocratic ’ solution ) . |
| 7 | Although John was generally a quick worker , Anne Heaton remembers him as taking a long time over this work and seeming nervous about it . |
| 8 | ‘ We have no intention of interfering in government , ’ Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as telling a visiting Thai princess . |
| 9 | He threw himself almost sideways through the gap , rolling across the ground as much to put out the fire that was burning him as to lessen the momentum of the fall . |
| 10 | Although I rated Mr Smith quite high in terms of integrity , I did not regard him as having a superior intellect and throughout the negotiations with which I was concerned he remained blinded by a prejudiced belief that the only rule in Rhodesia which was tolerable or possible was white rule . |
| 11 | Brooke met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , on May 31 amid a public controversy over the disclosure on May 30 that the Unionist parties had rejected Lord Carrington , a former UK Foreign Secretary , as a possible chair of the second phase of talks , describing him as having a " deplorable " record on Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | An Army report once described him as having no regard for human life . |
| 13 | Asked why Hulme , with an open goal before him , did not move up further to be certain of his target before shooting , he answered that the man on the field did not have as clear a view of the situation around him as did the spectator and was not always aware of how much time he had for his moves . |
| 14 | Ten years earlier a cartoon by David Low had depicted him as rejecting an appeal for advice by Austen Chamberlain ( soon to reappear on the stage of Baldwin 's life ) and saying , ‘ But you are Foreign Secretary . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ That were Bill Oldenshaw , him as has the farm over by Stones Place . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 17 | Instead we can see it as completing the specification of which operation is to be performed . |
| 18 | Arab states including Algeria , Jordan , Sudan , Syria and Yemen strongly condemned the plan , regarding it as setting a dangerous precedent in the region and also as signalling the effective three-way partitioning of Iraq into Kurdish , Sunni and Shia blocs . |
| 19 | It is therefore in my view taking too much out of this case to read it as supporting the broad proposition that payment in response to an unlawful demand by an official is ipso facto recoverable . |
| 20 | Grammar , perfectly understood , enables us , not only to express our meaning fully and clearly , but so to express it as to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express . |
| 21 | This is the simplest component of legal aid , but alterations and adjustments to it make it best to think of it as encompassing a number of different types of help . |
| 22 | If that was the discovery Francis had made and mentioned in his diary it might have caused him distress but it was hard to see it as providing a motive for his murder . |
| 23 | B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question . |
| 24 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 25 | Ministers hailed it as pointing the way forward . |
| 26 | We can quote one as saying ‘ We see it as giving a distinctive edge to our marketing image amongst a predominantly business clientele . ’ |
| 27 | They also see it as giving the Irish government a status to negotiate with the British government on their behalf . |
| 28 | Relations of CAP leaders and regular local government officials were often difficult , and critics saw it as giving an open invitation to agitators . |
| 29 | Others saw it as marking a shift in US perceptions of the OAS and a readiness to see it perform a new role in encouraging the closer economic and political integration of the hemisphere , in line with the US " Enterprise for the Americas " free trade policy [ see pp. 37651-52 ; 37914 ] . |
| 30 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |