Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We could take them home and sell them as pets . |
| 2 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 3 | Beyond this it 's a handbook of fake advice , both social ( LIGHT : Always say Fiat lux ! when lighting a candle ) and aesthetic ( RAILWAY STATIONS : Always go into ecstasies about them ; cite them as models of architecture ) . |
| 4 | Many organisations , as I 'm sure you are aware , buy computer or receive them as gifts , but they do n't make full use of them because of the lack of money for the necessary training and consultancy . |
| 5 | Company records show them as Co-directors of the company which has no other em ployees . |
| 6 | I picture them as neurons , part of a great mass mind . |
| 7 | A member reported that a circular had been issued by Mr Constable , a leading employer , " to boarding schools etc. , intimating his willingness to receive young men and women and educate them as compositors " . |
| 8 | If we describe ourselves as advocates of animal rights , therefore , it is quite different from saying that we rest our case with anti-cruelty or pro-welfare . |
| 9 | These have far-reaching implications , especially for the strategies and styles adopted by advisory staff and heads , and for the ways class teachers view themselves as professionals . |
| 10 | Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate , their crimes political . |
| 11 | In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places . |
| 12 | Do women who describe themselves as housewives really resent/disapprove of/despise mothers who go out to work ? |
| 13 | And apologists for Labour 's refusal to organise in Northern Ireland can not in all conscience describe themselves as democrats . |
| 14 | I like guitars , I think they 're beautiful things , and that 's what I do — I play guitar and therefore I like them as objects . |
| 15 | I analyse the various types of experiential modalities , and in particular the manner in which objects are targeted , and present themselves as objects to our evidential consciousness . |
| 16 | At this stage perhaps I can emphasize Jan this is such a flexible concept that er we are anxious not to lay down any rigid rules as to how it works because if some things do n't work very well , they can be altered and if some things do prove to work well like the event we had at Felixstowe we can build on that success so quite consciously we 're not laying down any rigid rules as to how things go and we will look to review how officers we , we erm advise you as members in the light of practical experience . |
| 17 | We assist him in this task and some might , because of that , categorise us as musicians . ’ |
| 18 | They simply keep them as hostages . |
| 19 | use them as leggings , leggings with a hole in , that 's a good idea |
| 20 | Lovers use them as secrets to reveal . |
| 21 | We use them as rubbers . |
| 22 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 23 | Finding the optimum location is largely a matter of trial and error , but aim to place them where they can not be seen upside-down ( i.e. , with the top end facing a wall ) , or use them as wall-hangings . |
| 24 | He said oh we use them as ramps . |
| 25 | It is possible to identify times when there has been a good process of consultation and use them as examples . |
| 26 | For example , you can put down hoops or ball cans in certain areas of the court and use them as targets . |
| 27 | Er Use them as pizzas maybe ? |
| 28 | Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on . |
| 29 | ‘ You use us as conveniences . |
| 30 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |