Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but some push button telephones send one as one pulse and two as two pulses |
| 2 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 3 | She says you get new ten pound notes , they stick together and you count them as one . |
| 4 | Imagine yourself as that traveller . |
| 5 | Our appeal to our traditional supporters was not enough to outweigh our lack of success with those growing numbers who no longer count themselves as working class . |
| 6 | And we saw the religious people , the religious men , who erm are the only people that are allowed to smoke drugs , you know , illegal drugs er things like marijuana , they 're actually allowed to because the people view them as half alive and half dead and that was interesting to see . |
| 7 | Indeed , in a move designed to speed up the process Lloyd has made a ‘ little publicised ’ offer to the Lawn Tennis Associations ITI set up , which would see him build centres — ITI centres — and run them as such , in addition to running them as private clubs . |
| 8 | For the pearl anniversary , you could create a picture in shades of cream and grey and , using the tiniest seed pearls you can find , add them as small sprays almost like sweet pea tendrils . |
| 9 | If we now compare the fortunes of a girl apprentice in the same firm ( and the wage-books describe her as such , rather than a " learner " ) , Miss Whyte , she began in 1901 probably at 55 . |
| 10 | The Trinity House records of the time describe him as 5 feet 8 inches tall , with black hair and dark complexion . |
| 11 | The labels parents attach to particular behaviour patterns often reflect this : thus one set of parents may see a grossly inactive baby as ‘ placid ’ and happily accept him as that , while another set might see the same child as irritatingly ‘ lazy ’ and accordingly try to force him to behave differently . |
| 12 | Yeah , we run it as such very much . |
| 13 | Yet he realized it was the best he was likely to get from Nora and that , on balance , he would do well to think of it as ‘ Nora 's apology , ’ accept it as such , and hope that these aberrations in her behaviour would die away . |
| 14 | Those few foreigners who have been there describe it as one of the most remote and desolate spots in the world . |
| 15 | You know when racing folk talk of the festival they describe it as three days of magic and madness , glory or grief . |
| 16 | With an increasing non-Agta farming population , the Agta now view themselves as landless squatters in their own ancestral lands . |
| 17 | We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live . |
| 18 | I hope that my right hon. Friend will join me , the rest of the House and the country in issuing a warning , in the hope and expectation that those who describe themselves as loyalist paramilitaries will not , under any circumstances , physically react to this ghastly occurrence . |
| 19 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 20 | This abberation apart , Chuff Chuff offered one of the best days out of the summer — little surprise to those who already know them as one of the Midlands ' most reliable and imaginative club promoters . |
| 21 | I well remember him as one of the voices in the wilderness during the Falklands affair . |
| 22 | the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance . |
| 23 | It focusses on the interaction between the criminal or deviant and those who define him/her as such . |
| 24 | It can be argued that biological differences become biological inequalities when people define them as such . |
| 25 | Erm strictly in those terms by by district , mainly because much of the development across North Yorkshire is on very small sites er within urban areas , within villages , the extent to which you define them as green field or brown field sites becomes a very subjective one and I I think it 's a very difficult line to draw . |
| 26 | Previously these have not been felt by the mother but now they manifest themselves as mild pain or discomfort . |
| 27 | AT A RECENT MEETING of the Women 's Institute in London , women were urged to shed a major symbol of male supremacy and patriarchy — their married names — and value themselves as independent members of society . |
| 28 | Well it says on the back of the thing you take these off and use that , use them as that thing his hands . |
| 29 | Most of us have possessions we want , or have to go on using , so the best thing to do is to take a very positive attitude and use them as jumping-off points . |
| 30 | Use them as false teeth ? |