Example sentences of "[to-vb] they [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall , the most fruitful way to examine the interaction of courts , executives and assemblies is to see them all as engaged in a continuous process by which the law and rights are constantly being defined and redefined . |
| 2 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 3 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 4 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 5 | It is a shame that Opposition Members utterly neglect to welcome the successes of this country and take every opportunity to run them down as well as the prospects of the country . |
| 6 | threatening to keep them in as well , if I |
| 7 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 8 | I 'm expected not only to foot the bills , but to add them up as well . |
| 9 | Cuomo condemned the comments as indicative of racial stereotyping , and brushed off Clinton 's attempts to explain them away as " good-natured and jocular " . |
| 10 | Relatives want someone to take them seriously as individuals , not just treat them as ‘ appendages to a case ’ . |
| 11 | As everyone feasted themselves Mum went round with the drink , pouring out gin and whisky or stout as they preferred , making sure to test them all as she did so , while Dad and Fred did the same with the ale . |
| 12 | There are no official rules and people tend to make them up as they go along . |
| 13 | In order to keep things that way , the agency was obliged to keep track of other US intelligence operations that might prove embarrassing and to head them off as necessary . |