Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 2 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 3 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 4 | First , bankers are so used to thinking of intangibles as chiefly useful for pricing takeovers and then minimising taxes after them ( intangibles can be amortised for tax purposes ) that they have been slow to see them as a way of wooing investors . |
| 5 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 6 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 7 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 8 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 9 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 10 | Sniffy was reasonably pleased to see them as the Goad men had been about to wreak vengeance on him for his revelations about the prison release dates being changed . |
| 11 | If I 'm going anywhere where I want them to see me as a ‘ teacher ’ you know with all that that implies , then I 'll wear my wedding ring . |
| 12 | I 've been a candidate before , I do n't like to do things badly , since coming into politics I do n't think I have done things badly , I do n't want to fail you and I do n't want you to see me as a failure . |
| 13 | You 're about as pleased to see me as a peasant is to meet the tax-gatherer ! ’ |
| 14 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 15 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 16 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 17 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 18 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 19 | Well , of course , it did not take very long for people to realize that if someone wanted to sell his company and retire to the country with the proceeds , these provisions could be used to postpone payment of capital gains tax almost indefinitely so long as he was prepared to continue to hold the shares issued to him and to treat them as an investment . |
| 20 | These groups are known by a variety of names , but the central idea is to bring together a small number of people who have certain interests or characteristics in common and to interview them as a group . |
| 21 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 22 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 23 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |
| 24 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 25 | He seemed to like me as a person — I felt I could trust him . ’ |
| 26 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 27 | Now that we were adults , she seemed to accept me as a friend . |
| 28 | There may be economies in using higher educational facilities as locations for events and academics as consultants ; and some of these resources may be cheaper than they would be if the company had to provide them as a call on the payload . |
| 29 | Okay does anybody object to those minutes or are we willing to pass them as a pretty accurate account |
| 30 | I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife . |