Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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1 | But no-one has dismissed it as a rogue poll . |
2 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
3 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
4 | Tony in charge of services and communication , Simon in charge of policy and development , Richard in charge of resource development , and although it 's not on the script and she said I must n't to the script , I ought to mention also Samantha who has joined us as head of communications on whom , you may thank for all the sort of visuals that we 're having , and the bright idea of videoing er , our Chairman . |
5 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
6 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
7 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
8 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
9 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
10 | I AM ready for death in this DOMINION he 'd written , if I know that the Unbeheld has used me as His INSTRUMENT . |
11 | ‘ Madam , I must tell you , ’ I replied , ‘ that since he found me , my master has used me as an easy way of making money for himself . |
12 | He has employed you as a guide . |
13 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
14 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
15 | Gabriel has ousted it as a skyscraper will fragment a cloud , as a charging bull will shatter the morning mist , as a massive ink-stain will erase a delicate sketch . |
16 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
17 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
18 | Along the Thai border , the Khmer Rouge leaders can function with impunity , courtesy of the Thai Army which has supported them as its most effective weapon against Vietnam , Thailand 's largest security concern . |
19 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
20 | Habermas 's later work has opened up the way for communication to be studied as a social practice and has identified it as a dimension of social being largely absent in Marx 's account . |
21 | Since then they 've made LA Story together , and she has encouraged him as an actor rather than a comic . |
22 | Alexander III of Scotland has left us as an heir a three-year-old Norwegian princess . |
23 | " Now you are truly betrothed , Sara , for this is a keepsake from Dom João , and he has sent it as a token of his promise to make you his wife . " |
24 | One expert has described them as ‘ the most primate-like non-primate ’ . |
25 | Illich is also sceptical of professionals ' self-descriptions and has described them as definers of reality in their relationship with clients . |
26 | For that reason , and because the quartets encompass the complete gamut of human emotion , one close friend of Shostakovich has described him as ‘ the Beethoven of our age . ’ |
27 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
28 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott has described it as an art ‘ needing the patience of an animal ’ , and undoubtedly there would be times when physical strength and endurance were the key to survival , for survive they must to make any contribution from their efforts . |
29 | However , the sheer convenience of the compact disc , and its ease of access , has established it as the prime carrier for prerecorded music in the foreseeable future . |
30 | If a testator has left a legacy of something belonging to him and has alienated it as a consequence of urgent necessity , the trust can be claimed unless it should be shown that the testator intended to adeem it : moreover proof of changed intention is to be required from the heirs . |