Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It receives them automatically as a member of the European Broadcasting Union , a privilege granted to it because 15 member stations of that cosy cartel own the half of Eurosport which Murdoch does not . |
| 2 | I let her share my house because she could only afford a tiny flat of her own , and she bosses me around as if she 's the one with the money . |
| 3 | The beat-card counts them all as Bartholomew Close . |
| 4 | Therefore , the required relationship exists where one person holds himself out as an expert and gives advice which is intended to be taken seriously and acted upon even though no contractual relationship exists . |
| 5 | It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm . |
| 6 | For this kind of disproportionality only appears if an over-production of means of production has taken place and manifests itself externally as an over-production of means of consumption . |
| 7 | Reinvoicing activity is rather different , providing a stopping off point that holds itself out as the origin in communication with the customer ( or possibly the tax authorities of the customer 's territory ) . |
| 8 | These obligations should be owed only if the firm owes the putative customer fiduciary duties , for example where it sells to a brokerage client back-to-back with its own trade in the market , or advises him ; perhaps also if the firm is a market maker or holds itself out as a dealer ( since that is providing a service ) . |
| 9 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 10 | Will signs himself off as " ye Miner . " |
| 11 | In an advertisement in the Northampton Mercury of 27 April 1747 he describes himself simply as a millwright , but goes on to offer his services as a manufacturer and repairer of many kinds of agricultural machinery , weighbridges and ‘ mathematical and philosophical instruments ’ , as a designer of all kinds of mills , as a maker of ventilators for hospitals , gaols , granaries , or ships , and as a surveyor of gentlemen 's estates . |
| 12 | Wilkie , who describes himself modestly as a working journalist , then tracked down the poet 's widow . |
| 13 | Though the doubt is really an expression of not-being-committed , it passes itself off as an excuse for not-committing . |
| 14 | The title-page describes him simply as a Scholar of New College , Oxford and a Barrister at Law . |
| 15 | Dickens describes it merely as ‘ a genteel old-fashioned house , very quiet and orderly . |
| 16 | The artists Munch , Strindberg and Hill explored themes of despair and isolation , and this , coupled with a element of chance in their work , marks them out as precursors of the Expressionist movement . |
| 17 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 18 | He sees himself more as a poet , his mind receptive to many ideas and influences , some visual , some musical , some literary , which he amalgamates into his work in a similar way to Proust writing A La Research du Temps Perdu . |
| 19 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 20 | ‘ He sees himself more as your friend than your doctor , ’ explained Beuno . |
| 21 | They reflect money balances and just as a mirror image shows everything literally as a mirror image , everything is the opposite way round , so too are the balances in the mirror accounts in relation to the balances in the NOSTRO and VOSTRO accounts . |
| 22 | So id long-term continuity is what the selectors will look for and if Lynagh 's Italian experience rules him out as a contender , who is the man to fill Farr-Jones ' vital boots . |
| 23 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 24 | It is perhaps Warr 's amalgam of democratic ideals with an advanced sense of history , both past and future , which marks him out as a significant political thinker of his time . |
| 25 | I bet Stuart sees her basically as a good little shopper . |
| 26 | There is nothing about this combination of themes which marks it out as the exclusive preserve of the right . |
| 27 | And as depressed parents can have a deleterious effect on their children 's behaviour and vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance ( Rutter , 1966 ) , the number of people who can be affected in some way by the disorder is substantial and marks it out as one of the most important psychiatric conditions . |
| 28 | The alternative approach of the evaluative typology that Barthes sets out in S/Z privileges the writing of the text , and sees it not as a structure or as a copy of a structure ( poetics ) , but as a practice . |
| 29 | The reason that it seems unpromising follows directly from the Freudian theory of psychosis which sees it essentially as a withdrawal of libido from objects and its re-investment in the ego . |
| 30 | All the same , as against the scholars of the Enlightenment , my own general view is that it is precisely the non-rationality of our behaviour which marks us out as human beings . |