Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 2 | The degeneration occurs , not because men are congenitally or even incorrigibly narrow , libertine , isolated or selfish , but because in defining themselves as autonomous beings in opposition to other human beings they have had to seek what separates them as a group from others . |
| 3 | NFC impresses me as a democratically managed organisation . |
| 4 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
| 5 | Pearson ( 1983 ) further showed that the identification of these groups as ‘ the dangerous classes ’ manifests itself as a continuous historical phenomenon . |
| 6 | The latter symptom , common among individualists , manifests itself as a refusal to acknowledge the problem : while seeking to defend complex theoretical claims , individualists frequently take the intuitive truth of their own doctrine to be so overwhelmingly obvious that its opponents scarcely need to be taken seriously . |
| 7 | The gopher tortoise that lives in the southwestern deserts of the United States needs one as a shelter in which to escape the worst of the mid-day heat and it digs into the sun-baked ground with slow ponderous sweeps of its armoured fore-legs . |
| 8 | Whilst the pert , Californian sexuality of Baywatch bimbos seems to be aimed at the heart of adolescent lust , Schiffer possesses a vital ambiguity within her features and her poise which recreates her as a story waiting to be told , as opposed to a fantasy waiting to be fulfilled . |
| 9 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 10 | At the moment , she just loves him as a friend . |
| 11 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 12 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 13 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 14 | The parody of deviant sex , far from presupposing and ratifying an original natural sexuality , exposes it as a fiction . |
| 15 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's unproven technology , and Microsoft has not made it clear that it wants it as a server ’ . |
| 17 | He offers himself as a scout . |
| 18 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 19 | Lear imposes himself as a burden on his two remaining daughters by expecting them how to look after him and his retinue in his old age . |
| 20 | The geological availability of these is used by geographers and historians as a strong argument for why settlements are sited near them when engaged in mining them , or when a particular industry which uses them as a raw material has to be nearby . |
| 21 | Indeed , if X buys goods and passes them as a gift to Y , those implied terms are of no benefit at all to Y because Y was not a party to the contract of sale , Heil v. Hedges ( 1951 ) ( K.B. ) . |
| 22 | This idea establishes ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ in the play — Eddie is forgiven by Rodolpho and B. and to a certain extent Catherine , thus establishing them as ‘ goodies ’ , while by refusing to repent he establishes himself as a ‘ baddie ’ and loses the respect of his audience . |
| 23 | He describes himself as a ‘ career manager ’ and has extensive experience of hotels . |
| 24 | He describes himself as a ‘ false witness ’ to his times in that he chooses to depict , for the most part , scenes of unexpected joy and pleasure in the midst of lives which might , at first sight , appear bleak and colourless . |
| 25 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 26 | Gideon describes himself as a member of the weakest group in his tribe and as ‘ the least important member ’ of his family ! |
| 27 | Tyler , billed as ‘ the voice of Sky soccer ’ describes himself as a ‘ frustrated footballer ’ having played for Corinthian Casuals |
| 28 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 29 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 30 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |