Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some birds are so small that twigs are too coarse a material for them to use as the main fabric of their nest . |
| 2 | Western liberals and the Left once again found their credulity stretched in defence of the one state which most of them saw as the only bulwark against Nazi Germany . |
| 3 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 4 | In these Articles , the expression ‘ the Directors ’ means the directors for the time being of the Company or ( as the context shall require ) any of them acting as the Board of Directors of the Company . |
| 5 | In the less demotic phases of my career I have given a number of lectures , most of them described as the Disraeli lectures , some as the Macmillan lecture and some even as the Macleod lecture . |
| 6 | It was the last either of them spoke as the Ferrari raced through the night . |
| 7 | The spirit which these people brought with them survives as the backbone of America today . |