Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas the Shah came to be seen in Iran as doorman to the Great Satan , pushing Western goods and notions , Hassan had cleverly portrayed himself as resisting both Moroccos former colonizers the French , and , more recently , the American intrusion . |
| 2 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 3 | Scott Gibbs , whose midfield tackling was at the very heart of the Welsh win , has always struck one as having tremendous potential , but he has before now been roundly censured for his use of the ball after a break . |
| 4 | As a result of this loss of belief in the potential for good in the future , the sufferer comes to perceive himself or herself as having few choices of action in life . |
| 5 | She was four foot ten and described herself as having sagging breasts and a low-slung bottom . |
| 6 | On September 6 the Sunday Express published on its front page a story concerning the Princess Royal which quoted her as making certain statements . |
| 7 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 8 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 9 | Whereas most theories of the state view it as providing certain services which promote the welfare of the society , they see it as an instrument of repression which is used by the ruling class to maintain the status quo . |
| 10 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 11 | The July 1992 text regarded it as giving non-mandatory guidelines . |
| 12 | No statutory formula has been found that can make a provision judge-proof , in the sense of inducing the courts to accept it as excluding all opportunity for review , not even providing that a decision ‘ shall not be called in question in any court of law ’ . |
| 13 | The critical factor in the ‘ many sided problem ’ was felt to be the question of ‘ Rights and Duties within the State ’ , and their relation to the wider issues arising out of an increasingly democratic society , notably that of the ‘ sectional interest ’ of the labour movement , which was always of profound concern to the New Liberals who regarded it as undermining political stability and social harmony . |
| 14 | He sees it as having symbolic significance , directing world attention to Australian research , development and intellectual quality . |
| 15 | Let us for the moment take it as established that dog has a general sense , denoting the whole species , irrespective of sex . |
| 16 | It often works , though once in London when I so far forgot myself as to try this ploy , I was rewarded by a grimace of fascinating sarcasm ! |
| 17 | Check over all the things you have written down earlier in the preparation phase and make sure you have a full picture of yourself as regards health-related habits . |
| 18 | It is very important to emphasise that in drawing up these formal treaties covering the limitation and control of the methods and means of warfare , those involved did not see themselves as creating new rules , but as codifying existing principles and specifying how they were to apply to the rapidly changing conditions of warfare produced by political and technological developments . |
| 19 | It is true that policy-makers in Washington often saw themselves as using financial inducements to compel the British to act as they desired . |
| 20 | Whatever the brutality of their methods , or the tactlessness of their secular claims , there is no doubt that both Henry VIII and Somerset were also motivated by religious considerations , seeing themselves as releasing Scottish Protestants from Catholic bondage ; old claims had a dramatic new dimension . |
| 21 | In talking about such occasions , our participants describe themselves as making non-demeaning withdrawals into silence . |
| 22 | They do some quite remarkably good booklets so do n't rip it off by the heading and er nobody regards themselves as aged these days do they ? |
| 23 | This indicated that Inner London and County libraries were most likely to regard themselves as offering formal induction training , County libraries were more likely to say that they offered formal training of most types , and that Outer London and Metropolitan libraries made most distinction between training offered to professional and non-professional staff , Scottish , Welsh and Northern Ireland libraries , least . |
| 24 | He probably sees me as having mechanical skills , like a dentist 's , which higher types must occasionally employ . |
| 25 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 26 | The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's what happens to them as asks awkward questions , ’ he said grimly . |
| 28 | They see them as having wider connotations , which may include casting doubt on both management competence and the financial statements ' integrity . |
| 29 | It suited the more militant and ambitious New English to portray them as having Irish sympathies and having gone native . |
| 30 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |