Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking forward , and viewing ourselves as contributing to the development of provisionally held theories , it seems to offer no more than the hope that we might make a contributions even if we do not really understand what , how , or to what . |
| 2 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 3 | Given that object recognition is a categorical process , in that one does n't recognize each individual chair one sees but identifies it as belonging to the same category as other chairs one has seen , this suggests that the inferotemporal cortex has a major role to play in object recognition . |
| 4 | These groups , like all élites , have no previous perception of themselves as belonging to the troublesome classes , and it does not do for the police to remind them that the application of control can be redirected depending on who is defining the ‘ illegalities ’ . |
| 5 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 6 | Both the main groups in Viktring , the Slovenes and the Serbs , were also anxious to make clear to the British that , despite having arrived under the command of a German colonel , they were not " collaborators " and did not regard themselves as opposed to the Allies . |
| 7 | Despite the number of marriages broken by divorce , it seems that most young people make their vows in good faith , intend to keep them and see themselves as committed to the other for life . |
| 8 | Both the ELA and the new Shipping Federation , however , saw themselves as responding to the same trade union incursions into their members ' prerogatives . |
| 9 | No official reason was given for the dismissals but commentators interpreted them as adding to the shift of power from the police to the Army . |