Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pers pn] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only describe it as naked lust . |
| 2 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 3 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 4 | Hollywood studio chiefs do not see her as prime material to star as tough-talking Det Chief Insp Jane Tennison . |
| 5 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 6 | This might sound like irresponsibility , but , given how the performance pans out , you could also read it as professional commitment ; the longer the show goes on , the more the drink goes down and , in a remarkable contradiction of physics , the tighter the playing becomes . |
| 7 | I wan I do n't want him as Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues . |