Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 2 | In time , however , learners and trained staff welcome the opportunity to see themselves as others see them , and endeavour to improve their skills . |
| 3 | Messiahs appeared , as we all know , under the procuratorships of Cuspius Fadus and Antonius Felix , and Josephus decried them as men who deceived and deluded the people by their pretence of having received from God in the wilderness the signs of liberty ( Jos . |
| 4 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 5 | I am certain Lorentz and Fitzgerald regarded themselves as realists , interpreting the experiment on the speed of light in terms of Newtonian ideas of absolute space and absolute time . |
| 6 | Then Robert Altman cast him as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent And Theo . |
| 7 | When Oliver Cromwell died in September 1658 , his son , Richard succeeded him as Protector . |
| 8 | Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order . |
| 9 | When Jardine died in 1843 , Matheson succeeded him as MP for Ashburton , 1843–7 . |
| 10 | As long as the market continues to see older people as objects of pity rather than profit , it will take limited steps to attract them as customers . |
| 11 | According to one study , published in 1971 , only 5 per cent of career foreign service officers in the State Department regarded themselves as Republicans . |
| 12 | There was a time when most Scots regarded themselves as members of one or other of the main Christian denominations . |
| 13 | The fact that the white continued up the front of the neck identified them as king cormorants . |
| 14 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 15 | Grenville Davey is another case in point with Lisson pushing him as part of a lineage of artists . |
| 16 | Fanshawe uses his as drum machine , confessor weight-training apparatus . |
| 17 | Scott sees her as Manchester 's star turn . |
| 18 | It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book . |
| 19 | Hunter , Fallon , de Glanville , behind the scrum , and Clarke , in the forwards , have in recent months established themselves as quality players one step from the national team . |
| 20 | The club and its supporters saw themselves as part of the mythical ‘ aristocracy ’ of football but Macari insisted they were out of touch with modern football and embarked on a mission to toughen the team and its image . |
| 21 | Reiser asks subjects to visualise themselves as spectators watching the events on a television screen ; the subject is told that he can stop and replay the video tape at will . |
| 22 | In that way the electorate see us as people first , Conservatives second and politicians third . |
| 23 | Islanders see it as water intermittently disrupted by unsightly deposits of earth . |
| 24 | This type of coven is usually on the borderline of satanism , and the ‘ sincere ’ members believe that the devil and his demons need them as agents to wreak havoc in the world . |
| 25 | In Germany , workplace representatives in this industry see themselves as part of the administrative framework for the smooth conduct of industrial relations and work within given administrative and legal constraints . |
| 26 | A weekly magazine , L'Europeo , published a piece on the problems of restoration and reproduced a photograph of a panel by the sixteenth-century Ferrarese painter Ortolano , in the Pinacoteca Capodimonte , with a caption describing it as Leonardo 's ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 27 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 28 | March 28-April 5 : at an extraordinary session of the RFSFR 's Congress of People 's Deputies Yeltsin defeated an attempt by conservatives to unseat him as Chairman . |
| 29 | The Lears are unusual in that they live in colonies ( two are known to exist ) in North Brazil , where the natives regard them as food and not an endangered species . |
| 30 | Well over two million of that diaspora regard themselves as victims of the 1948 war ; the half million or so who fled Palestine in 1948 have had children — in many cases grandchildren — who regard themselves as Palestinians . |