Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 2 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 3 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 4 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 5 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 6 | Corbett regained his strength and scrambled to his feet , dragging the dwarf in his grasp with him as the latter 's accomplice slumped wordlessly to his knees . |
| 7 | This model has been contrasted with the clinical model by referring to the difference between them as the difference between a travel companion ( clinical ) and a travel agent ( administrative ) . |
| 8 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |
| 9 | Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry . |
| 10 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole … |
| 11 | It was a merry-go-round with me as the central pole . |
| 12 | I felt truly honoured to be asked on The Morecambe and Wise Show and I still do — I regard my appearance with them as the apotheosis of my career and I do n't say that lightly or gratuitously . |
| 13 | I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt . |
| 14 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 15 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 16 | So , though Geoffrey expressed his anger after the knight Walter had killed one of his kinsmen , he accepted two mills from him as the price of his peace . |
| 17 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 18 | This is a long way from Dicey 's reliance on them as the guardians of our rights . |
| 19 | There was a brief scream behind him as the crossbow man , sighting down his weapon , dropped it and clutched at his throat . |
| 20 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 21 | The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds . |
| 22 | Oh , Mummy , could I go in the fancy-dress parade as Red Riding Hood , with Bully behind me as the wolf ? ’ |
| 23 | I have no hesitation whatsoever in presenting Christian Timms to you as the new lord of Swinbrook Manor , and owner of the Fettiplace lands . ’ |
| 24 | Some go so far , though this is an excessive claim , as to argue that variable analysis is the embodiment of the scientific method , while more , if less fulsomely , do make strong claims for it as the epitome of objective , rigorous empirical social research against which all others are to be judged . |
| 25 | A fast moving , rapid action arcade adventure with you as the jet-pack propelled hero on your way to meet one of the most fiendish Insects known to man . |
| 26 | All World Bank financial data are converted into US dollars , and this is , indeed , one serious problem with them as the bank itself acknowledges ( see , for example , World Development Report , 1988 , pp.290–1 ) . |
| 27 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |
| 28 | These are n't necessarily the sort of persons I want to have anything to do with anyway , " Quiss said , indicating the various attendants , waiters and scullions around them as the under-cook respectfully approached the seneschal , bowing to him . |
| 29 | I felt the screws who did n't belong to this clique and did n't subscribe to it were given almost as hard a time by them as the inmates . |