Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 2 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 3 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 4 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 5 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 6 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 7 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 8 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 9 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 10 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 11 | Today 's visitor to Paris knows them as the boulevard Saint-Michel and the boulevard Sébastopol running from North to South , with the rue de Rivoli and the rue Saint-Antoine making the East to West traverse . |
| 12 | In career terms , Sir Patrick regards himself as the ‘ freak ’ of the Wright family . |
| 13 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 14 | ‘ She also said that my father sees you as the son he never had . ’ |
| 15 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 16 | The official history of the movement sees it as the outgrowth of ‘ homes and refuges for the destitute and institutes opened in the evenings with a mainly educational purpose in view ’ . |
| 17 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 18 | A rather different view of endogenous technical advance sees it as the product of experience or ‘ learning by doing ’ ( Arrow , 1962 ) . |
| 19 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 20 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 21 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 22 | The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness . |
| 23 | The novel suggests itself as the work of a novelist intent on a gruesome entertainment . |
| 24 | Leapor describes herself as the woman 's ‘ Slave ’ in ‘ The Disappointment ’ [ ML , 2 , 81 ] . |
| 25 | The EXAFS for Si in glass reveals itself as the ‘ wiggles ’ following the absorption threshold , seen clearly in Figure 2. the case for the application of EXAFS to glass is overwhelming . |
| 26 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 27 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 28 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 29 | A third view treats them as the forerunners of a managerial class destined to impose its own oppressive rule upon peasants and workers . |
| 30 | Sir Alistair 's light-hearted speech included a sideways swipe at Häagen-Dazs — ‘ it 's come to something when an ice-cream positions itself as the alternative to KY Jelly ’ and another at people who trade on their Scottish names as a guarantee of their trustworthiness — such as Robert Maxwell . |