Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 2 | Once women have reached senior management , for instance , where they are the only woman among 20 or 50 men , some companies tend to see them as the token woman singlehandedly proving that the company is encouraging and supporting women to reach the top . |
| 3 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 4 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 5 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 6 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 7 | I will grow old gracefully , as we are advised ; and as I made ready for the night I tried to see myself as the little girls must have seen me . |
| 8 | Relations between the two countries had grown tense during the months prior to the Iraqi invasion as Saddam moved to establish himself as the dominant Arab nationalist leader [ see pp. 37390 ; 37472 ] . |
| 9 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 10 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
| 11 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 12 | As we see when we examine the Spycatcher cases , in the area of civil liberties the courts seem to have come to regard themselves as the partners of the executive , tackling difficult problems together , rather than as a separate , autonomous , and sometimes necessarily antagonistic branch of government . |
| 13 | To develop hegemonic gain the Conservative Party has constructed itself as the party which will bring prosperity , reconstruct traditional values , end dependency , encourage work and oppose the threats of progressiveness , ethnic groups and cultures , and ‘ loony left ’ policies in local government . |
| 14 | although they know that it costs twice as much to try to collect it as the amount that they actually collect . |
| 15 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 16 | Since then the Kettering accountant has established himself as the British No 1 and holds four national road race records . |
| 17 | Since 1987 , when he had a difficult first few months while the recently arrived Jonathan Davies was recovering from injury , he has established himself as the freshest , most innovative Welsh analyst of modern rugby . |
| 18 | Founded in 1956 , the Flour Advisory Bureau has established itself as the UK 's central source of information on all matters relating to bread and flour . |
| 19 | Although the Challenge is only a year old it has established itself as the biggest single charity fund raising event in the region . |
| 20 | However , the sheer convenience of the compact disc , and its ease of access , has established it as the prime carrier for prerecorded music in the foreseeable future . |
| 21 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 22 | As the movement and the significance of British fascism owed so much to Sir Oswald Mosley , and as he increasingly came to see himself as the political spokesman for the lost generation and the survivors of the First World War , it is the impact of that event I want to examine first . |
| 23 | They were written to proclaim him as the Christ , the anointed of God , the revealer of the Father , and to elicit the appropriate response of faith and trust in him . |
| 24 | Endorsement of the Ericsson approach has come from the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom , which says that it plans to use it as the basis for a pilot network . |
| 25 | One , in the grounds of Tullie House Museum just outside the fort gate , was 12.2m ( 40 ft ) by at least 67 m ( 219 ft ) , with a substantial plank floor over a solid foundation , and may have had a military function ; attempts have also been made to interpret it as the base for a rampart surrounding an annexe to the fort . |
| 26 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 27 | Specifically , an attempt has been made to present him as the architect of Salisbury Cathedral . |
| 28 | No doubt his personal friendship with Wyatt , which was sustained throughout the work , helped , but Scott , with some justification , seemed to regard himself as the senior partner . |
| 29 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 30 | There 's a small band of enthusiasts who devote an enormous amount of time and energy to experimenting with it and who sometimes tend to hail it as the solution to every problem . |