Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 2 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 4 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 5 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 6 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 7 | It was he who after a particularly violent disagreement , suggested that Joan should be invited to pay them another visit — though he referred to her as the lady Anne , as had been agreed . |
| 8 | This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality . |
| 9 | Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it . |
| 10 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 11 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |
| 12 | The current is you can think of it as the amount of water goes through , it 's actually the the current is the amount of electrons that get through in a second . |
| 13 | The sound moved through us as the gunman 's shoulder and body jerked with the recoil of the rifle , the small boy 's face alert , fixated . |
| 14 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 15 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 16 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 17 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 18 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 19 | We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming . |
| 20 | We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve . |
| 21 | For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR . |
| 22 | He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it . |
| 23 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 24 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 25 | The position of women that Engels found when he was writing was therefore seen by him as the product of a moment of history . |
| 26 | The time-table imposed by you as the coach , on you as the trainee , acts as a control device . |
| 27 | It was agreed between us as the most suitable form of address . ’ |
| 28 | Then I forgot about it as the carrots boiled over . |
| 29 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 30 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |