Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 2 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 3 | The emphasis , therefore , shifts away from the uneven development of class relations and towards elites within the state apparatus , seeing them as the key , relatively autonomous decision-makers . |
| 4 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |
| 5 | 1982:Ch. 3 ) , but there was no possibility of using them as the basis for a reorganised local government structure . |
| 6 | Where this is the case , some teachers experiment with ways of collecting examples of lectures and using them as the basis for the language lesson . |
| 7 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 8 | We would obviously like to see ourselves as the organ of a revolutionary party , however embryonic it may be . ’ |
| 9 | Steam lovers will recognise them as the engine and tender . |
| 10 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |
| 11 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 12 | But in a wider context Gloucester failed to establish himself as the heir of the earls of Oxford . |
| 13 | Re then described himself as the creator and related his names of Khepri at sunrise , Re at noon and Atum at sunset . |
| 14 | However , Hope , by that time , clearly regarded himself as the embodiment of blacks ' ambitions . |
| 15 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China . |
| 16 | The government of Taiwan ( formerly Formosa ) is derived from that which ruled the Chinese mainland prior to the 1949 communist revolution ; it maintains its claim to legal jurisdiction of this lost territory and continues to designate itself as the Republic of China ( ROC ) . |
| 17 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 18 | I do n't know if I 'm unique , I suspect I 'm not but I go to my two design people and I say right blah blah blah this is what we want to do but you organise the printer I want you as the designer to find a printer that you can work with but here 's my timescale and it 's up to them |
| 19 | Amy cast herself as The Maid and proceeded to rush around the house performing errands and putting the world to rights . |
| 20 | By eleven that morning she had installed herself as the cleaning dragon and there were twenty-seven earthenware bowls soaking in a strong solution of bleach . |
| 21 | Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him . |
| 22 | Neither of them knew her well , but they would recognise her as the secretary of someone important in the administration . |
| 23 | She hoped that if he was a churchgoer-which was unlikely these days he would not recognise her as the vicar 's wife . |
| 24 | Colin Webley ( 36 ) is another newcomer as far as playing is concerned , although many of you will know him as the chap who did sterling work in the tea hut last season . |
| 25 | Next day a violent storm of criticism and derision was let loose in the press , while the long review by Apollinaire in L'Intransïgeant served to establish him as the champion of the group . |
| 26 | You can introduce him as the guy you and I appointed some months back to work with Sanders on the preparation of the Business Plan . |
| 27 | ‘ He created him as the person who could do all the things that grown ups are not allowed to do . |
| 28 | Joseph had been the guardian of the women and children throughout the long march , and though he conferred constantly with the other headmen , the whites regarded him as the figurehead of the Nez Perce resistance . |
| 29 | At one time , the Orphic cult of extremists regarded him as the Creator of the world . |
| 30 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |