Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors are also transported back to 1905 and the ‘ International Tramway and Light Railway ’ trade show which was held in that year to show the range of equipment on offer to operators and would-be operators at a time when the electric tramcar was looked upon as the wonder of the age . |
| 2 | ‘ We are basically looked upon as the end of things , ’ says Richard Faulkner . |
| 3 | In this approach , each participant in a discourse has a presupposition pool and his pool is added to as the discourse proceeds . |
| 4 | There was nothing new in Lukacs 's total opposition to what he contemptuously referred to as the decadent and sick art of modernism . |
| 5 | ‘ So ye 've reached the same conclusion as Ah have , that Mario Ángel Gómez is the navigator she referred to as the man who can lead her to that icebound ship . |
| 6 | The igneous and metamorphic rocks form what one can think of as the bones of the landscape , covered by sedimentary sequences of varying depths ( muscles , internal organs ? ) , and a thin skin of Quaternary ( Ice-Age ) material and new soil . |
| 7 | Current you can think of as the amount of water that actually gets through , the |
| 8 | A BBC researcher informed us that he was last heard of as the proprietor of an organic health food store in San Juan . |
| 9 | The movement of artefacts between one place and another is often loosely called ‘ trade ’ , a term which some archaeologists object to as the mechanism by which finds move is not always clear . |
| 10 | What Marx here calls the ‘ division of labour in general ’ , I shall refer to as the division of labour by sectors or by branches , as appropriate . |
| 11 | What he calls the ‘ division of labour in particular ’ , I shall refer to as the division of labour by enterprises , or enterprise-groups , as appropriate . |
| 12 | The trouble was that if you permitted intimacy you would be thought of as ‘ cheap ’ and perhaps be talked about as the girls at the dance had talked about Paula , only by the boys , which was worse , but if you did n't no boy would be prepared to bother with you for long . |
| 13 | ‘ I have been leading scorer at Boro for five out of the last seven seasons — but it has become a way of life to be talked about as the player who is leaving or out of the team . |
| 14 | The households can be thought of as the owners of factors of production , the services of which they sell to firms in exchange for income ( in the form of wages , salaries , interest , rent and profit ) . |
| 15 | If the VGA or SuperVGA monitor of your PC can be thought of as a car , then the graphics card should be thought of as the engine . |
| 16 | Many birds are regarded as being evil omens and portents of death , notably the magpie and the raven who are both thought of as the Devil 's own pets . |
| 17 | This plan is usually referred to as the " report " , since it is a report of the conclusion reached by the school 's library or curriculum development committee , but is more properly thought of as the proposal made by the school to the project coordinating committee in respect of the way in which it proposes that a project grant be used . |
| 18 | ‘ I take thee … to have and to hold … ’ was once thought of as the beginning of a romantic and loving vow , which women could hardly wait to take . |
| 19 | The Art Of The Musical will be led by the artistic director , Roger Redfarn and will explore the contention that , although America is thought of as the home of the musical , the Brits have been busy in the Eighties conquering Broadway . |
| 20 | Recruitment and selection are usually thought of as the company picking the person . |
| 21 | At the other extreme , light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality . |
| 22 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |
| 23 | Or should I commit myself over and over again , and continue to be thought of as the leader of one political group among others ? " |
| 24 | Using λ for the multiplier , the Lagrangean function is : so that λ can be thought of as the weight ( >0 ) attaching to the firm 's profits as opposed to consumer utility . |
| 25 | Admittedly , imprinting was usually thought of as the process by which animals normally learn about the characteristics of their species , even though a reference was occasionally made to ‘ asexual imprinting ’ ( Aberle et al . , |
| 26 | Shakespearan drama is usually thought of as the embodiment of a truly popular art , whatever ‘ bourgeois ’ or aristocratic dimensions it also possesses . |
| 27 | Engineering standards and Codes of Practice can be thought of as the result of generic risk assessments . |
| 28 | Although the three years of the course are planned as a coherent whole , themes are developed and elaborated upon as the course proceeds . |
| 29 | It used to be taken for granted that the person who earned the highest salary in an organisation was the general manager or managing director : the one at the top , the one that most people look to as the boss . |
| 30 | It should be recognised as the only organisation that the deaf mutes of the whole United Kingdom can look to as the protector of their interests , and they should have something they can depend upon . |