Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 2 | In this sense , it is best to see them as a modern phenomenon and as part of a Bowing movement to find significance and variety in the landscape . |
| 3 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 4 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 7 | Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole . |
| 8 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 9 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 10 | Unless the EC decides to treat them as a special case , it seems the only way out for them will be to give the toys away . |
| 11 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 12 | There are amoebae which gather sandgrains of particular sizes — a process clearly requiring a selection procedure , an instinctive ability to make decisions — using them as a protective outer layer . |
| 13 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 14 | Well you would treat them as a separate entity . |
| 15 | They have subsequently been developed by other thinkers , but for clarity 's sake we shall treat them as a single body of thought . |
| 16 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 17 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 18 | I first met him when he came to interview me as a young reporter . |
| 19 | Fiona hugged me as a long-lost brother and said Harry still could n't be quite clear in his mind as he was saying now that he remembered drowning . |
| 20 | The courts recognise these limitations , which are inherent in any system of taking evidence abroad ahead of the trial , but can not regard them as a sufficient objection to the making of the order . |
| 21 | CICS for OS/2 is not the only ‘ middleware ’ that IBM was touting at the end of March ; the company continued the theme by unveiling the first implementations of its Message Queue Interface , dubbed the MQSeries , and said that it will try to promote them as a cross-system standard . |
| 22 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 24 | It is also probable that the many forest tribes who were familiar with orang-utans simply regarded them as a different-looking lot of wild people . |
| 25 | Wessex region would not recognise me as a senior registrar until the college 's approval had been received . |
| 26 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 27 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 28 | It was piece work , and I earned I er The firm payed me as a retaining fee , ten shillings a week , and then was what I earned , you see ? |
| 29 | Nour drew me as an English Miss : Ingleesy , prim , uneducated , unsophisticated . |
| 30 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |