Example sentences of "[verb] they as the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If exceptions , such as ‘ I promise to tell the truth ’ , occur to us , we can treat them as the exceptions that prove the rule . |
| 2 | And you will recognise them as the words of Jesus . |
| 3 | The Roman defences were still in place , and the Normans used them as the foundations of their medieval fortress . |
| 4 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 5 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 6 | Examples are known at Great Chesterford , Camerton , Margidunum and Droitwich , among others.59 But these structures on the whole resemble the familiar winged-corridor villas of the countryside , a building style which was restricted neither to Britain nor entirely to the countryside.60 Care must therefore be observed in trying to identify them as the residences of minor provincial officials , for obviously they might be no more than the farmhouses of local landowners and in degree little different from a normal villa . |
| 7 | Chair , where , where erm , agreements er , leave things open wherever possible , the courts will interpret them as the parties intended to act reasonably one to the other , and er , if there were a formal agreement and that was then tested it would be a matter for the courts to decide what was reasonable , obviously asking for , what was it you 're suggesting , ten million ? |
| 8 | As conventionally studied , this is clearly intended to be a form of pseudo art history , in which the task is to locate great individuals such as Raymond Loewy or Norman Bel Geddes and portray them as the creators of modern mass culture . |
| 9 | Two men had been arrested in Liverpool and their informer in Belfast named them as the assassins . |
| 10 | Michael Johannsen plays in midfield , his brother Morton up front , and manager Benny Johannsen ( no relation ) regards them as the jewels in his crown . |
| 11 | Some readers may therefore have identified them as the police officers referred to in our article of May 13 , 1986 . |
| 12 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 13 | His own experiences crowd upon him , even from earliest infancy ; he recognizes them as the sources of his own creative powers ; it is as if doors were ‘ open ’ . |
| 14 | A third view treats them as the forerunners of a managerial class destined to impose its own oppressive rule upon peasants and workers . |
| 15 | While some senior policemen , like Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman , wanted to stress the link between the police and other areas of ‘ social policy ’ ( Metropolitan Police , 1986 ) , the official government response attempted to decontextualize the riots and see them as the actions of a small minority who were either criminalized or influenced by extreme political ideas . |