Example sentences of "[adj] [vb -s] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | On patrol , Constable Keith Raw describes it as a difficult estate to police . |
| 4 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 5 | For some this reveals itself as a conflict between the top and the lower tiers of the organization , between strategy making and local autonomy . |
| 6 | " It would depend on nervous strain or other excitement , of course , but from the look of things this strikes me as a fairly cool job . |
| 7 | This strikes me as the best way of getting a real working knowledge of computers . |
| 8 | Okay so this strikes us as a rather eccentric claim er he does qualify it , he says that there may be cases where there are n't enough people of independent means in a country to present themselves , he does n't mean England here he means some of the dependent territories and then members of parliament should be paid compensation rather than a salary . |
| 9 | Neither describes itself as a restaurant . |
| 10 | But however distinguished its history , Edinburgh very much sees itself as a University of the 1990s committed to research and teaching covering the hi-tech disciplines of the future , as well as disciplines rooted in the past . |
| 11 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 12 | Charles Handy describes him as a man of immense power and influence , but ‘ One who would not exploit it ’ . |
| 13 | I do , however , have some minor reservations about their approach to individual movements ( the Finale of Op. 51 No. 1 strikes me as a little lacking in urgency , for example ) and the recordings tend to emphasise a rather compressed dynamic range . |
| 14 | There is a certain latter-day Robin Hood quality about Philip Gould , who at 40 sees himself as a ‘ man with a mission ’ . |
| 15 | The 5TH adopts it as a reality . |
| 16 | That strikes me as an unduly negative approach . |