Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [pron] as " in BNC.
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1 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
2 | After reports in the Washington Post that the ICRC and UN field workers had hired several thousand local " mercenaries " to protect food distribution operations , the ICRC on May 8 issued a statement to the effect that " local relief committees " organized by the clans and sub-clans were acting as a " police force " ; a small amount of the food aid was to be given them as " food for work " . |
3 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
4 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
5 | But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ? |
6 | THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend . |
7 | The impact of that on Leeds residents perception of the migration opportunities is quite different quite different from a new settlement on a very accessible corridor which would have to be promoted and would have to be built quickly to be to present itself as a successful venture . |
8 | In Britain the only consensus has appeared to be to regard him as an embarrassment . |