Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | You may need it as evidence to support your claim . |
2 | Not all small creatures are pests , some are predatory on the pests themselves , and we should regard them as friends . |
3 | The drafter should regard it as part of his/her job to advise the business client on the adoption of proper procedures . |
4 | These will get better and better and we should consider them as part of our thinking . |
5 | Prime Minister Mahathir on Dec. 28 , 1989 , advised UMNO ( Baru ) that Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba should succeed him as leader of the party and of the government . |
6 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
7 | In order to create an individual life in the world , we should use them as colours on an artist 's palette , to paint our own picture . |
8 | Rather than seeing child abuse as an exceptional problem requiring an exceptional response , and hence a qualitatively different practice , we should see it as part of child care and hence child care practice . |
9 | Information is our stock-in-trade , and we should see ourselves as custodians , users , and disseminators of information . |
10 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
11 | Perhaps Alex Mair should take her as patron of his power station , a quasi-saint of rationality . ’ |
12 | ‘ If you ask the players to perform to the extent that they are expected to entertain the public , they you must pay them as entertainers ’ , was the way former Ireland coach Jimmy Davidson summed up the situation . |
13 | ‘ You must address me as Jaq . ’ |
14 | Since a high proportion of the over 40s in the population met their marriage-partners in dance halls , this nostalgia extends far beyond the group who might regard themselves as ballroom dancers . |
15 | You 'll know him as Adrian from BBC1 's Bread . |
16 | Of those who might succeed him as leader , at least two men and one woman — Constantine Simitis , Gerasimos Arsenis and Vasso Papandreou ( no relation ) — could probably do for Greece 's left what Michel Rocard has proposed to do for France 's . |
17 | We 'll do it as clerk of the scales and er we 'll inform him that that 's on you know one |
18 | If you do know it , then , should you admit it , because if we 've seen it happen , we 'll report it as fact , because we saw it happen . |
19 | Just write the equation out again and let's get the we 'll write it as N over ten shall we ? |
20 | And we 'll have to change that to we 'll write it as six over ten then we 'll write it as point six . |
21 | The introduction of compulsory , competitive tendering through the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 and the Local Government Act 1988 means that direct service organisations may see themselves as agencies with a degree of independence from the actual client , for example , the social service department requiring the cleaning office buildings . |
22 | I think did n't we say we 'd cover it as part of an E O workshop . |
23 | We could venerate them as ancestors . |
24 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
25 | Supporters could perceive themselves as part of ‘ a collective and democratically-structured enterprise ’ . |
26 | But their defence could do nothing as winger Sharpe burst down the left and opened them up with a devastating cross . |
27 | Those who were safely beached on the shore of prosperity had the option of giving the credit to Providence , or arrogating it to themselves ; as they regarded those less fortunate ones who were struggling in the water , they could see them as victims of their own improvidence or of God 's ineluctable decree . |
28 | To the extent that these values were questioned , by young people , their parents , or society at large , teachers could see themselves as representatives or custodians of what was in effect ‘ company policy ’ . |
29 | The owner of a large herd could use it as leverage over poorer neighbours who depended on his goodwill to hire out cattle during the agricultural seasons . |
30 | ‘ Even so , if the rabbit died , I think you could take it as fate 's plan for you . |