Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though her outstanding achievement is undoubtedly the composition of the first original poetry by a woman to be published in the seventeenth century , a volume of religious verse entitled Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ( 1611 ) , she has become notorious as a result of attempts made to identify her as the ‘ dark lady ’ of Shakespeare 's Sonnets ( 1609 ) , on the conjectural grounds of her racial colouring , musical ability , and promiscuity . |
| 2 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 3 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Avoiding throngs of killers did strike me as a higher priority even than full filling my Mala-fantasies . |
| 6 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 7 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 8 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 9 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |
| 10 | ‘ Right from the beginning my fellow directors have regarded me as part of the team and have been tremendously supportive . ’ |
| 11 | Ministers have for many years seemed to regard them as a somewhat unnecessary alternative to the roads . |
| 12 | Updata is aimed primarily at users in the financial world ranging from business executives and private investors at home , to large trading organisations wishing to use it as a back up system . |
| 13 | On the contrary , the light rail systems found in experimental services throughout much of this century , but maturing only recently with the use of modern technology , could have a very bright future if Governments come to regard them as a necessary investment to meet an increasing transport need . |
| 14 | The debate over the classification of the duck-billed platypus — which lays eggs but also gives milk — arose out of this issue , with the serialists trying to use it as a link between the reptiles and the mammals . |
| 15 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 16 | A YOUNG Tyrone man has claimed British intelligence officers tried to recruit him as an informer while he was on holiday in Spain . |
| 17 | We taxied towards the buildings and a little party of figures came to meet us as if they were welcoming a foreign diplomat . |
| 18 | This has meant that dead animals are left by the roadside for the council to collect , and the local slaughterhouses have been receiving sick animals as some farmers try to use it as a replacement for the knacker 's yard . |
| 19 | Although it is true that investment business can hold many pitfalls for the unwary , I find it surprising that so many firms fail to grasp it as a significant business opportunity . |
| 20 | Keeping some form of consistent documented proof of bullying is essential , says Adams , because many firms fail to recognise it as a problem and suspect the victim may be acting out of malice . |
| 21 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 22 | It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian . |
| 23 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 24 | Obviously they could n't be ridden on a mountain , but magazine articles and newspaper features began treating them as a status symbol , and so every airhead on a salary of over £20,000 a year rushed out to buy one and take it up a mountain . |
| 25 | These will be available for members wishing to use them as part of their revision programme for the September examinations . |
| 26 | ‘ We do n't buy many sweets but the girls do enjoy them as an occasional treat — and I sometimes use them as a bribe ! |
| 27 | James Cossins , who had worked with Crawford on stage in The Anniversary and in the film How I Won the War , remembered his guest appearance in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em as a pompous man running a public relations weekend course that Frank attended . |
| 28 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 29 | Nothing of the personality of the Spirit as embodied in Jesus will be lost when the disciples come to experience him as Paraclete . |
| 30 | After spending a few months gauging public reaction , West Mercia Police intend to use him as a kerbside deterrent against speeding . |