Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As long as the market continues to see older people as objects of pity rather than profit , it will take limited steps to attract them as customers . |
| 2 | There was a time when most Scots regarded themselves as members of one or other of the main Christian denominations . |
| 3 | Hunter , Fallon , de Glanville , behind the scrum , and Clarke , in the forwards , have in recent months established themselves as quality players one step from the national team . |
| 4 | The club and its supporters saw themselves as part of the mythical ‘ aristocracy ’ of football but Macari insisted they were out of touch with modern football and embarked on a mission to toughen the team and its image . |
| 5 | Reiser asks subjects to visualise themselves as spectators watching the events on a television screen ; the subject is told that he can stop and replay the video tape at will . |
| 6 | Islanders see it as water intermittently disrupted by unsightly deposits of earth . |
| 7 | This type of coven is usually on the borderline of satanism , and the ‘ sincere ’ members believe that the devil and his demons need them as agents to wreak havoc in the world . |
| 8 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 9 | March 28-April 5 : at an extraordinary session of the RFSFR 's Congress of People 's Deputies Yeltsin defeated an attempt by conservatives to unseat him as Chairman . |
| 10 | The Lears are unusual in that they live in colonies ( two are known to exist ) in North Brazil , where the natives regard them as food and not an endangered species . |
| 11 | Reformers see him as protection against the Stalinist wing they still fear ( and many of them hope that maybe , deep down , he is still on their side ) . |
| 12 | When the Arab armies of Amr ibn el-As arrived in Egypt in the seventh century , Egyptian Christians welcomed them as deliverers from Byzantine tyranny . |
| 13 | In their ecstatic state , the Dionysiac worshippers saw themselves as satyrs . |
| 14 | The Benedictine monasteries regarded themselves as islands of true Christianity in a sea of pagan barbarism and it was not until the eleventh century that the monks of the abbey of Cluny and its affiliated houses began a campaign that was able to educate the laity and local clergy . |
| 15 | Overall 15 per cent of adult females and 12 per cent of males defined themselves as carers . |
| 16 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 17 | In an undisturbed home , all domestic cats see themselves as subordinates of their human owners , so under normal circumstances all domestic cats use litter trays or bury their faeces in the garden . |
| 18 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 19 | This model of internal marketing can be applied to schools through encouraging teachers to see themselves as customers . |
| 20 | Commercial directories listed him as physician in Shifnal . |
| 21 | Its members view themselves as occupants of the moral high ground because they see their cause as legitimate , their crimes political . |
| 22 | Far from reviewing Gooch 's position after three Tests , as originally planned , the selectors confirmed him as captain for the entire six-match series . |
| 23 | These have far-reaching implications , especially for the strategies and styles adopted by advisory staff and heads , and for the ways class teachers view themselves as professionals . |
| 24 | Despite criticism of these research findings , I remain convinced that they offer a framework for schools to investigate themselves as organisations and for teachers to analyse themselves as individuals when meeting disruptive behaviour . |
| 25 | Incidentally , I shall use the name Mary as a double blind in the sense that none of the woman 's family or friends knows her as Mary . |
| 26 | Problems that arise include the unwillingness of clinicians to see themselves as resource managers . |
| 27 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |
| 28 | This attitude may have the effect of blunting the critical edge of press coverage , by encouraging court reporters to perceive themselves as part and parcel of the court process , rather than as objective critics of its workings . |
| 29 | Rather than seeing responses to questions as simple indicators of factual properties , these theorists saw them as data from which it was possible to make inferences about the dispositional and motivational character of social actors ' behaviours . |
| 30 | Although land-occupations and a rash of urban strikes were spontaneous and largely uncoordinated , rightists saw them as evidence of the revolution they had predicted would follow a Popular Front victory . |