Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April he was still having difficulty in completing the book and in a letter to Henry Treece in September he was again expressing doubts about himself as a writer . |
| 2 | There can hardly have been any business sector with so many strong contenders for it as the banking sector . |
| 3 | What she is describing are characteristics of herself as a person , qualities of her own individual personality . |
| 4 | He did simmer down at times , enough to recognise his tendency to pour oil on the fire , and catch glimpses of himself as a ‘ half-strange , half-tiresome person . ’ |
| 5 | This perhaps overstates the case but at least reminds us that the modern child is provided with images of himself as a member of a distinctive category just as , a few years later , teenagers are presented with a variety of images defining what it is to be a teenager , each stressing a collective autonomy and independence . |
| 6 | So , I have pictures of myself as a boss , a father , a spouse , a friend , etc . |
| 7 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
| 8 | Even so , without pause the report resumed its brooding concern over ‘ the apparent relaxation of standards of behaviour ’ , ‘ the lowering of hitherto established values ’ , ‘ the erosion of good standards , which were hitherto commonplace ’ and the necessity of ‘ reinforcing the values of what as a nation we had believed in for many years ’ . |
| 9 | Also , I often feel I gain from venomously critical views of me as an artist , more than from dithery , sloppily fawning , supportive views . ’ |
| 10 | Sex education as a subject is important in any discussion of the work of Mrs Whitehouse , because her experiences of it as a teacher and parent , indirectly , if not directly , led her into the public domain of the politics of sexual morality . |
| 11 | In this respect testing has a poor track record , and its lack of impact at national and school level forms the substance of the major criticisms of it as an evaluation procedure . |
| 12 | It 's got as many keys on it as an I B M erm |
| 13 | The regarders accused one of them , Ralph of Abinghall , of having impounded in Walmore Green the animals belonging to the men of the district , extorted sixty geese from them as an amercement , and kept the beasts for himself , although all profits of such attachments belonged to the king . |
| 14 | An example you would do well to learn from , if this sort of book appeals to you as a potential writer , is the Inspector Dover novels of Joyce Porter . |
| 15 | He knew that Elizabeth and her mother regarded Sarah 's feelings for him as a girlish infatuation ; something to be smiled about , with tolerant affection . |
| 16 | Like the Jewish American comedian Joan Rivers , for example , who tells jokes about herself as a Jewish woman that key into other women 's silent insecurities . |
| 17 | ‘ He saw things before anyone else and that must be one of most frustrating things for him as a manager , because he ca n't do anything about it now . |
| 18 | I want her to talk to me , to tell me stories about her as a little girl , to play with me and look as I play , but she drifts off into herself . |
| 19 | That your customer holds the goods for you as a bailee . |
| 20 | With appropriate care and support from colleagues ( and time to ‘ heal ’ ) , there is every chance that victims of violent assaults will be able to get back to work quite quickly , complete the cycle of adjustment to the incident , and be able to incorporate their disturbing feelings about it as an accepted aspect of their work experience to learn from . |
| 21 | He had deeply resented the questions about himself as a personality , but had accepted Kegan 's whispered warning about antagonizing them again , and had submitted with the best grace he could muster . |
| 22 | ‘ You will speak to me politely or I will split my men here into two football teams with you as the ball . |
| 23 | They did not simply speak of the human Jesus of Nazareth and of the relation of persons to him as a human . |
| 24 | I wanted to go to the Yorkshire Moors or the Lake District : I had romantic visions of myself as a drystone waller , indomitable against the elements . |
| 25 | For a ducal wedding in Mantua the following year Monteverdi wrote a second opera , Arianna , to a text by Rinuccini , and a dramatic ballet Il Ballo dell' ingrate , but nothing remains of Arianna except the heroine 's justly famous lament which survives not only in its original form but in the composer 's arrangements of it as a five-part madrigal in his Sixth Book ( 1614 ) and as a ‘ Pianto della Madonna ’ for solo voice and continuo in his Selva Morale ( 1640 ) ; it set a remarkable and long-lasting fashion for lamenti . |
| 26 | Here are a couple of suggestions from me as a customer of the high street . |
| 27 | So , though Geoffrey expressed his anger after the knight Walter had killed one of his kinsmen , he accepted two mills from him as the price of his peace . |
| 28 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 29 | But what about attitudes to you as a woman ? |
| 30 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |