Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] as [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you move into an enemy unit you count as having charged it . |
| 2 | It worked and for the next half hour she was able to quiz the woman whom she saw as having stolen her happiness on every aspect of her life . |
| 3 | And how can you bring this positive word into the examples you gave as answers to question three ? |
| 4 | When the group failed to contact their fighter escort , they turned as planned to bomb the secondary target , the docks at Kiel . |
| 5 | She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past . |
| 6 | Generally , they did not agree with the style of campaigning witnessed on several major campuses , which they viewed as attempts to copy the ‘ bourgeois ’ elections of capitalist countries . |
| 7 | This is the system which they see as having replaced the Roman Empire in Europe . |
| 8 | Instead they see the root cause as being prison officers ' alarm at developments which they see as having undermined their ‘ authority ’ . |
| 9 | It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence . |
| 10 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 11 | It is characteristic of Eliot to move in After Strange Gods from the savage notion of taboo , which he sees as having decayed in our time so that it has become ‘ used … in an exclusively derogatory sense ’ , to the Christian notion of ‘ heresy ’ as being vital to the interpretation of the modern world and to the health of the ( mainly Christian-based ) ‘ tradition ’ . |
| 12 | The crisis of British society which Mosley saw as essential for the success of his movement , and which he predicted as having arrived in 1932 , stubbornly failed to materialize . |