Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 2 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 3 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 4 | He sees himself as the man to even out inequalities and re-impose Buddhist order . |
| 5 | He sees himself as the successor both to the Assyrian and Babylonian monarchies , conquerors of the Middle East , and to Saladin , who became leader of a vast Syro-Palestino-Egyptian Empire , and gained a prodigious reputation for avenging Islam when he recaptured Jerusalem from the Frankish crusaders in 1187 . |
| 6 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 7 | Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion . |
| 8 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 9 | It regards itself as the guardian of the water environment and has successfully prosecuted thirty polluters so far , with many cases still pending . |
| 10 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
| 11 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
| 12 | In choosing the time of the exodus to reveal the meaning of his name , he identifies himself as the God who saves his people and overthrows his adversaries . |
| 13 | He has always recognized the sweetness of an apple as a reason for choosing it , although a sinful one ; with the lapse of the standard which condemns it , it asserts itself as the only relevant consideration . |
| 14 | He imagines himself as the only adult in a large field of rye , standing by the edge of a cliff . |
| 15 | It names me as the messenger boy . ’ |
| 16 | It enables you as the writer to tell the reader just as much of what your detective is thinking as you want to . |
| 17 | His own experiences crowd upon him , even from earliest infancy ; he recognizes them as the sources of his own creative powers ; it is as if doors were ‘ open ’ . |
| 18 | Besides , the only people who live beyond here are that Elizabeth and the farmer , and neither of them strikes me as the riotous type . ’ |