Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 2 | The French approach to North America had been rather different ; they had penetrated to the interior by the two great river systems , the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi , and began developing them as a single communications route linked by the Great Lakes and running through the hinterland west and north of the British settlements . |
| 3 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
| 4 | Finally , Bell draws specific attention to the growth of professional and technical workers and identifies them as the key occupations around which the structure of post-industrial society is organized . |
| 5 | It is easy to dismiss them as the strategic outpourings of a new recruit trying to impress the party machine . |
| 6 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 7 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
| 8 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 9 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 10 | He worked for Michael but was n't as subservient towards him as the other boys . |
| 11 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
| 12 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 13 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 're just the same with the police force , there could be er , er , an increase in police pay , or there could be any , a very large incident which would require planning , if these happen then it has always been the case , if there was n't the money available then a precept could be put upon us as a local authorities to er , cover that erm , directly . |
| 16 | Now , the world 's leading impartial computer industry report — produced by Dataquest — has confirmed it , by placing us as the Overall Leaders for Customer Satisfaction in their annual user poll . |
| 17 | Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals . |
| 18 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |