Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On September 6 the Sunday Express published on its front page a story concerning the Princess Royal which quoted her as making certain statements . |
| 2 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 3 | Whereas most theories of the state view it as providing certain services which promote the welfare of the society , they see it as an instrument of repression which is used by the ruling class to maintain the status quo . |
| 4 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 5 | The July 1992 text regarded it as giving non-mandatory guidelines . |
| 6 | The critical factor in the ‘ many sided problem ’ was felt to be the question of ‘ Rights and Duties within the State ’ , and their relation to the wider issues arising out of an increasingly democratic society , notably that of the ‘ sectional interest ’ of the labour movement , which was always of profound concern to the New Liberals who regarded it as undermining political stability and social harmony . |
| 7 | He sees it as having symbolic significance , directing world attention to Australian research , development and intellectual quality . |
| 8 | He probably sees me as having mechanical skills , like a dentist 's , which higher types must occasionally employ . |
| 9 | The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's what happens to them as asks awkward questions , ’ he said grimly . |
| 11 | It suited the more militant and ambitious New English to portray them as having Irish sympathies and having gone native . |
| 12 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
| 13 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |
| 14 | Manpower told us that its staff are attracted to it and stay with it because of the level of such fringe benefits and the level of pay it offers and not because they are given contracts which confirm them as having dependent employee Status . |
| 15 | But if we listen to them carefully , it is evident that they parade their doubts not so much to resolve them as to evoke public sympathy and to gain that sense of identity which comes from subconsciously defining themselves by their problems . |
| 16 | Although we were wary of being shown set-up situations , the people we met impressed us as having deep convictions , lively minds , tireless enthusiasm , incorruptible moral standards . |