Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter acknowledges me as a mature and responsible individual , always paying my credit-card account on time . |
| 2 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 3 | It struck me as an intelligent and fair system which had the merit of being open and above-board and easily comprehensible . |
| 4 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 5 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 6 | and trading with them as a happier and satisfied customer . |
| 7 | It 's supported by our local M P , so I believe , well it 's okay , minutes of the previous meeting which was held on the twelfth of October , and I 'll sign them as a true and accurate version . |
| 8 | Yet the prevailing treatment of women workers defines them as a particular and different sub-group of the general category ‘ workers ’ ( this parallels the role they are assigned in the study of deviance ) . |
| 9 | To regard them as a formal but irrelevant accoutrement of educational reform would be a severe managerial mistake . |
| 10 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 11 | Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities . |
| 12 | If you feel that the doctor regards you as an overanxious or ‘ difficult ’ parent , then try to stay calm and state your case clearly . |
| 13 | Earning the obedience and respect of the women in the house , who saw her as no better than they were , was yet another obstacle . |
| 14 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 15 | Observing her as a well-balanced and apparently fulfilled woman , it surprised me to discover that she still lived with the unexorcised ghosts of a disrupted childhood . |
| 16 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |
| 17 | Had he viewed her as an exciting and unusual lay , and believed that she would n't let him screw her without a hard-luck , my wife-doesn't-understand-me line to spin ? |
| 18 | This solitary travelling , in an age when travel was dangerous , may seem to show her as an indomitable and independent woman , like Mary Kingsley in the nineteenth century ; but in fact , like most psychotics , she was extremely dependent on others . |
| 19 | Many of Voight 's films have cast him as a none-too-bright but likeable hunk . |
| 20 | The second and third albums , ‘ Freewheelin ’ ( 1962 ) and ‘ The Times They are a Changin ’ ( 1963 ) , established him as a real and original talent , as both singer and songwriter , with a message that seemed as arresting and vital as the times through which he was fortunate to be living . |
| 21 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 22 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 23 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 24 | Most observers , therefore , saw him as a tough and humourless man whose intransigent attitude had led to the quarrels with his friends ; Keats dubbed him ‘ the Egotistical Sublime ’ . |
| 25 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 26 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man . |
| 27 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 28 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 29 | This means that newcomers to the union would have confidence about using it , and not feel so anxious about it as a new and untried form of credit as they might if it was instead an advertised credit institution . |
| 30 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |