Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] they as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 2 | Though — at the earliest — the registers will not be available before 1994 , the property industry sees them as a further blow to a sector already reeling from recession . |
| 3 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |
| 4 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 5 | In a positively eulogistic survey in 1933 , one author proclaimed them as a saving glory of European society as against newer cultures like the United States where ‘ crude forces ’ threatened the social structure . |
| 6 | In this extract the senior devil instructs his nephew to use them as a tactic in subverting the progress of the new believer : |
| 7 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 8 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 9 | The procedure circulated them as the thing that 's in place . |
| 10 | There is evidence to suggest that victims of these other forms of serious sexual assault regard them as no less serious than rape ( narrowly defined ) . |
| 11 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 12 | These dues continued to be collected until 1901 when the Board of Trade abolished them as a hindrance to navigation . |
| 13 | She would see Mama and Papa again soon , they were coming over well before the wedding , and what bliss to greet them as the future Marchioness of Blaine , beautiful blond Havvie by her side , eager to meet them — or so he publicly said — his private comments were somewhat different — more to the effect that he could swallow Sally-Anne and her dollars , but her parvenu papa was quite another thing ! |
| 14 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 15 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 16 | The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness . |
| 17 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 18 | So it becomes a relatively straightforward matter to list them as an inventory . |
| 19 | The minutes of the SGM held on the 4th May 1990 were read and it was agreed that the chairman sign them as a true record . |
| 20 | Tell him that a young lady who has read his story with interest and affection offers them as a gift . |
| 21 | TV loves them as a bunch of token weirdos . |
| 22 | She therefore engages in a diagnostic experiment of identifying historically distinct meanings of the concept in order to use them as a measure against contemporary political usage . |
| 23 | There is a difference between marrying someone while not loving them and marrying them in order to use them as a private bank . ’ |
| 24 | There were no clerics nor foreigners amongst them and it was obvious that many of those going in to view the film viewed them as a sad little group . |
| 25 | The hyperventilation brings on the symptoms , but the patient perceives them as a consequence of the food or chemical — so the pattern of behaviour is reinforced . |
| 26 | Most important of all , it meant a decline in the relative importance of privateers and even , at least in Britain , a tendency to regard them as a hindrance to the work of the navy proper . |
| 27 | It 's becoming fashionable to buy in rather than build specialised servers — IBM Corp and Digital Equipment Corp are both doing it , and now ICL Plc has gone to Burlington , Massachusetts-based Xylogics Inc for the Annex Three and Micro Annex XL communications servers under an OEM agreement that will see the UK company marketing them as the DRS local network terminal server line with its DRS 6000 range of Sparc-based and DRS 3000 iAPX-86-based Unix systems . |
| 28 | Here the question is subjective : did the person hearing the words in fact interpret them as a dismissal or a resignation ? |
| 29 | A third view treats them as the forerunners of a managerial class destined to impose its own oppressive rule upon peasants and workers . |