Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 2 | He touched her breasts , briefly , as if her nakedness confirmed her as the victim . |
| 3 | Did n't it hurt his arm to hold her like this ? she wondered distractedly , but then another tremulous whimper escaped her as the hand holding her against him moved to cover her breast . |
| 4 | In 1939 appointment to the Disney chair of archaeology distinguished her as the first woman professor in the university . |
| 5 | He 's gone to ground since The Sun named him as the man who passed on a tape of a telephone call allegedly made by the Princess of Wales to an admirer on New Year 's Eve 1989 . |
| 6 | Its institutional imprecision and evident anachronism weakened it as the basis for a compromise settlement ; whatever its intention , the fate of the Persian Manifesto was to serve as a base from which to sally against liberalism and all its works . |
| 7 | When I came to the third class , the head introduced me as the ‘ expert from London ’ . |
| 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 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 11 | London 's Evening Standard referred to ‘ AEA Technology — the reshaped Atomic Energy Authority ’ and the Daily Telegraph described us as the ‘ re-styled AEA Technology . ’ |
| 12 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 13 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 14 | Civil rights , the Black problem , race relations , the inequality of blacks in American life — whatever form of words was used to describe this issue , most Americans of the middle years of the 20th century saw it as the gravest problem facing them at home . |
| 15 | But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world . |
| 16 | His speech struck me as the feeblest of the day . |