Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 2 | Chasseguet-Smirgel ( 1985 ) suggests that a woman 's ego-ideal is constructed first by identification with the mother , and only then by a redefinition of herself as the father 's wife . |
| 3 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 4 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 5 | The British in their quiet way think of themselves as the salt of the earth , and quite rightly too , but where matters of culture are concerned they do have this tendency to think that the best things happen abroad and at best can be borrowed from abroad . |
| 6 | Drinks with strange women after the show fitted well into the fantasy of himself as the big West End star that the night 's performance had engendered . |
| 7 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |
| 8 | When giving interviews to the press Hauser liked to paint a picture of himself as the company 's father figure . |
| 9 | All the same it is extraordinary to find the Roman Church ( 1 ) acquiescing in Constantine 's total indifference to Jesus ; ( 2 ) deferring to Constantine 's presentation of himself as the Messiah ; and ( 3 ) acknowledging the definition of Messiahship — that is , a military and political figure — embodied by Constantine . |
| 10 | It was a delicate moment for Franco , who had so closely linked the legitimacy of his power to his presentation of himself as the defender of the Catholic faith . |
| 11 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 12 | It managed to sustain a comparison of itself as the resolute party to the OUP 's vacillation . |
| 13 | For instance , though he has always been supremely competent at wrestling the best contracts out of his teams , I do n't think his real interest lay in the money itself , but in the definition of himself as the best in the world and therefore entitled to the best treatment and the most money . |
| 14 | The socialist parties thought of themselves as the avant-garde of a class which was striving to bring into existence a new kind of society , and for them the struggle for power of the working class was , in principle , more important than any existing institutions . |
| 15 | Over the past eight years , Conservative ministers have projected an image of themselves as the party of the family . |
| 16 | By fostering an image of himself as the inheritor of Charlemagne 's empire , he did much to create that image of Charlemagne which dominated the later middle ages . |
| 17 | The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds . |
| 18 | As it unfurls the panoramic vistas of past periods and epochs within the European cultural tradition , history builds a view of ourselves as the inevitable continuation and culmination of everything that has gone before . |
| 19 | They came in to land in a snowscape , the lights along the thin ribbon of recently cleared runway coming into view and stretching out in front of them as the Seneca descended on its final approach . |