Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 2 | MIKHAIL Gorbachev presents himself as the saviour of socialism . |
| 3 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 4 | But it is not only through his healings and exorcisms that Jesus shows himself as the bearer of the Spirit : he claims it explicitly in the controversy with the scribes about Beelzebub ( apparently another name for Satan , conceived of as ‘ lord of the house ’ ) . |
| 5 | Today 's visitor to Paris knows them as the boulevard Saint-Michel and the boulevard Sébastopol running from North to South , with the rue de Rivoli and the rue Saint-Antoine making the East to West traverse . |
| 6 | In career terms , Sir Patrick regards himself as the ‘ freak ’ of the Wright family . |
| 7 | God reveals himself as the God of their ancestors , and God of the present : " I am . " |
| 8 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 9 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 10 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 11 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |