Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead .
2 Generally it falls , although I 've used as the sub-heading , I suppose the overall title of this area is perception organisation , the way that erm things become organised , how we perceive them as an organised whole .
3 Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker .
4 Or to go to the police and report her as a Fifth Columnist . ’
5 If it 's not , you can turn the old one upside down and replace it as a temporary measure until you get the right one .
6 How can you change ask , ge get to that , but say it as an open question .
7 ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor .
8 If clay granules are used , it would be advisable to dry them first in the sun , and then spread them as the first layer , before putting the other layers of peat and sand .
9 His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century .
10 Hoxton was thriving with small businesses , and Benjamin was showing the first signs of a schizophrenic uncertainty about what his official professional title should be : the commercial directories for 1853 list him as a General Salesman , while Henry Joseph 's birth certificate plays safe with ‘ Silversmith ’ .
11 Ian Snodin 1.1 EVERTON ( Telegraph class him as a full back ? ! )
12 But women clearly found ways of turning a restrictive garment into an alluring fashion : the surviving representations of the stola show it as a revealing slip , cut low between the breasts and often suspended from the slimmest of decorative straps .
13 Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically .
14 Imagine it as an ever-increasing overdraft .
15 It is of course difficult to ‘ police ’ this objection , and there is a certain ambivalence in the attitude of some countries ; recognising the usefulness of postal service , they welcome it as a supplementary method designed to back up the ‘ official ’ service effected in other ways , but are unhappy to see the postal channel treated as appropriate or sufficient in itself .
16 I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea .
17 I picture it as a large , grey , multi-headed dragon .
18 Their bosses view them as no more than glorified typists and they are denied career opportunities .
19 They can also be damaged by large bristleworms , and some molluscs , particularly nudibranchs , view them as a good meal .
20 Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much .
21 Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much .
22 Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much .
23 Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much .
24 Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late .
25 All accounts of Six describe him as a competent yet modest and unassuming man of great integrity , and a devout Christian .
26 Most people neither know nor care about tensions and conflicts within minorities , so when a recognisable spokesman ( and it is always a man ) emerges , they unquestioningly accept him as a legitimate representative .
27 Save it as a Text-only document ( use the key to make this selection ) .
28 Design a template for each type of document that you produce and save it as a separate file — even if it is only your name and address and other information about the page layout and design .
29 If , after learning successfully about the suffix -ful , he still makes that error , then consider it as a phonic alternative .
30 The real question is not whether the Book of Genesis has it right ( most modern theologians read it as a poetic account ) but whether evolution is correct .
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