Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system . |
| 2 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 3 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 4 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 5 | The January price rises [ see p. 38730-31 ] had been higher than expected and painful , but he described them as the logical conclusions of the policies of Soviet Prime Ministers Nikolai Ryzhkov and Valentin Pavlov . |
| 6 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 7 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 8 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 9 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Some of Pugachev 's followers identified him as the true Tsar , Peter III . |
| 11 | Aneurin Bevan , who led the revolt against the charges , portrayed them as the direct result of the financial strains caused by the rearmament programme . |
| 12 | Producer Michael White saw her in Monotones at the Royal Opera House and signed her as the haunting governess in the Julian Sands-Patsy Kensit film , Turn Of The Screw . |
| 13 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 14 | In 1986 deep-sea researcher Jacques Cousteau selected him as the still photographer for the research ship Calypso |
| 15 | News of the resignation was greeted with jubilation by the protesters , many of whom hailed it as the true start of Bulgaria 's revolution against communist rule . |
| 16 | Rose 's pupil , who succeeded him as the royal gardener . |
| 17 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 18 | I bet you never saw me as the faithful little wife . |
| 19 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 20 | Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life . |
| 21 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 22 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 23 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 24 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 27 | Thompson on the other hand was keen to await the Great Eastern 's launch , for he envisioned it as the ideal cable-layer . |
| 28 | It obviously recognized him as the only being that had ever showed it kindness . |
| 29 | Calm and quiet , Trent picked him as the technical adviser along for the trip but without direct responsibility for the outcome . |