Example sentences of "[vb past] them as [art] [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 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 4 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 5 | Their common-sense ideas about life , good housekeeping and the rest were ignored by government after government , who regarded them as an over-productive milch-cow . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This helped them as a creative unit — in 1967 they came up with arguably their greatest single Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever and with the album Sergeant Pepper 's Lonely Hearts ' Club Band which , though it has n't aged particularly well , was certainly a quantum leap forward for popular music at the time . |
| 10 | He kissed her bunched fingers again , then quickly dropped them as an elegant woman paused by their table . |
| 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 | He collected the leftovers in his customers ' beer mugs and afterwards re-sold them as a special brew . |
| 13 | The accounts submitted to the Revenue included these costs as a deduction and our computations claimed them as a legitimate expense . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such organizations are usually referred to as bureaucracies and much contemporary analysis is derived from the work of the German sociologist Max Weber , who saw them as an essential element of contemporary capitalism . |
| 16 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 17 | There were no clerics nor foreigners amongst them and it was obvious that many of those going in to view the film viewed them as a sad little group . |
| 18 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 19 | They did not like Vine , recognizing that the Major despised them as a lumpen , dull ugly mass , but the men themselves knew better ; they were Wellington 's infantry , the finest of the best , and they were marching east and south to where a pall of gun-smoke was forming like a dark cloud over a far crossroads and to where the guns cleared their throats to beckon men to battle . |
| 20 | His Honour Judge Maddocks , dismissing their appeal , said the practice of the partnership was that of the two offices together because the partnership ran them as a single business . |