Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 3 | The sound moved through us as the gunman 's shoulder and body jerked with the recoil of the rifle , the small boy 's face alert , fixated . |
| 4 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 5 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 6 | The position of women that Engels found when he was writing was therefore seen by him as the product of a moment of history . |
| 7 | The time-table imposed by you as the coach , on you as the trainee , acts as a control device . |
| 8 | It was agreed between us as the most suitable form of address . ’ |
| 9 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 10 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 11 | ‘ And Probyn is recognised by us as the world 's best tighthead prop so no argument there . |
| 12 | A fair summary of the whole might be ‘ the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God , revealed in Jesus ’ teaching and example , and set before us as the goal which we are called to realise' . |
| 13 | As known to her as the door of the flat . |
| 14 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 15 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 16 | I therefore contacted a literary agent , Al Zuckerman , who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague . |
| 17 | For example , a failure to allow a woman employee to return to work after maternity leave is treated as a dismissal , with the termination date being the date notified by her as the date of return . |
| 18 | Keld , like Thwaite , is a sleepy little place and will be forever remembered by me as the milkless village . |
| 19 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 20 | A. N. L. Munby [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ a collector with an eye for quality and the means to indulge it without stint ’ and , no doubt in tribute to the superb quality of his illuminated manuscripts and early printed books , referred to him as the ‘ Ideal Connoisseur ’ . |
| 21 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 22 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 23 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 24 | Paracelsus , the Swiss alchemist and physician ( 1493- 1541 ) , referred to it as the ‘ Archeus ’ — the light or energy that underlies the world of shadow or the material world . |
| 25 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 26 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 27 | The wind and rain swept upon us as the ferry , our fellow passengers and all associations with warmth , comfort and civilisation disappeared into the greyness . |
| 28 | But the aforementioned medrese was bestowed upon him as the result of the letter of Ferhad Pasa . " |
| 29 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 30 | I 'd worked on it as the slide projectionist One of the reasons we were all so keen on going to the party was that Faustus was a joint production with the local girls school . |