Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | As known to her as the door of the flat . |
| 4 | It is known to everyone as the 'Spruce Goose ’ , but what was its official name ? |
| 5 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I therefore contacted a literary agent , Al Zuckerman , who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague . |
| 8 | The local press referred to him as the Supremo . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 11 | These men referred to themselves as the ‘ Hollywood Hellraisers ’ . |
| 12 | Although the papers referred to her as the Peace Mother she had not been active in the Peace People . |
| 13 | Her family had always referred to her as the ‘ egghead ’ . |
| 14 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 ’ . ) |
| 17 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |