Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 2 | After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous . |
| 3 | Academics regard bias as a sin , but others may regard it as a virtue . |
| 4 | For example , Christians may regard it as an expression of Christian love to convert others to Christ , and they may consider it their moral duty to urge men to follow Christ . |
| 5 | I may treat you as a grown-up person , may I not ? |
| 6 | ‘ Let's treat it as a pleasure jaunt . ’ |
| 7 | You must regard us as a cross to bear . ’ |
| 8 | You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it . |
| 9 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 10 | If an applicant is uncertain as to his plans after marriage , the entry clearance officer should treat it as an application for settlement , and consider whether all the requirements for settlement are satisfied . |
| 11 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 12 | Now , if we find Carfax first in the middle , Oxford 's on the crossroads principle , like so many cities , we 've got St Giles down here , erm and Oxford of course a small city , or we should regard it as a very small city . |
| 13 | Staff selected for inclusion in the " Relief Pool " should regard it as an experience which will assist their personal development . |
| 14 | The Coalition took the view that the Assembly should regard itself as a conference to renegotiate the constitutional settlement embodied in the Constitution Act . |
| 15 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 16 | So yeah , I 'm not sure whether it , whether whether one should translate it as the mountains of Ararat , or the Ararat mountains . |
| 17 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 18 | For example , one article , entitled ‘ Strategy — the way forward ’ , discussed whether the party should have a secret/clandestine leadership , which would be a ‘ revolutionary elite cadre ’ , or whether , as Vanguard advocated , the National Front should present itself as a ‘ democratic , electoral/community party ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 19 | But for this to be achieved , the government must acknowledge it as a problem worth solving . |
| 20 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 21 | It is vital that social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services — not as monopolistic providers . |
| 22 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 23 | The package module must contain itself as a SELECTED version , and the issue number must match the last entry in the MODIFICATION-RECORDS-ARE field . |
| 24 | He should face justice , and he should face it as an example to the men of violence on both sides . |
| 25 | The only alternative was that Poland should maintain itself as an ‘ ethnographic monument without political significance ’ . |
| 26 | Prosodists should take it as a manifesto for investigating the links between those intuitions and the linguistic surface of texts , particularly at the phonetic level : rhythmic analysis still needs its empiricists , and Cureton has given them plenty of work to do . |
| 27 | The short period of large blue shift should manifest itself as a burst of high frequency photons ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 28 | Everyone must admire it as a supreme example of the unremitting development of one basic situation , Iago 's destruction of Othello , with a claustrophilic refusal to digress or vary from its path , yet no one is known to have enjoyed it . |
| 29 | Bill 's idea was that they should play it as a ballad instead . |
| 30 | Inexperienced as I was in counselling , I nevertheless felt it essential that the school should offer itself as a support agency through which parents could find their way into the numerous services provided by the state , by the local authority and by voluntary organisations . |