Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If mothers receive a benefit which they are expected and indeed do spend to service the needs of their families , then this re-confirms them as the day-to-day managers of household finances , which for millions of women is not only a chore but also a source of considerable anxiety ( McClelland , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Within the Rolling Stone thing , I mean , part of it has you as the chief designer and you have to accept the notion that two heads are better than one , which means designers can not |
| 3 | As a result of the infection , the small blood-vessels supplying the skin become blocked and the resulting diminution of the blood-supply leads to local death of tissue , which manifests itself as the primary chancre . |
| 4 | Nichetti once again casts himself as the noble little guy in a bewildering universe — more Buster Keaton than Woody Allen — this time dubbing sound effects on to animated features which gradually stray from their screens and absorb his entire body . |
| 5 | The strength of a social institutional ideal , however , is not that it always attains its stated objectives , but that it establishes itself as the desirable norm . |
| 6 | The AT&T programme , called ‘ New Art : New Visions ’ , describes itself as the first corporate effort in the U.S. to help promote recently created work by living artists , especially the work of women and ‘ artists of colour ’ , the term now used to refer to artists of the many racial minority groups vying for exhibition space and for a dwindling pool of public and corporate funds . |
| 7 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 8 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 9 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 10 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 11 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 12 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 13 | Offers itself as the ideal means of acquiring a basic grounding in art , architecture , painting , sculpture , literature , drama and music . |
| 14 | Antiracist orthodoxy now sees them as the only effective repositories of authentic black culture and as a guaranteed means to transmit all the essential skills that black children will need if they are to ‘ survive ’ in a racist society without psychological damage . |
| 15 | He has no morality , no God , no code of chivalry except service to a French King who sees himself as the new Charlemagne . |
| 16 | Willy sees himself as the beneficent saviour who will ‘ irrigate ’ her ‘ emotional desert ’ ( 17,138 ) , and any attempt by her to suggest that she might be happier without him is ‘ blackmarked against me as pretentiousness ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 17 | The Franco-German axis styles itself as the leading force in the Community and , while both countries make explicit reference to their special relationship in speeches in each other 's countries , the primacy of this alliance is clearly played down in the other countries of the EC , not least because it negates the whole point of having a community . |
| 18 | CATHERINE Zeta Jones sees herself as the new Barbra Streisand . |
| 19 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 20 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 21 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 22 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 23 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 24 | It promotes itself as the best candidate to advise the government on energy matters . |
| 25 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 26 | It 's all good-humoured teasing and winding up , and for my part I 've long since ceased to care whether or not anyone regards me as the worst climber in the world or some sort of antediluvian relic with no rights to any opinion on ‘ rock climbing as it is done these days . ’ |
| 27 | In continuous processes , a filter medium containing manganese dioxide oxidizes the iron and removes it as the ferric hydroxide . |
| 28 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
| 29 | She knows love , and regards it as the daily currency of life . |
| 30 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |