Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 2 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 3 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 4 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 5 | ‘ Can you see me as the Prime Minister 's wife living in Downing Street ? ’ |
| 6 | We did not see him as the spineless vicar that Fielding turned him into in Shamela . |
| 7 | Should one see him as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites ? |
| 8 | Let him see her as the successful career-woman she was . |
| 9 | Now Paris may well be the inspiration of poets and troubadours but I do n't remember it as the fabled Athens of the West . |
| 10 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |
| 11 | The word processor is a very powerful tool for the transfer of thought from brain to paper ; probably most IT teachers would use it as the first introduction to practical computing , at least with literate students . |
| 12 | Men can see themselves as the ideal human type because they live in structures in which they are dominant . |
| 13 | I do n't see us as the best band in the world ; we 're just putting out records because the rest of the music scene is so crap at the moment . |
| 14 | In the office we shall remember our as the hard working , level headed lady who always made a good job of the task in hand . |
| 15 | However I shall publish them as the only amends I can make , if it were so . ’ |
| 16 | We 'll have it as the first course this evening . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Margaret Irwin herself accepted that the lack of success was caused by " the apathy of the women themselves … the woman does not take her industrial work as seriously as a man … [ she ] does not regard it as the permanent occupation of her life " .37 Margaret Irwin 's views are not to be dismissed lightly , but it is worth noting that she herself did not approach the question with any blazing convictions about equal pay . |
| 19 | We 'll put it as the last item . |
| 20 | In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally . |
| 21 | No — he did n't strike me as the protective sort . ’ |
| 22 | It did n't strike her as the slightest bit funny . |
| 23 | ‘ Can you imagine me as the First Lady ? ’ she asked a friend in 1962 . |
| 24 | We should replace them as the Labour Party 's main op opponents . |
| 25 | So either one can not imagine postal activity in isolation , because it is conceptually bound up with so much else , or one can imagine it as the futile activity of a deluded loner . |
| 26 | So if you ever start scratching in Casualty do n't dismiss it as the odd gnat-bite . |