Example sentences of "of [pers pn] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | we like to think of them as the high-speed , high-performance loans . |
| 2 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 3 | I think of them as the sea-bird equivalent of a peregrine or other member of the falcon family . |
| 4 | One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 7 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 8 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 9 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 10 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 11 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |
| 12 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |