Example sentences of "he [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ of a qualified driver ’ The supervisor must be a ‘ qualified driver ’ as defined in regulation 9(6) of the Motor Vehicles ( Driving Licences ) Regulations 1987 , namely , a person who holds a full licence authorising him to drive as a full licence holder a motor vehicle of the same class or description as the vehicle being driven by the holder of the provisional licence . |
| 2 | She had had him pegged as an emotional lightweight , probably good at his job in a technical sense but untroubled by messy feelings . |
| 3 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 4 | But the personnel manageress said later : ‘ We may ask him to appear as the real thing next time . ’ |
| 5 | for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court . |
| 6 | In this context , Edward s assumption of the title and arms of Ring of France at Ghent in 1340 is of the utmost significance , for it allowed him to pose as an alternative government in France and attract the loyalty of those who for whatever reason were discontented with Valois rule . |
| 7 | The odds are shortening all the time against him emerging as a big time trainer in his own right . |
| 8 | Two months after Unkiar-Skelessi , at Münchengrätz in Bohemia , he explained his Turkish policy to the Emperor of Austria and persuaded him to act as an additional guarantor of the integrity of the Ottoman lands . |
| 9 | In 1895 Morrison was in London , thinking again about a career in journalism , when C. F. Moberly Bell [ q.v. ] , manager of The Times , offered him work as a secret correspondent to Siam ( Thailand ) . |
| 10 | He postures as a political activist , and the solidarity forced on the quintet by Shatov 's murder might be expected to make them a more effective instrument . |
| 11 | William Graffunder , an expatriate German and the promoter of an organisation in Cardiff which he registered as the Amalgamated Seamen 's and Tradesmen 's Union of Great Britain and Ireland in September 1890 , likewise made no bones about its connection with the Shipping Federation in the supply of " free labour " , though he denied being its official . |
| 12 | Mujjaddedi had on June 21 threatened not to hand over power ( as required by the Peshawar accord ) to Rabbani , whom he branded as a Khomeini-like Islamic radical . |
| 13 | He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State . |
| 14 | The prince listened intently as British Korean war veteran Sam Mercer described the battle in which he fought as a 21-year-old private with the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1951 . |
| 15 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 16 | Does he , is he regarded as a great figure , or |
| 17 | But seldom , until the last decades of the nineteenth century was he regarded as a likely subject for trade unionism . |
| 18 | It aspired to the reconstitution of the socio-economic order on what he regarded as a moral basis : in short , as an industrial democracy . |
| 19 | He stayed for seven years , at first steering clear of the official trade-union structure which , as a Big Flamer , he regarded as a huge sell-out . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman then referred to housing , which he regarded as a depressing story . |
| 21 | The justification for wishing to unmask these hidden features of Marx 's work is obvious , since an awareness of the questions he failed to ask would enable us to understand more clearly what he was trying to do , and what he regarded as a satisfactory answer to his dilemmas . |
| 22 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 23 | Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men , especially against someone he regarded as an old , rusty , washed-up veteran . |
| 24 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 25 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 26 | He posed as a successful businessman and South London haulage boss , but it was believed Noye schemed the melting down and sale of the three tons of stolen gold . |
| 27 | THE DOCTOR — HE posed as the distinguished society gynaecologist . |
| 28 | He 's attracted and attractive to women and , I 'd guess , to men too , and yet he lives as a celibate . |
| 29 | He moved as the elderly people from the bus moved , but without their caution because a red Post Office van had to swerve to avoid him . |
| 30 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |