Example sentences of "his [noun sg] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had originally been appointed as a junior cultural attaché , and saw his rôle as influencing the Western view of the Islamic Revolution through the promotion of traditional Persian arts and crafts , the country 's rich historical treasures . |
| 2 | Sampaio , the PS secretary-general since 1989 , had presented the PS under his leadership as representing an alternative to the centre-right policies of the PSD in spite of the easy cohabitation of President Mário Soares , a former PS leader , with the PSD government . |
| 3 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 4 | So Mr Clarke routinely hailed his bill as giving the NHS ‘ a new lease of life ’ . |
| 5 | However , he does see the life of one who really understands his situation as giving a central place to what he calls ‘ the intellectual love of God ’ . |
| 6 | But the Transport Minister , who today tried his hand as driving the new train , said that did n't mean the route was under threat of closure . |
| 7 | Mouse suddenly thought of his stomach as having a big red circular target on it with HIT THERE printed in the centre . |
| 8 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 9 | In Britain the representative bureaucrat involved in space has a non-technical background and sees his task as restraining the expensive ambitions of the ‘ space lobby ’ . |