Example sentences of "take [pron] [noun] as the " in BNC.
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1 | My father had another , everything was okay if you came out at any time after the thirty first of March , look all I 'm doing now is I was giving back , er taking my position as the company director , getting a salary off the rent in my farms and small holdings and my shares in shipping . |
2 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
3 | We are not insulting God but bringing glory to him by taking his Word as the stable , authoritative truth it is . |
4 | He took his duties as the non-playing captain of the Canal Zone scratch side very seriously , I am happy to recall , I still adore that man , one-time CFI Abu Sueir George Gardiner . |
5 | DIESEL fuel needs a new PR agent to clean up its image in the minds of the public if it is to take its place as the efficient , environmental fuel of the future that many would like it to be . |
6 | He believed that it was the official Opposition and had an undoubted right to take its place as the next in line . |
7 | Indeed the kinds of arguments that are mustered ( Jesus did not ordain women and that is a fact , the church has not ordained women and that is a fact , women in all societies have been subordinate to men and that is a fact ) become no arguments at all when we realize the context in which Jesus did what he did , when we know that the biological views on which Thomas Aquinas ' views were founded were false , and live in a world in which ( in our western societies at least ) women are coming to take their place as the equals of men . |
8 | Yet there is always the countervailing desire to put yourself forward , to take your stand as the valuable exception . |