Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving from her external trappings to her internal structure , he represents her as a sort of wooden skeleton . |
| 2 | Karenin also tells Anna he loves her as a husband but she does n't believe he is capable of love or knows what it is either . |
| 3 | He describes them as an investment , but critics describe the paintings as worthless rubbish . |
| 4 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 5 | At times he is chiefly concerned with democracy as a form of government , when he describes it as a regime in which ‘ the people more or less participate in their government ’ , and says that ‘ its meaning is intimately connected with the idea of political liberty ’ ; while on other occasions he uses the term ‘ democracy ’ to describe a type of society , and refers more broadly to ‘ democratic institutions ’ and by implication to what would later be called a ‘ democratic way of life ’ . |
| 6 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 7 | He sees them as an ‘ albums ’ band but would like them to have Top 10 hits in the singles charts . |
| 8 | Rather he sees them as an embodiment of the fears of seventeenth-century conservatives worried about the extreme forms radical religious movements were taking . |
| 9 | He sees him as an idealist , likes his ‘ spark ’ . |
| 10 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 11 | He sees it as a weakness of international law that no such machinery exists , and argues that an internationally authorised force should be set up by the UN Security Council to intervene in rogue states on various continents . |
| 12 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 13 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 14 | Economically , he sees it as the difference between the hare and the tortoise : the free market model with its exciting instability , its romantic success stories , its idealistic zeal ; the social market with its patient , unspectacular , benign growth , and its cultural cohesion . |
| 15 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 16 | He remembers him as a melancholy figure . |
| 17 | He remembers it as a mining village/town in decline as the coal seam was coming to an end , a depressed working-class community in which sectarianism was rife . |
| 18 | Sometimes the farmer will be almost desperate to be rid of his rabbits since he regards them as a pest which makes undesirable inroads into the profitability of his farm . |
| 19 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 20 | I often think he regards me as a fool . |
| 21 | He regards it as a way forward for the museum and a means of providing a window for many more people on Britain 's scientific and technological expertise . |
| 22 | While it needs to be developed in terms of the production of ideologies by class formations , he regards it as a corrective to the view , often attributed to the sociology of knowledge , that a particular ideology belongs to a class . |
| 23 | And it is a characteristic of Richard Branson that wherever he is , he regards it as a party , and has usually done his best to make it such by the addition of as many people as possible . |
| 24 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
| 25 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
| 26 | In the end he presents it as a solution to the problem which he had been set but it is really nothing of the sort . |
| 27 | He strikes me as a man who meantime has ceased to enjoy his lot . |
| 28 | His own experiences crowd upon him , even from earliest infancy ; he recognizes them as the sources of his own creative powers ; it is as if doors were ‘ open ’ . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |
| 30 | At the beginning of the book Celie despises her husband , Albert , because of the way he treats her as an object . |