Example sentences of "he [vb -s] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 's attracted and attractive to women and , I 'd guess , to men too , and yet he lives as a celibate . |
| 3 | I think the reason he dresses as an Edwardian is because he wants to see himself as a dashing young stage door Johnny . ’ |
| 4 | He accepts as a basic premise the truth of all world religions , and he acknowledges the benefit that could be derived from a sympathetic study of the Scriptures of different faiths . |
| 5 | Rather , he accepts as a sufficient reason for following a prescription the fact that it is prescribed by someone acknowledged by him as entitled to rule . |
| 6 | Cuddly Dudley is back — as Melvyn , a character he describes as a small normal man fighting against the world . |
| 7 | In the company 's variety trials , the set has ranged from what he describes as a good normal 75% of available flowers to as little as 20% . |
| 8 | NOTTS County 32-year-old Kevin Wilson is without doubt Northern Ireland manager Billy Bingham ‘ pin up boy ’ a player who he describes as a true professional . |
| 9 | IN OUR SECOND disturbing dispatch [ Apocalypse Now — Now , page 110 ] , novelist Christopher Hope reports from suburban Johannesburg , which he describes as the wall-building capital of the world . |
| 10 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 11 | There will be no hasty purchases , as Tony is determined to keep a focus on the chain 's niche market , which he describes as the top end of the traditional ale market . |
| 12 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 13 | He believes that under these conditions of choice , which he describes as the original position , there is only one set of principles which can be rationally chosen to govern a society enjoying favourable social and economic conditions . |
| 14 | When he returns to the US he will start work on his first film script , which he describes as an allegorical tale about ELVIS PRESLEY actually being alive . |
| 15 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 16 | Six-hitting remains the one area in which he acts as a straightforward statistician — as co-ordinator of WCM 's annual award . |
| 17 | In practice he acts as a formal head of state . |
| 18 | In practice he acts as a constitutional head of state . |
| 19 | Eugene remembers playing football here with various Pastels ( Eugene 's first ‘ name ’ band ) , Norman from the Fannies , and Bobby Gillespie , who he recalls as a good , surprisingly hard player . |
| 20 | Brian Clough has been trying for several weeks to recapture the man he sees as a key player in his fight to lift Forest off the bottom of the Premier League . |
| 21 | Back home seven months after his release from prison in Goa , Nicholas Brown is a bitter man , angry about what he sees as a complete lack of help from the British authorities . |
| 22 | Turner himself is rather philosophical about this question but he 's obviously angry about what he sees as a major failure of imagination on behalf of his record company ( RCA in America , Beggars Banquet on this side of the world ) . |
| 23 | Harmony , by contrast , he sees as a corrupt and mediated construct because it is the product of articulation ( i.e. of differentiation ) . |
| 24 | Larder has vowed to reform the bad boy he sees as a natural Test successor to 25-cap veteran Andy Gregory . |
| 25 | All his energies are directed towards correcting what he sees as a tragic natural mistake . |
| 26 | When Waggoner talks of the entrepreneurial spirit that exists on the Tour , he always comes back to Buddy Gardner , whom he sees as the typical journeyman pro . |
| 27 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 28 | Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship . |
| 29 | He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment . |
| 30 | It follows that once a person reaches the level of authentic faith — which he sees as the third and highest stage along the path of life , following others which he terms the ‘ aesthetic ’ and the ‘ ethical ’ — it is led and governed purely by obedience to God and not by anything merely human , however lofty . |