Example sentences of "he [vb -s] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 12 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 13 | He survives as the semi-psychotic Darkman and , disguised with his artificial skin , takes his revenge and tries to reconstruct his relationship with the lawyer Frances McDormand . |
| 14 | He looks first at purpose , which he takes as the basic means by which the subject abstracts itself from , and imposes itself upon , nature . |
| 15 | Bull was always , first and foremost , a virtuoso both of technical invention and obviously of performance , even in compositions probably or certainly intended for the organ where he appears as the direct heir of Preston and Blitheman . |
| 16 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 17 | Schumpeter 's main substantive target is what he regards as the nonsensical idea of classical democratic theory that the people can exercise a rational choice on individual questions and can give effect to this by choosing representatives . |
| 18 | This perception leads Le Roy Ladurie to contrast the revolts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with what he regards as the national revolutionary movements of the Enlightenment : |
| 19 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 20 | As this year 's BBC Reith Lecturer , it is precisely this lack of cultural cross-fertilisation ( and its origins ) which he expounds as the major obstacle to a fully united Europe . |
| 21 | He is critical not only of what he views as the aesthetic escapism of modernism , but also of the crude and facile schematisation of Stalinist socialist realism . |