Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 2 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 3 | And they class it as the south . |
| 4 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 5 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 6 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |
| 7 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 8 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 9 | They adore her as the queen of their traditional music , and then revile her , with equal enthusiasm , as a moral obscenity . |
| 10 | They adore her as the queen of their traditional music , and then revile her , with equal enthusiasm , as a moral obscenity . |
| 11 | It was said in Scorer v Seymour-Johns [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 347 per Salmon LJ that the special element can be characterised as the connection relying on the employee to the extent that they regard him as the business rather than his employer : in that case the employer 's business had many recurring customers ( cf Fellowes & Son v Fisher [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 829 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ They treat you as the expert , ’ said one experienced man . |
| 13 | As infants slowly become aware of the mother as a separate person , they see her as the owner of a much needed resource . |
| 14 | They see it as the first stage in widening contacts with Western Europe . |
| 15 | And rather than viewing the party 's triumph in October as an expression of the will of the Russian masses , they see it as the product of manipulation of an unstable situation by an élite group of fanatical revolutionaries . |
| 16 | They see it as the ultimate proof that there must originally have been a designer , not a blind watchmaker but a far-sighted supernatural watchmaker . |