Example sentences of "they [vb past] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought their finest moment was when , having lost the semi-final to England in a match controversially shortened by rain , they sportingly accepted what they regarded as a ludicrous interpretation of a ludicrous set of rules and publicly shook hands with the England team before starting on a lap of farewell of the stadium . |
| 2 | They were offering free accommodation and food to someone who would do what they described as a little gentle housework . |
| 3 | Lyles stand reported good interest and considerable activity at the show which they judged as a successful exhibition . |
| 4 | . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change . |
| 5 | It had encouraged the growth of a vast population who had sprawled over the land , preventing its improvement ; and because they needed no money in order to survive — for their sole equipment was a spade — they acted as a monstrous brake on the monied system , a millstone around the necks of those who sought to improve land and trade . |
| 6 | They resented Lloyd George for ousting his predecessor Asquith , whom they admired as a great Liberal prime minister . |
| 7 | The regular , monotonous monastic discipline gave the monks a peace and equanimity which they saw as a tranquil experience of God which was fully in tune with their normal lives . |
| 8 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 9 | They had wanted an updating of canon law , a reassertion of control over Church organizations , the declaration of Mary 's Assumption ( perhaps as a sop to the pope ) , and a firm condemnation of nascent ecumenism and what they saw as a new outbreak of modernism . |
| 10 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 11 | What we saw as an interesting and unusual opportunity , they saw as a second-best . |
| 12 | The Die-hards were opposed to the rise of a socialist Labour party and militant trade unionism , which they saw as a revolutionary threat to property and the stability of British society . |
| 13 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 14 | She goes every evening to the post , ’ and they began to laugh again at what they saw as a mocking mirror of their own flowering . |
| 15 | As a local — he was from Thorn — and as a farmer with business interests in the Free City , they had trusted his leadership far more than they trusted Forster , whom they saw as a boorish Bavarian appointed by Berlin . |
| 16 | Atlanticists attacked what they saw as a false parallelism in de Gaulle 's treatment of the two superpowers . |
| 17 | In 1811 the Luddites rioted and destroyed the textile machinery which they saw as a direct threat to their jobs . |
| 18 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 19 | In the end they were committed , as he was , to the preservation of a Protestant Ulster , to the suppression of what they saw as a republican rebellion , and to the restoration of majority rule in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Certainly the fifties was remarkable for the self-assuredness with which writers defended what they saw as a fresh start for English literature , and for the equally unanimous revision this view underwent not ten years later . |
| 21 | Often they had not told anyone about what they saw as a trivial event , but had buried their feelings of embarrassment and fear until they resurfaced in the shape of an obsession . |
| 22 | ‘ Their firms brought in somebody from outside who they treated as a glorified office manager and the culture refused to change . |
| 23 | Throughout the spring of 1943 the British and Americans tried to force de Gaulle into accepting what they presented as a reasonable compromise on these issues . |
| 24 | His support of plots against Beaton in 1544 and 1545 came to fruition in May 1546 , when a group of Fifeshire lairds headed by Norman Leslie , son of the earl of Rothes , broke into the episcopal castle at St Andrews , murdered the cardinal and slung his body over the castle walls ; the murderers , henceforth known as the Castalians , barricaded themselves inside the castle , which they held as a Protestant stronghold . |
| 25 | They jumped as a cheery metallic voice rasped tinnily from a concealed speaker . |