Example sentences of "them as [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The British Trust for Ornithology ( BTO ) , which analyses the annual survey data , attributes the 1991 results partly to the unpleasant spring and slow migration , and in many cases regards them as reflecting normal fluctuations in the bird population . |
2 | ‘ That 's what happens to them as asks awkward questions , ’ he said grimly . |
3 | They see them as having wider connotations , which may include casting doubt on both management competence and the financial statements ' integrity . |
4 | It suited the more militant and ambitious New English to portray them as having Irish sympathies and having gone native . |
5 | ‘ … considered that a casual with a skilled trade may have his efficiency seriously impaired by being required to break stones and may , in order to avoid this task , feel compelled to sleep out or to commit some other offence against the law ; that it is impossible to expect the officer in charge of a casual ward to discriminate between men for whom the task would or would not be suitable , and that this would lay him open to accusations of favouritism or vindictiveness ; that the task could rarely be made a profitable one , and is repugnant to the class of workers most liable to unemployment , being looked upon by them as having penal associations and as entirely deterrent . ’ ) |
6 | While the parent company in a multinational group will necessarily be registered in a particular country and the group headquarters and a preponderance of shareholders may also be located there , in the case of some multinationals it is scarcely any longer appropriate to regard them as having national loyalties . |