Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the system of signification that he refers to as ‘ metalanguage ’ and for Barthes , semiology is a metalinguistic description of ordinary language . |
| 2 | Elias ' theory of the civilising process has also been described as a history of manners , in which changing patterns of living are documented , and within which what he refers to as ‘ affect ’ becomes increasingly regulated . |
| 3 | During periods of change such as this , what he refers to as ‘ status movements ’ may emerge which attempt , through symbolic rather than instrumental means , to increase or simply maintain the prestige or honour of a particular social group . |
| 4 | This he refers to as ‘ cultural defence ’ . |
| 5 | He argues that societies are organized around what he refers to as certain ‘ axial structures ’ . |
| 6 | The hypothetical experiment which Keynes is undertaking is an examination of the consequences of a fall in the real wage rate brought about through a rise in the general price level , P ( what he refers to as ‘ the price of wage-goods ’ ) in relation to the money wage , W. The initial real wage rate is and the corresponding ‘ existing volume of employment ’ is 4 , . |
| 7 | Acknowledging the problems inherent in the learned safety hypothesis , Kalat ( 1977 ) suggested a revision which he referred to as ‘ learned non-correlation ’ . |
| 8 | Innumerable short encounters were jotted down in his diaries , which he referred to as ‘ memorandum books ’ , as well as in the Guide Book . |
| 9 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 10 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 11 | For example , in September 1919 , in its account of a meeting of the Board of Guardians , the Bedfordshire Times reported that a member had complained of what he referred to as ‘ an appalling increase of rates ’ . |
| 12 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 13 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 16 | ‘ Peterborough ’ , the Daily Telegraph 's columnist , was probably not alone in ridiculing the 1942 Beveridge Report 's idea of marriage as a partnership , which he referred to as ‘ Cupid 's team ’ . |
| 17 | Geoff ambled out in quest of what he referred to as ‘ the bog ’ . |
| 18 | The person he referred to as Matt is his uncle . |
| 19 | These included his controversial and televised snub to his Dublin counterpart , Gay Mitchell , whom he referred to as a ‘ foreigner ’ and failed to wear his chain of office during their brief City Hall meeting . |
| 20 | He claims the great record company he signed to as a teenager has become part of a giant electronics corporation . |
| 21 | He made no secret of what he thought of as the poverty of American culture . |
| 22 | He passed the gun up to Louis , the tallest of the Latinos , the one he thought of as their leader . |
| 23 | So were his long trousers , his formal shirts , and what he thought of as his work-clothes : camouflage trousers and combat jackets . |
| 24 | He 's punishing her for her beauty and what he thought of as her wickedness . ’ |
| 25 | But it was I who was stupid , too stupid to see he had reason for wanting to establish what he thought of as respectable origins . |
| 26 | Freud was so impressed by the amount of brutality men have inflicted on one another , and have continued to inflict on one another , that he felt justified in developing what he thought of as a mythology of two conflicting instincts : sexuality and death , Eros and Thanatos . |
| 27 | Loughton was the place he thought of as the station at which to de-train and seek food . |
| 28 | What he thought of as the sky was the horizon , usually broken by trees and hedges . |
| 29 | By the time Tennyson revisited Cauterets , in 1861 , what he thought of as a village he now found to be , in his less poetic moods , ‘ an odious watering-place ’ , and that is a transition you can readily enough trace in the architecture today . |
| 30 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |