Example sentences of "he [vb -s] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laughs as the figures , unable to resist , are subjected to the torments they most fear . |
| 2 | The minister himself recognizes this portrait but delights in the political clout he has as the treasury man on many such committees , able to range over the whole field of policy . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 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 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 7 | Mr De Benedetti 's testimony amounted to a scathing attack on Italy 's political establishment and what he describes as the ‘ climate of extortion ’ imposed by politicians in order to wring bribes out of businesses trying to supply the public sector . |
| 8 | In an entertaining and revealing note which prefaces this recording , the clarinettist Murray Khouri laments the passing of what he describes as the ‘ lyric ’ school of British clarinet playing , the origins of which , he suggests , may be traced to the vocal traditions of our great cathedrals . |
| 9 | Understandably , Tony O'Dalaigh is anxious that what he describes as the ‘ chaos with Archaos ’ does n't hang over reports of the 1991 Dublin Theatre Festival ‘ I would n't want it all to obscure the fact that in terms of the festival 's visibility and the people who turned up to see the shows we had the most successful festival in years . |
| 10 | A distinguished psychosomatic physician , Dr A. Cameron Macdonald , documented his own findings on what he describes as the water-retention syndrome . |
| 11 | The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " . |
| 12 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |
| 13 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 14 | Most importantly , he acts as the co-ordinator for the support services which the patient will need . |
| 15 | Singer is a writer of standing in the matter of when , in what he sees as the ‘ disappointing ’ modern world , a Jew is not a Jew . |
| 16 | Yet only recently has he been affirming what he sees as the Bank 's main job : to attack outright poverty — measured , for instance , in crude terms of calorific intake . |
| 17 | Rom Harré , a philosopher and social psychologist , argues there are but two dimensions along which a man acts : the practical dimension which directs his maintenance of life ( this coincides with my use of first-order experience ) and an ‘ expressive ’ dimension , which he sees as the ‘ overriding pre-occupation of human life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 18 | As the Wallabies , fresh from beating Scotland , strike a deal with sports marketing agency IMG , skipper Nick Farr-Jones speaks of his desire to speed up what he sees as the game 's inevitable move to semi-pro status . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Wils ’ deplores what he sees as the over-commercialisation of Lord 's , and feels resentment at the criticism that allegedly came his way whenever he helped foreign players . |
| 21 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 22 | In reflecting on his own practices as an antiracist teacher , Philip Cohen too argues for more nuanced and localized initiatives to replace what he sees as the overly prescriptive and universalistic policies of the past . |
| 23 | He loves to bully and to unleash his hounds on what he sees as the snooty , wishy-washy liberal establishment . |
| 24 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But his frustration with what he sees as the corruption and inertia of the Romanian system means he is always ready to push an argument . |
| 28 | Harry McLevy , Scottish organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , is in no doubt Timex is determined to strangle what he sees as the union 's legitimate activities . |
| 29 | it is a clear statement of what he sees as the group 's essential mission — to construct and operate a customer-driven enterprise . |
| 30 | 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 . |