Example sentences of "they [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd like to see them remain as houses . |
| 2 | The popular press had laid the blame for the evolution of the larger lout squarely at their feet ; pushing nablabs would allow them to appear as capitalists with a social conscience . |
| 3 | NeXT says it also has a $3m contract for 400 NeXTstation computers over the next 18 months from Mobil Oil Corp 's Mobil Sales & Supply Corp , which wants them to serve as traders ' workstations . |
| 4 | Was this the arrogance already — keeping them waiting as beings of little importance ? |
| 5 | ( At that time nobody had taught me how to preserve them to keep as specimens . |
| 6 | We must provide tuition for students and examine them to ensure that they reach the highest standards to allow them to practise as actuaries . |
| 7 | He gave a dinner to Lord Palmerston and others at which he put the bailiffs , who were in possession of his house , in livery , and had them officiate as waiters — reminiscent of the bailiffs ' scene in The God-Natured Man . |
| 8 | Quite often we have to encourage our younger executives to take more risks because their natural reaction , particularly if they qualified as accountants , is to be conservative . ’ |
| 9 | They met as contestants at a Mrs Moscow competition which Yelena won ; modelling contracts and divorce followed for both . |
| 10 | And now William was the last surviving friend of his childhood and they met as dissidents who have escaped the Gulag but left their roots behind and need each other to share the memories . |
| 11 | They doubled as bench-tables for small children at Sunday School parties and prizegivings . |
| 12 | Kangaroos can sustain speeds of up to 25 km/h for long periods ; but what they gain in the springs , they lose as pendulums . |
| 13 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 14 | However , now that it is necessary to identify the functions the judges are performing when they sit as visitors in cases which are concerned with the question whether people are fit and proper persons to become or remain barristers , we must for the first time examine their function in that context alone . |
| 15 | Further , the growth of a discourse of formal political representation and its implementation in the 1867 Reform Act , made politicians uneasy about the political power wielded by civil servants , especially when they operated as statesmen in disguise . |
| 16 | During this final stage they appear as ants , which are really fairies in disguise . |
| 17 | In Vl , CO-rich regions appear as regularly spaced blobs in the upper layers of the cerebral cortex while , in V2 , they appear as stripes . |
| 18 | In addition , from their position on the moral high ground , they repeatedly denounced many of the leisure pursuits of their neighbours , such as drinking , dancing , and theatre-going , which they regarded as occasions of sin and distractions from religious devotion . |
| 19 | The novel does to structuralist theories of meaning what Irigaray does to Freud 's theory of feminine sexuality : it mimics them , draws out their implications and ultimately demonstrates their limitations , using the structures they propose as metaphors for personal relations . |
| 20 | As a result many Marxists have had to look outside Marxism to explain primitive societies , so they often imported theories of history from the anthropologists whom they used as sources . |
| 21 | Protesting against what they described as years of neglect by the French authorities , young militants among the 420,000-strong community engaged in repeated clashes with police , and some 15 people were injured on July 23-25 . |
| 22 | ( They were agents who would find their work easier if they posed as Catholics . ) |
| 23 | Small wonder our society is so schizophrenic — because the minute the clerk walks out of the store , she or he is immediately bombarded with messages which are in total contradiction to those they receive as employees . |
| 24 | Since many English naturalists were also clergymen , they were only too willing to describe the species of animals and plants they studied as examples of divine craftsmanship . |
| 25 | Or , does the economy do better if they act as gardeners , nourishing the soil , pulling out the weeds , selecting the plants ? |
| 26 | They act as guardians of the public purse when dealing with members of spending departments who seek additional resources . |
| 27 | They act as go-betweens , representing their department 's best case but also educating their own administrators and professional staff in the realities of a confined budget . |
| 28 | They act as agents of the company and must exercise reasonable skill and care in the performance of their duties consistent with the level of their knowledge and experience . |
| 29 | A small number of bill broking firms are involved — they act as agents ( brokers ) in bringing together those wishing to sell instruments and those wishing to buy . |
| 30 | There are the Sechem , who deal with anything connected with science , and they act as surgeons if someone is badly hurt . |