Example sentences of "they as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the war with England the French crown , denied the use of the ports and coastline of Brittany and Aquitaine , had to witness the English army enjoying access to both , and using them as bastions on the continental mainland from which to launch attacks into territories ruled by the king of France . |
| 2 | But , bold as they are , giant colour prints of segmented bodies , rough skins and the centrepiece of a kiss in rich colour close-up , it is difficult to see them as challenges to a visual or a political status quo . |
| 3 | We carry out rummage searches of the islands to deter such activities as smuggling , and terrorists from using them as locations for weapon hides . |
| 4 | Illich is also sceptical of professionals ' self-descriptions and has described them as definers of reality in their relationship with clients . |
| 5 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 6 | Though these men were perfectly acceptable to Theodore , Wilfrid is said to have declared himself unable to serve God in unity with them because he regarded them as strangers to the Catholic Church ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 30 ) . |
| 7 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 8 | The reorganization of the Training Commission has already shifted decision-making on post-sixteen training towards non-elected decision-making forums , often with the enthusiastic involvement of colleges which see them as sources of additional funds . |
| 9 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 10 | We 're going to look at how we can talk about them as benefits to the client . |
| 11 | Parents draw the line between what takes place between them as partners ( from which the children are excluded ) and what takes place between them as parents with their children . |
| 12 | Beyond this it 's a handbook of fake advice , both social ( LIGHT : Always say Fiat lux ! when lighting a candle ) and aesthetic ( RAILWAY STATIONS : Always go into ecstasies about them ; cite them as models of architecture ) . |
| 13 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 14 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 15 | She thought , listening to the famous film director , that she had not had an experience of oppression , of violence , at least she had not experienced her life in those terms ) : Your interpretation of women sees them as objects of desire , images in advertisements , pin-ups — how are you going to express the inner thoughts of Black Panthers ? |
| 16 | More important , as armies became more highly organized , more permanent and more self-conscious , the temptation to use them as moulds in which civilian societies might be recast became stronger , at least in the relatively poor and backward States of Eastern and Northern Europe . |
| 17 | Many librarians , especially in Hertfordshire , remedied their lack by attending Garnett College for a one-year course preparing them as teachers in further education . |
| 18 | Shortly after leaving Aix he published them as Exercises in the Form of Paradoxes against the Aristotelians ( 1624 ) . |
| 19 | I try to present them as ribbons of metal because that creates the illusion of movement and I can put them in an off balance position . |
| 20 | And the Liverpool Student Homes organisation is considering a plan to tell landlords that , unless they conduct annual checks on gas appliances , they will not be able to register with them as providers of approved accommodation . |
| 21 | You may then think of them as questions for each paragraph to answer . |
| 22 | These are er , books which these , these are books which do not directly concern , therapeutic applications of psychoanalysis , and as a result , many psychoanalysts who have been very fervent in projecting a kind of medical image for psychoanalysis , have tended to regard them as diversions at best , and at worst as , rather er regrettable eccentricities on the part of Freud . |
| 23 | The hunting , fishing and shooting which Diana detests will be held up to them as badges of manhood . |
| 24 | These are available , at some cost , as an add-on , and one or two PC makers now include them as options on their specification lists . |
| 25 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Quasi-syntactic ’ ambiguities require careful consideration because there may be a temptation to diagnose them as cases of lexical ambiguity . |
| 27 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 28 | It seems more elegant , and closer to the linguistic facts of the case , to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 29 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 30 | Those who refuse the challenge to become disciples will find that Jesus does not recognise them as members of the community ( Mark 8:38 ) . |