Example sentences of "they as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Themis she stressed the need for group rather than individual values in conducting life and saw them as the foundation of religion . |
| 2 | I heard Miss Temple greet them as the wife and daughters of Mr Brocklehurst . |
| 3 | While the double-blind trial is well suited to testing of conventional drugs it often can not be applied to complementary therapies , for instance , the acupuncturist must establish a close link with the patient during treatment , and the therapist must know which points he is needling and possibly modify them as the patient 's responses change . |
| 4 | Herakleides goes on to speak of them as the king 's ‘ fellow-diners ’ . |
| 5 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 6 | Steam lovers will recognise them as the engine and tender . |
| 7 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 8 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 9 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 10 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |
| 11 | People thus switch between them as the balance of advantage changes . |
| 12 | These have long been associated with the arch-priest of uniformitarianism , Charles Lyell , who used them as the frontispiece of his great proselytising work " Principles of Geology " . |
| 13 | All World Bank financial data are converted into US dollars , and this is , indeed , one serious problem with them as the bank itself acknowledges ( see , for example , World Development Report , 1988 , pp.290–1 ) . |
| 14 | From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments . |
| 15 | This model has been contrasted with the clinical model by referring to the difference between them as the difference between a travel companion ( clinical ) and a travel agent ( administrative ) . |
| 16 | These are n't necessarily the sort of persons I want to have anything to do with anyway , " Quiss said , indicating the various attendants , waiters and scullions around them as the under-cook respectfully approached the seneschal , bowing to him . |
| 17 | He would put them forward in a specially written book , bound in the finest calf , to some powerful patron who , in Cranston 's dreams , would see them as the solution to all of London 's problems . |
| 18 | The Bishop of Chester saw them as the solution to the problem of reconciling " manual labour and spiritual instruction " in a way so " as not to interfere with or obstruct each other " . |
| 19 | These were Clione , and I cam to think of them as the party animals , always feasting and fighting and mating . |
| 20 | Orthodox constitutional theory bestows on individual members the right of independent action and does not regard them as the representative of the party without which they would not have been elected ; over-solicitude for the wishes of their constituents would probably lead them into conflict with the party in parliament . |
| 21 | You could even press the flowers that were worn or used at the event and then use them as the decoration . |
| 22 | " Whatever the force of this cryptic remark , it is up to us as readers to find a value for these preferences , or else to dismiss them as the outcome of prejudice or eccentricity . |
| 23 | The radical feminist analysis described at the beginning of this chapter would see these as aspects of men 's patriarchal control over women ; the Marxist feminists would see them as a result of capitalism ; others would see them as the outcome of both systems , and indeed of racist systems too . |
| 24 | Today 's visitor to Paris knows them as the boulevard Saint-Michel and the boulevard Sébastopol running from North to South , with the rue de Rivoli and the rue Saint-Antoine making the East to West traverse . |
| 25 | One sees them as judgments inflicted by the ancestors : the other views them as the consequence of the envious spleen of anti-social , perverted witches . |
| 26 | Equally , it is not uncommon to find such introductions or extensions of temporary working labelled by those who are critical of them as the introduction or extension of " casualisation " ( see , for instance , the report of a motion passed at the 1986 conference of the engineering workers union ( AUEW ) which " attacked the greater use of casual workers by employers " in Financial Times , 23/4/86 ) . |
| 27 | The Latin American ministers urged the EC countries not to forget them as the demand for aid from eastern Europe and the Soviet Union became more pressing . |
| 28 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 29 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 30 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |