Example sentences of "to [pron] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 2 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 5 | She refers to them as the ‘ Children Of The Crown ’ . |
| 6 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 7 | Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims . |
| 8 | For a good overview of both positions , see Fries ( 1983 ) , who refers to them as the ‘ separating ’ approach and the ‘ combining ’ approach . |
| 9 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |
| 10 | But they 've got both you see and they refer to them as the ducks or the drakes so they |
| 11 | Everything points to me as the murderer , the rapist . |
| 12 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 13 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 14 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 15 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 16 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 17 | I therefore contacted a literary agent , Al Zuckerman , who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague . |
| 18 | It all however came to nothing as the entertainments and payments were proved not to have been made by Dixon but by his father , the Provost of Dumbarton . |
| 19 | It is known to everyone as the 'Spruce Goose ’ , but what was its official name ? |
| 20 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 21 | But still the employers resisted , and it was not until August 1917 that discontent among seamen led the government to establish joint meetings between the Ministry of Shipping , the NSFU and the Shipping Federation , with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping , Sir Leo Chiozza Money as chairman , from which there evolved in the following November a joint " National Maritime Marine Board " , of the kind which Wilson had long advocated , which within a few weeks referred to itself as the National Maritime Board . |
| 22 | ‘ It is not often , ’ said Hugh with a rueful smile , ‘ that I must listen to you as the devil 's advocate , where a youngster in trouble is concerned . |
| 23 | With distant astonishment at her own efficiency , she heard her voice saying very clearly and reasonably : ‘ I do beg your pardon , but I came to you as the nearest house . |
| 24 | I have no hesitation whatsoever in presenting Christian Timms to you as the new lord of Swinbrook Manor , and owner of the Fettiplace lands . ’ |
| 25 | Once the film has stopped I want you to think of things which could occur to make the situation dangerous to you as the driver of the car . |
| 26 | His first loves — to make use of Klima 's title — prove to be his last , but prove as engrossing to him as the lyrics in which his emotional development is encoded . |
| 27 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 28 | Eliot 's solution was to attempt to revive what anthropology had revealed to him as the very oldest form of ritual and express it through the phenomena of stylized contemporary life , uniting the savage and the city . |
| 29 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 30 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |