Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They walked like robots until Doyle yelled , ‘ Stop ! ’ with half his voice whirled away by the wind so that it came to them as a little thread of sound . |
| 2 | These libraries , large and small , are organised on the assumption that people come to them as a knowledge materials distribution centre , knowing what they want . |
| 3 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 4 | Although children will already have had everyday experiences with water this may be the first time that water has been offered to them as a material to play and experiment with . |
| 5 | Many of them so often quite rightly describe what has happened to them as a deep wound resulting from the blow they have received . |
| 6 | In terms of their income , they are less dependent on the vagaries of the labour market , since the major part of their income today is guaranteed by the taxable capacity of the state , and is paid to them as a right . |
| 7 | When the industry 's senior engineers and managers met him , he appeared to them as a strong-willed , humourless , puritanical idealist , but he was sane , reasonable and had a strong sense of the practical realities of power . |
| 8 | When it was suggested to them as a possibility it was understood by them as an opportunity for a breathing space in the absence of any other alternative . |
| 9 | It is essential in a well-run company that in addition to the feeling of plenty of headroom and space to create and carry out one 's job , there should be absolute confidence that those above will support one and that one can always look to them as a resource or as a help . |
| 10 | They expressed their ‘ dissatisfaction … with the restricted powers available to them as a result of local government reorganisation . |
| 11 | It was presented to them as a detective game in which they were encouraged to help the Pink Panther to solve some mysteries . |
| 12 | There is a tendency for members of each stratum to develop their own ‘ subculture ’ , that is certain norms , attitudes and values which are distinctive to them as a social group . |
| 13 | ( ii ) The plaintiffs contend that variation should be refused on the ground that the information which led the Bank of England to issue the section 39 notice became available to them as a result of a serious contempt of court committed by the defendants in breach of the injunction . |
| 14 | Angel did not mind , because he was planning to introduce Tess to them as a d'Urberville as well as a dairymaid , some months later . |
| 15 | Lenin referred to them as a ‘ separate social stratum ’ , at least until the highest stage of development had been reached . |
| 16 | Erm try and where possible to use the individual communication with them as opposed to erm communicating to them as a member of a group preferably in a relaxed environment er rather than a sort of erm including any decision making pass on as much credit for that decision as possible |
| 17 | This is the case where the graphic monetarist image of governments printing or minting new money is quite literally accurate since no alternative source or finance is available to them as a result of the restrictive assumptions of the model . |
| 18 | To assess the damages it is necessary to form a view upon three matters each of which is in greater or lesser degree one of speculation : ( 1 ) the value of the material benefits for his dependants which the deceased would have provided out of his earnings for each year in the future during which he would have provided for them had he not been killed : ( 2 ) the value of any material benefits which the dependants will be able to obtain in each such year from sources ( other than insurance ) which would not have been available to them had the deceased lived but which will become available to them as a result of his death : ( 3 ) the amount of the capital sum which , with prudent management , will produce annual amounts equal to the difference between ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ( that is " the dependency " ) for each of the years during which the deceased would have provided material benefits for the dependants had he not been killed . |
| 19 | It is common for bulk work providers to have a lawyer assigned to them as a contact point . |
| 20 | By fifty percent , but I certainly would n't be I certainly would n't be referring to them as a peripheral area . |
| 21 | I certainly would n't refer to them as a peripheral area , that was |
| 22 | Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us ? |
| 23 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | She refers to them as the ‘ Children Of The Crown ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims . |
| 29 | For a good overview of both positions , see Fries ( 1983 ) , who refers to them as the ‘ separating ’ approach and the ‘ combining ’ approach . |
| 30 | Ran refers to them as the Nottingham KGB , ’ Dr Allan said . |