Example sentences of "they [vb past] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They met as a commission , under the chairmanship of the Swede Gustaf Aulén , to debate the first theme of the agenda , the Universal Church in God 's Design . |
| 2 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 3 | Only if the applicant can meet all these standards are then they admitted as a member . |
| 4 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 5 | Russell Reynolds suffered another knock with the arrival of Windle priem at Korn/Ferry , who effectively took much of the firm 's vital financial services business in New York in the late 1970s ; but they recovered as a result of the build-up of their overseas branches , and several successful big name searches . |
| 6 | This group had isolated themselves socially because of the paranoia that they experienced as a side-effect of their drug use . |
| 7 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 8 | The beliefs of this group centred on Downing Street were completely at odds with the ideas of most of the Great and Good whom , indeed , they regarded as a symptom of the problem . |
| 9 | In August they objected to a Battle of Britain parade , which they regarded as a recruiting drive for the ‘ occupying armed forces ’ . |
| 10 | I thought their finest moment was when , having lost the semi-final to England in a match controversially shortened by rain , they sportingly accepted what they regarded as a ludicrous interpretation of a ludicrous set of rules and publicly shook hands with the England team before starting on a lap of farewell of the stadium . |
| 11 | They expressed fears of leaving the embrace of what they regarded as the mother party . |
| 12 | Rightly or wrongly , it is the latter whom they regarded as the enemy during the war of 1982 . |
| 13 | It was from Egypt , too , that the Minoans imported a limited range of manufactured goods ; the fact that nearly all the imports of manufactured goods were Egyptian reflects the Minoans ' admiration for Egyptian culture : possibly it was the only culture they regarded as the equal of their own . |
| 14 | Labour members , though generally more committed to old-age pensions , free school meals and redistributive taxation than Liberals and considerably more so than Conservatives , gave greater primacy in their election addresses to unemployment and hours of work , which they regarded as the major social issues . |
| 15 | The nurses involved in the IMS survey carried out in 1986 for the RCN gave a clear impression of what they regarded as the important features of the work situation : " good job security " , " good atmosphere " , and " doing a worthwhile job " were cited as by far the most important . |
| 16 | Although the primary target for the policy of Anglicization was the Asian communities , schools appeared to be equally concerned with what they regarded as the ‘ plantation English ’ of Afro-Caribbean pupils ( Grosvenor , 1991 ) . |
| 17 | At the same time , even the most highly-educated ‘ modern ’ entrepreneurs were acutely resentful of what they regarded as the disdain for business prevalent among the professional intelligentsia and ‘ enlightened public opinion ’ . |
| 18 | For example , middle class women were as convinced as working class women by the medical profession 's call for hospitalised childbirth , although just as working class women wanted what they regarded as the additional bonus of hospital rest , so middle class women also saw the availability of anaesthesia as a major reason for welcoming the trend to hospital births . |
| 19 | The 18 Kurile islands to the north of the disputed territories were Russian territory , and Soviet troops had occupied what they regarded as the southern part of the chain at the end of the Pacific War in 1945 . |
| 20 | Their main aim was not to obtain compensation — it was said that there was no prospect of recovering damages from Mr Anderson — but to rectify what they regarded as the injustice of his acquittal . |
| 21 | If , in the years to follow , he did relatively little to help the Valois war effort , his defection greatly angered the English who reacted in strongly emotional terms to what they regarded as an act of betrayal and treason against the English crown . |
| 22 | Given the thinly disguised mutual suspicion which traditionally exists between economists and sociologists , it is scarcely surprising that most mainstream economists were deeply unhappy at what they regarded as an unjustified yielding of territory to an altogether less rigorous discipline . ) |
| 23 | Some villagers were angry at what they regarded as an invasion — others were worried about drugs . |
| 24 | That was the word they used as a condition : So long as you stay balanced , darling . ’ |
| 25 | De Vere Green was already up in the seat of the converted Sno-cat that they used as a tractor , its caterpillar track ideal for use in the harsh Dartmoor winters . |
| 26 | The key to the polypterid method of breathing is the elastic skin of interlocking scales , like body armour , which they used as a kind of diaphragm . |
| 27 | Many Braniel people owned cars and telephones , which they used as a means of maintaining important personal ties over long distances , and the capacity of these ties to influence their behaviour ( linguistic or otherwise ) is not clear . |
| 28 | They used as the base for their attack a campsite in the vicinity . |
| 29 | Labour launched an immediate protest over what they described as a ‘ pathetic prank ’ , and voiced concern that their legitimate work as a political party in the election campaign could be affected if their switchboard was jammed . |
| 30 | The event was marred , however , by the refusal of the Young Socialists to march behind the Irish tricolour , which they described as a ‘ bourgeois flag ’ . |