Example sentences of "them as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | thought that he could create an advantage by shipping some Russian rocket missiles to his friend , Fidel Castro , in the island of Cuba , so that he would be able to use them as a threat against the continent of North America , a comparatively short distance away . |
| 2 | It was ludicrous to see them as a threat to security . |
| 3 | This approach is helpful if you have a tendency to compete with others and view them as a threat ; it encourages greater understanding between people and appeals to shared aspirations . |
| 4 | Thus many companies see them as a threat to their holding on to their good people , and instilling corporate loyalty into new appointees . |
| 5 | The tribes that had emerged from much earlier migrations were the Iceni and that of Cassivellaunus , who was clearly hostile to the newcomers , seeing them as a threat round the northern borders of his kingdom . |
| 6 | With work plentiful , the women 's influence was " not … much felt … but with the start of depression , more attention was focused on them as a threat to the employment of journeymen " By 1879 , the STC reported that while " the influx of females " was " not unbearably felt " while trade was good , " now the necessity on purely philanthropic grounds of course , of keeping the ladies supplied with copy " , had led to " dispensing with the services of a large number of journeymen " . |
| 7 | Perhaps he saw them as a threat . |
| 8 | The wolves were hunted to extinction in the 1920s , at the request of ranchers who regarded them as a threat to cattle . |
| 9 | The Ostrogothic king Theodoric cultivated contacts with them , drawing them into his web of marriage alliances , and trying to use them as a check on Clovis in 507 . |
| 10 | He described them as a rope of sand that is washed away with every tide " . |
| 11 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 12 | Serve them as a vegetable , as a snack or the main meal , served with a salad . |
| 13 | For me , too , it seems allied with giving the fundamental grief and despair room and expression , using them as a kind of necessary ballast but not taking so much of them on board that they swamp the vessel . |
| 14 | They can let successful managers use them as a kind of bonus or incentive . |
| 15 | Some people feel them as a kind of outrage and violation , and Boden was a strong-minded and passionate man . |
| 16 | You know I 'll watch them and think maybe I 'd like to do that but not , not , you know , judging , not sort of using them as a kind of measure stick you know to judge everybody by . |
| 17 | The School buildings were by now almost 200 years old , and it is perhaps strange that there is only one contemporary description of them as a school ; " … there is a neat free grammar school " ( The Itinerant , 1st May 1794 ) . |
| 18 | As she notes , ‘ economic rationality led in neighbouring villages to the creation of rules of cultivation which sufficiently resembled one another for us to classify them as a system ’ ( p. 273 ) . |
| 19 | With such ambiguous structures , characterising any debate on how to improve them as a struggle between the principles of self-regulation and statutory regulation is unlikely to add to anybody 's understanding of the issues . |
| 20 | Could I have them as a friend/enemy ? ’ |
| 21 | They criticize them as a blueprint for turning Britain into Europe 's toxic dump . |
| 22 | He says : ‘ Writers like Richard Streeton tell me they carry it around with them as a work of reference , using it to find out whether odd events have happened before . |
| 23 | It may be less important to examine the " lowest common denominator " of linguistic usage throughout a work than to study style as a dynamic phenomenon : as something which develops through peaks and valleys of dramatic tension , which not only establishes expectancies , but which frustrates and modifies them as a work progresses . |
| 24 | He scorned them as a man of action must despise all faint-hearts . |
| 25 | Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission . |
| 26 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 27 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 28 | Whereas most of the models today that we think of we regard them as a mixture of the two but with a he and , depending on the type of or the piece of perception that we 're working on , we have either one the other . |
| 29 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 30 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |