Example sentences of "appear to [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Heredia wants to be poetic and hard ; the hardness appears to him as a virtue in the poetic . |
| 3 | It seems probable that the high metabolic rate of such diminutive creatures is a reflection of what appears to us as a high-speed mental appreciation of events . |
| 4 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
| 5 | Having chosen such a one , he appeared to her as a vision of a white elephant , and conception took place as he struck her womb with his trunk . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |