Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a 23-year-old , Stan Whittaker was one of Butlin 's first clients in 1936 , having met Butlin himself as a customer in the early thirties at Skegness Amusement Park . |
| 2 | Many of those studies use the States themselves as their organizing units , if for no other reason than the convenience that data are readily available for mapping at that scale . |
| 3 | This meant that Virgin had the right to publish his songs , but no rights on Sting himself as a performer : his group , the Police , were signed as recording artists to A&M . |
| 4 | Throughout the war ( except during the worst days of the blitz ) the Gallup Poll had been assessing the popularity of the government , and of Churchill himself as Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Peter talks to his brother Alan who as the holder of a CPC ( national ) is aware of the basic workings of the redundancy payments scheme under current employment legislation . |
| 6 | A sad little grave stood by the side of the church , with some lines by Yeats himself as an epitaph . |
| 7 | I remember the first production of The corn is Green with Sybil Thorndyke playing the hopeful headmistress and Emlyn Williams himself as the talented Welsh miner . |
| 8 | With this gadget a skilled man could make eight hundred chair legs a week , which he delivered to factories in London and other centres where the complete chairs were assembled , until the rise of High Wycombe itself as the centre of furniture making , early in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Alix bought some the next day , on her free half day in Cambridge before she took the Bletchley route to her Oxford interview ( for she was a clever girl , Alix ) — but she never dared to apply it , save in the privacy of her own room , until she went to Cambridge herself as a bona fide student the following autumn . |
| 10 | By then , Jack Nicholson had , after a lot of heart-searching , agreed he was going to make a movie out of Larner 's book for BBS , with Larner himself as joint scriptwriter . |
| 11 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 12 | These were , first , our freedom as responsible moral agents , for the ‘ ought ’ of the categorical imperative implies the ‘ can ’ of our ability to obey it or to refuse to obey it ; second , immortality , which brings with it the prospect of reward and punishment , and the advance towards higher and fuller good than can be attained in this life ; third , God himself as the supreme Good , the ultimate guarantor of the moral order of the universe . |
| 13 | We , Christian communicators from 14 African countries , are committed to the proclamation of the Kingdom of God to the whole of humanity through mass media and other means of communication , following the example of God Himself as a communicator Who has revealed Himself in His Son , Jesus Christ . |
| 14 | The itinerary included parts of Czechoslovakia and Austria and a day trip into Hungary , with Martin Randall himself as the lecturer . |
| 15 | ( Note that on subsequent process creations , you will probably find it more convenient to use LSTRAIN.DAT itself as the template , as it will be similar to the configuration of the new process ) . |
| 16 | In the days following , press reports started to appear that I , and indeed Ken Clarke who as Minister of State for Health was still outside the Cabinet , were very unhappy about the new emphasis of policy . |
| 17 | James Paul saw the National Deaf and Dumb Society as the principal backers of establishing a network of missions for the deaf throughout the country , and the Society did indeed succeed in establishing the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf at Kilmarnock in 1881 , with Paul himself as missioner , and the Stockton-on-Tees Mission in 1882 . |
| 18 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 19 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 20 | He was marrying one of America 's richest heiresses , who was , Stair had drunkenly informed him , ‘ As ugly as a pug dog , ’ solely for her money , and was proposing to bed Madame Rachel herself as a preliminary to his marriage at St Margaret 's , Westminster , the following morning , the biggest society wedding of the year . |