Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see a parent — someone he thinks of as being all-powerful and ever-capable — reacting in such a way must induce in the child the belief that whatever it is that is causing such terror must be dreadful indeed and that he , therefore , should be equally terrified . |
| 2 | Mr Martin 's barely-concealed rage at losing what he thinks of as his little girl ( and having to pay through the nose for the festivities ) is amusingly conveyed . |
| 3 | Some ideas can readily be recalled to consciousness , and these Freud thinks of as in the preconscious . |
| 4 | Its importance , however , is not that we know when doubt becomes unbelief ( for only God knows this and human attempts to say so can be cruel ) , but that we should be clear about where doubt leads to as it grows into unbelief . |
| 5 | Oh I know , service specification it fits into as well . |
| 6 | The notion that officials or ‘ bureaucrats ’ have a vested interest in the expansion of the public sector is a well accepted one ; it is reflected in C. Northcote Parkinson 's Law that ‘ work expands to as to fill the time for its completion ’ , as does manpower , and a persistent theme in the popular British comedy series Yes Minister was the importance to top bureaucrats of maintaining large numbers of officials to do nothing particularly useful . |
| 7 | Er with a small C , a large C as well erm it belongs to as well . |
| 8 | All of this has changed , first through such departures as day-release apprenticeships , second through what Gauntlett darkly refers to as ‘ explaining the facts of life to the staff . ’ |
| 9 | Well my Lord I must say it had occurred to me erm that certainly on the basis on which I 'm contending for damages to be assessed with the plaintiffs and it is completely irrelevant , er er many of the matters to which the defendant 's expert goes to as to the damages and the extent to which they were caused by the negligence of the defendant , the breach of duty . |
| 10 | Dad 's when he goes to as long as they always . |
| 11 | Such a restructuring of the education system is something that Warnock ( 1988 ) points to as being long overdue , but she makes only fleeting references to the implications that this might have for special needs . |
| 12 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 13 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 14 | And in the case of a poet like Pound , who presses upon as as ‘ truths ’ so many readings of history which in fact are dangerous errors , truths like these are precious . |