Example sentences of "[pron] as [verb] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The motion which I am anxious to put before the full plenary session of the European Parliament is in fact a motion to ban lead from petrol completely , not merely to reduce it as stated in the article . , |
| 2 | The intrusive authorial voice exemplified in this passage , and generally typical of the classic novel — the voice that confides , comments , explains and sometimes scolds — the voice to which we rather casually give the name that appears on the title-page ( Henry Fielding , Charles Dickens , George Eliot , or whoever ) is the most obvious sign that these writers saw themselves as engaged in an act of communication with their readers . |
| 3 | In resisting Home Rule and arguing for tariffs , Unionists had seen themselves as acting in the interests of nation and empire against a government that had the interests of neither at heart . |
| 4 | Nor do fans see themselves as engaging in a kind of working-class resistance to the commercialization of football in any straightforward sense . |
| 5 | The metaphor is apt , as Palestinians regard themselves as engaging in a process of giving birth to their independent Palestinian state . |
| 6 | The coins show that contemporary Romans kept returning to the iconography not just of war , but of conquest , and that they presented themselves as following in the footsteps of Alexander ; this is an important contribution to our understanding of their aspirations at the time . |
| 7 | Both of these lads had bits and pieces on their clothes and bodies that placed them as killed in the house where they were buried . |
| 8 | They seem to have peaked in the winter when nature itself can be grey enough , or maybe I just remember them as peaking in the winter . |