Example sentences of "of this [noun] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A useful approach is to think of this document as the company 's constitution , giving the company power to act in certain ways and limiting its powers in others . |
| 2 | I thought of this hyla as the nymph Echo , a dryad , an invisible sweet voice . |
| 3 | The astonished porter disposes of this body as the previous one , but returns for his payment only to find , apparently , the corpse waiting for him again . |
| 4 | Readers will doubtless be able to identify the source of this advice as the work of Robin Lakoff : work which is highly contentious because of its speculativeness , lack of supporting evidence and hostility to nonaggressive speech styles . |
| 5 | We might think of this variable as the retail price index and label its current value P , but it could be any economic variable . |
| 6 | We often think of this environment as the outside world , the world of predators and climate . |
| 7 | Mr Ronald ( RT ) Jones will be remembered by many readers of this magazine as the much-respected Permanent Secretary of the Guild of Students during the 'forties , 'fifties and 'sixties . |
| 8 | Scott lists the key institutions of this group as the Conservative Party , the Church of England , the public schools and ancient universities , the legal profession , Guards regiments , London clubs and country-house life ( 1982 , p. 159 ) . |
| 9 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 10 | Stephanie thought of this phase as the deprivation of privacy , not contemplating the possibility that privacy was gone forever . |
| 11 | Bekenstein suggested that one could interpret the logarithm of this number as the entropy of a black hole . |
| 12 | BETTER KNOWN to most readers of this paper as the label responsible for Headbutt , Mega City Four , Bizarre Inc and J Saul Kane 's various aliases , Vinyl Solution are the UK 's forgotten rap indie . |
| 13 | It is convenient to regard the open-loop amplifier of this oscillator as the noninverting combination of the operational amplifier and negative feedback resistors R 1 and R 2 , so that the open-loop gain is . |