Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 2 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 3 | They regarded him as an oddity . |
| 4 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 5 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 6 | At first they regarded it as a prerequisite for the socialization of large-scale heavy industry . |
| 7 | After a time they used me as a courier : everybody else on the staff thought they were being watched . |
| 8 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 9 | Of course the Scandinavians have been skiing for about 4,500 years , but they used it as a means of travelling across country , not as an activity in itself , that has only happened in the last hundred years . |
| 10 | They used it as a football for a bit — until it fell apart , then they saw the blood and got scared . |
| 11 | They described themselves as a ‘ movement ’ for the simple reason that ‘ movements ’ tend to be better things ( implying progress and struggle for right against entrenched powers ) than ‘ establishments ’ or ‘ institutions ’ . |
| 12 | They described themselves as the forgotten people of Chile . |
| 13 | Oh there was this interview with Mick Jagger yeah but like it must have been written about cos they described him as a neanderthal rocker . |
| 14 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 15 | Both leaders admitted that several issues remained unresolved by the treaty , but they described it as a good basis for the development of future bilateral relations . |
| 16 | They reported it as a negligent discharge during a change of the guard . |
| 17 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 18 | They played it as a duet , perfectly teamed , at the fast pace the piece demanded , rollicking and dramatic . |
| 19 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 20 | It was offered for sale and although the Corporation , who were always short of depôt space , were approached , they rented it as a mortuary . |
| 21 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 22 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 23 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 24 | They took it as a snub that Down failed to field at anything approaching full strength and now want to show that they are a match for the real thing . |
| 25 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 26 | They saw him as a bulwark against a ‘ red menace ’ . |
| 27 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |
| 28 | They saw him as the ‘ honest broker ’ who might help negotiate a resolution of the Middle East 's problems . |
| 29 | They saw us as a natural choice to work with . |
| 30 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |