Example sentences of "his [noun sg] as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the man who enters the House at a later age who does not expect to get and perhaps does not want office , there is no point in continual exertions to catch the limelight and this is the kind of member who is particularly prone to regard his function as supporting his leaders . |
| 2 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 3 | He said that he saw his department as becoming " the second department of the environment " . |
| 4 | These include the natural desire for autonomy by the director who sees his institution as serving national and , indeed , international needs and the equally natural desire of the local council to retain control of what it has always historically regarded as its own institution whose main function should be to meet the needs of the region . |
| 5 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
| 6 | The paper quoted his wife as saying : " We hope our work within the ANC will … make up for the hurt caused to so many people by Dr Verwoerd . " |
| 7 | He had originally been appointed as a junior cultural attaché , and saw his rôle as influencing the Western view of the Islamic Revolution through the promotion of traditional Persian arts and crafts , the country 's rich historical treasures . |
| 8 | Sampaio , the PS secretary-general since 1989 , had presented the PS under his leadership as representing an alternative to the centre-right policies of the PSD in spite of the easy cohabitation of President Mário Soares , a former PS leader , with the PSD government . |
| 9 | It is evident that only 200 years ago the possibility of educating the deaf and dumb was still regarded by one of the most enlightened representatives of his age as bordering on the miraculous : |
| 10 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 11 | An example of the kind of popular song Adorno had in mind — though no doubt he thought of his argument as applying to all kinds — is ‘ Down Mexico Way ’ , a 1939 hit by the British song-writing team of Michael Carr and Jimmy Kennedy . |
| 12 | Jon sees his role as helping clients identify the type of home they want — one that fits their lifestyle . |
| 13 | And indeed I would argue that Linnaeus , in his role as classifying naturalist , did a better job at putting the varieties of mankind into their mutual relationships than did idealist philosophers like Rousseau and Jefferson . |
| 14 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 15 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 16 | So Mr Clarke routinely hailed his bill as giving the NHS ‘ a new lease of life ’ . |
| 17 | However , he does see the life of one who really understands his situation as giving a central place to what he calls ‘ the intellectual love of God ’ . |
| 18 | But the Transport Minister , who today tried his hand as driving the new train , said that did n't mean the route was under threat of closure . |
| 19 | Mouse suddenly thought of his stomach as having a big red circular target on it with HIT THERE printed in the centre . |
| 20 | The right-angled Swastika represents the electron , or Siva in his aspect as transforming , evolutionary agent . |
| 21 | Eliot , thanks to Twain , is able to see his childhood as containing , in Durkheim 's phrase , The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . |
| 22 | Wordsworth regarded the Cumberland of his childhood as possessing some of the Rousseauesque characteristics of such a society : |
| 23 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 24 | In Britain the representative bureaucrat involved in space has a non-technical background and sees his task as restraining the expensive ambitions of the ‘ space lobby ’ . |