Example sentences of "to [pers pn] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All comes from the Bible , which is offered to them as proof of the truth of what they are told , and gives them the impression that both extremes of behaviour are correct and righteous . |
| 2 | Similarly fixated is the dying man , known to them as Singapore Sling , who — in flashback — arrives at the house looking for his missing lover . |
| 3 | The companies often preferred slaves to white skilled labour and as a result slaves aspired to skilled positions which were later denied to them as freedmen . |
| 4 | The American geneticist Curt Stern was the first to distinguish between these two ways in which a change in a gene can alter the resulting structure : he referred to them as changes in ‘ prepattern ’ and in ‘ competence ’ . |
| 5 | Two major problems had to be solved ; Bethe refers to them as Part I and Part 2 . |
| 6 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 7 | The hunting , fishing and shooting which Diana detests will be held up to them as badges of manhood . |
| 8 | Y you refer to them as mile stone inspectors . |
| 9 | Josephus , who was present at the siege , refers to them as Sicarii . |
| 10 | Like many such groups , they have acquired a patina of legend : during the nineteenth century there were those who referred to them as Druid stones , others who thought they were of Roman origin , and yet others who asserted they must be the gravestones of Danish invaders vanquished by Banquo and Macbeth . |
| 11 | The crews later referred to them as basket-cars or shower-baths , from their open fronts . |
| 12 | Erm Colonel has supported very actively the current Three-Ninetieth Missile Wing like he supported us and he is respectfully known to them as Uncle Joe . |
| 13 | The great majority of consumers get their fuel on credit , in that they pay monthly or quarterly in arrears , though of course the cost of this credit is not charged separately to them as interest . |
| 14 | Black kids look to them as blueprints for their own development . |
| 15 | Mr Ryan said : ‘ We hope the success of sports personalities like Chris Boardman will be our success , and that young people will look up to them as role models who are against drugs . ’ |
| 16 | A delegation of ten Nonconformist ministers even visited the bishops in the Tower on 10 June , saying " they could not but adhear to them as men constant in the Protestant faith " . |
| 17 | 3 It hopes to allow , and induce , students to work at the pace best suited to them as individuals , rather than having to proceed at the standard class rate . |
| 18 | For humanities students , as for science students , the values that attracted them to a subject were values which were also important to them as individuals . |
| 19 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 20 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 21 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 22 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 23 | Being ‘ in on it ’ , so to speak , had dissolved fear ; and death , for the first time , seemed as natural to me as birth . |
| 24 | And then we talked of more interesting things , things by now as familiar to me as legend , in a sort of litany , each speaking in turn . |
| 25 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 26 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 27 | ‘ I went to class to meet friends , dancing was secondary and the social side was as much if not more important to me as competition . ’ |
| 28 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 29 | How much easier it would be if you could refer to me as Signor Sabatini , yes ? ’ |
| 30 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |