Example sentences of "[pers pn] as [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Avitus of Vienne in a letter to Gundobad describes him as weeping over the deaths of his brothers . |
| 2 | Sam Torrance is not in the slightest bothered that his super-long putter which he wields under his chin makes some describe him as looking like the Dyna-Rod man . |
| 3 | It is true that right at the end , in October 1097 , when Anselm was on the point of leaving England , Eadmer reports him as saying to the Canterbury monks : ‘ I go willingly , trusting in God 's mercy that my journey will do something for the liberty of the Church in future times . ’ |
| 4 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |
| 5 | As has been said , Sam and Frodo experience it as thinking for a moment they have died and gone to Heaven , when they wake up on the field of Cormallen . |
| 6 | In view of the approach taken by the courts to this implied term it is probably fair to regard it as imposing on the seller a separate obligation to pass to the buyer a good title to the goods . |
| 7 | It is suggested that whichever phrase is used , the court would be reluctant to construe it as imposing on the parties a positive obligation to negotiate . |
| 8 | They perceive it as standing for the interest of society as a whole , and are constrained by this ideological view to tolerate its infringements of their sectarian interests , providing that these are not too severe . |
| 9 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 10 | The measure was not the subject of a specific UN resolution , although its proponents saw it as coming within the scope of general principles of international humanitarian law , and as providing a safer environment for Western reconnaissance aircraft to monitor Iraqi compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 688 of April 1991 against " repression of the Iraqi civilian population " [ see p. 38127 ] . |
| 11 | The story quotes me as saying of the Rousseau painting in question , that its ‘ present whereabouts ( are ) unknown ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | No official reason was given for the dismissals but commentators interpreted them as adding to the shift of power from the police to the Army . |