Example sentences of "[noun] as [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackson 's pop singing sister Latoya was quoted on Friday as saying she had warned her brother months ago to end his friendships with young boys . |
| 2 | Austrian television quoted a witness in Timisoara as saying he had seen lorries carrying away ‘ cubic metres of bodies ’ . |
| 3 | She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it . |
| 4 | ‘ But we do not proceed on some of the grounds mentioned at the bar , such as the effect of the plaintiff 's alteration of the instrument as making it void , or that the defendant thereby lost his right to contribution from the joint makers of the note ; nor on any doctrine as to the relation of principal and surety . |
| 5 | The investors do not perceive the warranties as providing them with a course of action , but as a way for management to confirm the business plan and the facts of the accountants ' report ; and provide as much information as possible about the business to be purchased . |
| 6 | On nationalisation , this local democratic pressure was removed , and most Boards took the statute as meaning they should do their best to extend supplies to rural areas even if they incurred losses in doing so which had to be made up from surpluses elsewhere . |
| 7 | She 'd heard of an opening for a showroom model at one of the better fashion houses on the Via Monte-napoleone ; despite the agency 's insistence on scouting all jobs itself , she had gone around to the house and applied for the position herself , listing International Models as representing her . |
| 8 | Or : ‘ Two meals is OK but if there 's a club afterwards , then any more counts as stringing him along . ’ |
| 9 | There had been conflicting stories as to whether Anthony had been intended , Wells having gone on record as saying he had been conceived in a moment of carelessness , professor Gordon Ray , who edited the West-Wells correspondence , as saying it was a deliberate attempt by Wells to keep Rebecca with him , and Rebecca herself as saying , ‘ Wells cheated me of all but one child . ’ |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the company seems to have lost its way of late — even Mr Sugar is on record as saying he has little idea of where the next 1512 is going to come from . |
| 11 | However , with the outbreaks of that disease in cattle beginning to plateau , Keith Meldrum , the Ministry of Agriculture 's chief veterinarian , has gone on record as saying he expects EC countries to start lifting the ban towards the end of the year . |
| 12 | Sir Michael Clapham described the process as subjecting them to ‘ regular viva voce examination ’ . |
| 13 | If so , say how you see retirement as affecting you , and try to discuss how you can organise more time together , balanced with time spent on independent interests . |
| 14 | Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ? |
| 15 | ‘ Until now I had no-one to tell things to and that 's almost as much fun as learning them . ’ |
| 16 | Thinking about Christmas was almost as much fun as celebrating it . |
| 17 | These ideas may seem fanciful , but Price justifies such speculation as leading us to consider and test new hypotheses which might otherwise not have been considered . |
| 18 | This sense of woman 's uncleanness as separating her both from men and from the realm of holiness is developed in the Levitical codes : |
| 19 | Also yesterday , South Korea 's intelligence chief was quoted in the Chosun Ilbo newspaper as saying he had an intelligence report that North Korea had planned to conduct nuclear tests last year and had up to 22 kilograms ( 48lb ) of weapons-grade plutonium . |
| 20 | Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis . |
| 21 | Moscow News quoted an Interior Ministry colonel as saying it was impossible even for convoys with a military escort to cross into Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 22 | We regard such a theory as providing us , as anthropologists , with a concept of useful explanatory power . |
| 23 | I see this marvellous mechanism as giving us the certainty of immortality , for the impact of our thoughts and personality becomes imprinted in the brains of other men and they will continue in the minds of future generations . |
| 24 | I had thought of the Hobbses as shielding me like parents , but the nursery comfort was illusory . |
| 25 | This moral goodness was not exactly out there as an actual property of the benevolent feelings and actions which presented themselves to an observer as possessing it . |
| 26 | Germany interpreted her constitution as forbidding her to participate in the military operation , and Belgium refused to sell ammunition to the British army . |
| 27 | If the military do n't use the area often , they can not cause as much distress to the natural environment as opening it to the public would . |
| 28 | The individualist interest is served by the assumption that people see the constraints as binding them and act accordingly . |
| 29 | I do n't somehow see Wendy as having me that way . |
| 30 | A third way in which the courts have moved from considerations of procedural form to substance , is by interpreting the concept of fairness as allowing them to consider , in a general sense , whether the decision reached was fair and reasonable . |