Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another chapter , on the Kapos and the Special Squads , exhibits what must surely be judged an analytic understanding of the concentration-camp system set up by the Nazis — an understanding Eberstadt is inclined to deny him , believing that the camps are insufficiently construed in the Auschwitz book as an institutionalised anti-Semitism peculiar to Germany and politically-determined : she thinks it is soft of him to see them as belonging to a universal latent hostility to strangers . |
| 2 | ‘ Family physicians ’ enjoy the most extraordinary regard in our society : somewhere in our joint head we need to see them as knowing , honest , trustworthy , benign and caring folk — the truth of the matter being that they are as forgetful , spiteful and drunk as the next person — and as likely to grow old , lecherous and incompetent as anyone else . |
| 3 | Indeed , to see them as representing a kind of problem to which some solution might be found is to misunderstand their nature . |
| 4 | Also , the wardens of the Forest of Dean , and of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , were required to account directly at the Exchequer for the revenues of their bailiwicks , instead of farming them as had been the previous practice . |
| 5 | I thought that people were always disappointed in their old friends ' children , seeing them as diluted , distorted versions of their parents , not nearly as much fun and full of peculiar new ideas . |
| 6 | Sociologists and social anthropologists now have a clearer understanding of the nature of their propositions , seeing them as attempts to provide interpretative accounts of one social group 's ways of living to another group , which has a different set of values and assumptions . |
| 7 | Scientists found themselves able to explain how one event causes another in the physical world without supposing objects in that world to have all the qualities we perceive them as having . |
| 8 | Being new , they will not appear in the golist and the computer will not know whether or not to treat them as indexing terms . |
| 9 | For example , the major criticism which parents made of social workers concerned their poor communications , lack of openness and honesty , failure to value parents ' strengths and to treat them as equals , and a failure to involve parents in decisions . |
| 10 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |
| 11 | We can use affirmations to bring a positive , joyful attitude to life in general — either using them as needed during the day , or putting aside a few minutes every day to affirm our beliefs . |
| 12 | MY WIFE , Regina , is forever characterising me as possessing an almost childlike naivete — one attuned with a more idealistic time . |
| 13 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 14 | None of these major issues figures in Krashen 's scheme of things , so he presumably does not regard them as having any relation at all to the learning and teaching of languages . |
| 15 | This is the first show of Cooper 's dedicated exclusively to this medium that I have ever seen and it impresses me as providing the ideal means for her to achieve that tenuous balance between coy decorativeness and crude primitiveness which she uses successfully to convey the psychological weight of a figure 's gesture . |
| 16 | If we lose them as doubting teenagers by not stimulating them with well-made and provocative stories , what kind of audiences will we have left when they become adults ? ’ |
| 17 | He did n't mind socializing with his staff as long as it was on His terms and at their expense , but to meet them as equals on neutral ground was another matter . |
| 18 | If we may further generalize on these projects , we may describe them as setting up models of teaching methods and materials , thus tending to extend and develop user education methods , rather than analysing and criticizing existing methodologies and materials . |
| 19 | Most governments tax the profits of multinationals where firms report them as earned . |
| 20 | Later a gringo who was in the chief 's office described me as behaving ‘ like a demented Scotsman . ’ |
| 21 | Official Iraqi statements reported them as having bombed residential areas , a charge denied by Tehran . |
| 22 | It described them as aligned with Singh or with acting party president and former Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai . |
| 23 | The tribe developed a unique aptitude for horse-breeding , and Meriwether Lewis described them as having a method of gelding ‘ preferable to that practiced by ourselves ’ . |
| 24 | The judicial reforms were detailed on May 8 by Deputy Premier and Chairman of the State Control Commission Manush Myftiu , who described them as strengthening the observance of human rights . |
| 25 | A statement from the council 's environmental health department said the authority would rather see dogs cared for properly than have to catch them as strays . |
| 26 | Wester Ross and Mar Lodge , could , I fancy , fit most definitions of a wilderness , provided all humans entered them as equals , and on the same terms as their animal inhabitants — on foot , and unarmed . |
| 27 | She was still trying to cope with the matter when Oliver said they ought to leave if they were to meet him as planned . |
| 28 | Ten years earlier a cartoon by David Low had depicted him as rejecting an appeal for advice by Austen Chamberlain ( soon to reappear on the stage of Baldwin 's life ) and saying , ‘ But you are Foreign Secretary . ’ |
| 29 | At a press conference in Alma Ata , the Kazakh capital , on Aug. 17 , Kazakh news agency qoted him as saying that the agreements included provisions for new border crossing points and visa-free travel ; Kazakhstan was prepared to provide China with assistance in geological prospecting , ore enrichment , the chemical industry , laser and biological technology , and in building hydroelectric power stations . |
| 30 | Hungarian radio said on Oct. 22 that Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev 's spokesman had reported him as having condemned the 1956 Warsaw Treaty intervention in Hungary as a violation of international law . |