Example sentences of "they as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be harsh , however , to stigmatise them as deadwood . |
| 2 | Additionally , they feared the full development of a national health service , viewed by them as unacceptable socialism . |
| 3 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 4 | Perhaps we could instigate a national drive to recycle on a grand scale — from restaurants , BR etc — and sell them as a peat alternative ! |
| 5 | Certainly the social sciences are seen to be the arbiters of revolutionary change which might somehow dismantle the police institution and its processes , and this has led it to negate the reforming social scientists , keeping them as outsiders beyond the system . |
| 6 | We could purchase our own houses while they lived in police colonies , denied the privilege of house purchase until they had fifteen years ' service ; this classified them as ‘ peasants , serfs , living in the feudal world of tithed cottages ’ . |
| 7 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 8 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 9 | I say ‘ modified ’ because you have to use them as attacks in themselves . |
| 10 | Lovers use them as secrets to reveal . |
| 11 | Significantly , he adduced the work of the American poet Wallace Stevens at this point , a man torn between the profession of law and the poetic muse , whose view of lost faith and a ‘ disconnected ’ tradition imbued his poetry with a wistfulness and a challenge that was taken very seriously by Leonard and Layton ; or , perhaps , viewed by them as a satisfactory replacement . |
| 12 | The Hasidim idealised them , regarded them as intermediaries between God and his world . |
| 13 | For example , you can put down hoops or ball cans in certain areas of the court and use them as targets . |
| 14 | But he , whose contribution to the history of these mountains now matches theirs , could not then mingle with them as an equal . |
| 15 | It also manages to tie the Alps together as one whole , treating them as a range of mountains rather than just a list of routes . |
| 16 | On his death-bed Stepan Vcrkhovensky returns to the swine of the gospel story and paraphrases the devils which enter them as a disease afflicting all Russia . |
| 17 | Those who are addicted to the vertiginous rhetoric where language tells us nothing about reality , merely about other language , and where signifiers float in endless unattached free play , are apt to be contemptuous of demonstration and logic , seeing them as forms of bourgeois intellectual oppression . |
| 18 | It is distinct from the methods of the old New Criticism , which though believing that lyric poems were dramatic utterances , still read them as the utterance of a single voice . |
| 19 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 20 | Certainly in recent years Pound 's interest in mystery-cults has been more than antiquarian ; in ‘ was Erigena ours ? ’ he asks whether the philosopher Scotus Erigena was one of the Eleusinian brotherhood , and ‘ ours ’ can be given full weight — Noel Stock goes so far as to claim ( op. cit. p.22 ) that some of the obscurity of these later Cantos is deliberate and arcane — ‘ he writes about them as an initiate in words that are both ‘ published and not published ’ … ’ . |
| 21 | You have to like them as feet . |
| 22 | Michael Abbell worked at the Justice Department for 17 years until 1984 , the last five of them as first the director and later deputy director of the Office of International Affairs . |
| 23 | Dublin regarded the revelations with dismay , but also saw them as an opportunity to renew and step up its criticisms of the regiment . |
| 24 | To me delicatessen means herring , 1,001 varieties of herring , but I did not always regard them as such if only because I virtually lived on them . |
| 25 | Along the Thai border , the Khmer Rouge leaders can function with impunity , courtesy of the Thai Army which has supported them as its most effective weapon against Vietnam , Thailand 's largest security concern . |
| 26 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 27 | You waited outside in the street for up to two hours , and then , when you got to the box office , the passes were heaped in no known order , and Tory office girls scrabbled through piles of them as if digging for hidden bones . |
| 28 | Earning money was rated more highly by students wanting to work in legal services than by the average student and London is selected by 59 per cent of them as the region they would most like to work in . |
| 29 | At the heart of the problem is the fact that the Government is selling off 10 different companies but presenting them as a single package . |
| 30 | As I approached I recognised one of them as a Medic from Brigade H.Q As we chatted together , I could see a number of dead Commandos lying on the lawn in front of the Chateau . |