Example sentences of "[prep] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you think of it as model of whole world , as great cathedrals were said to be , or physicists ' models today ? |
| 2 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 3 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 4 | Think of it as the woodworker 's equivalent to Dungeons and Dragons . |
| 5 | In addition Lloyds , having cashed his cheque , later demanded a photocopy of it as proof he had made the payment . |
| 6 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ I think of it as a stuffy old family that wants to celebrate the birthday of an aged aunt . |
| 8 | Just think of it as a loss leader and keep your fingers crossed . |
| 9 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |
| 10 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 11 | If discontinuity is the case , there is the alleged distinctiveness of recent crowd behaviour and explanations of it as part of a general transformation of the urban working class since 1945 to consider . |
| 12 | He was wearing his captain 's uniform with meticulous correctness but with a consciously satirical air , ‘ as though he thought of it as fancy dress . ’ |
| 13 | Over the next two months , we will be subjected to a barrage of argument , statistics and plain propaganda from Woolworths ( yes , call it Kingfisher if you want , but most people will still think of it as Woolies ) and from Dixons . |
| 14 | Just think of it as bad luck . ’ |
| 15 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 16 | Or rather , they would now be on their way back , since they had decided ( Franca could imagine the little conversation , she thought of it as a ‘ little ’ conversation ) to stay away only one night , instead of the three nights originally planned . |
| 17 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 18 | Now this is not strictly a soul food recipe , but since Philadelphia is my home town and my family has eaten its way through tons of this , I always think of it as northern soul food . |
| 19 | His recent history — which sounded as remote when he spoke of it as a previous incarnation — had enacted a traditional surfing scenario he was n't particularly proud of . |
| 20 | ‘ When you come to think of it , ’ she said afterwards , ‘ if you think of it as training , it must be far more toughening than those softy hot baths . |
| 21 | She speaks of it as a tremendously rich and enlarging experience , ‘ Friendship expressed at its very best , I think ’ . |
| 22 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 23 | In my mood of delight , I thought of it as a beautiful idea for these were roads that go nowhere , nowhere that could interest men . |
| 24 | He wrote of it as , ‘ My vacation , my season of growth and expansion ; a prolonged youth ’ . |
| 25 | Indeed , Alain Sroufe at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota , urges that we stop trying to find the response in the child 's physiology , and learn instead to think of it as an ‘ organisational construct ’ , an economic way in which the experimenter can characterise the pattern of behavioural linkages between the child and its environment . |
| 26 | Attitudes to homosexuality and lesbianism in our society range from complete rejection to acceptance of it as a valid alternative to a heterosexual preference . |
| 27 | Thus it is that the extraction of the origin of the first fragment of ‘ goodness ’ and the indelibly labelling of it as such , led to the creation of an entity with a presumed existence and endowed by mankind with the power to hold inviolate the human decisions on ‘ goodness ’ — which will continue to be taken for as long as life continues . |
| 28 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 29 | On specification , think of it as a Turbo R without the turbo : a firmer , sportier saloon for people who do their own driving . |
| 30 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |