Example sentences of "it as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The success it as achieved , and continues to achieve , highlights the remarkable contribution being made by the company in the protection of the environment . |
| 32 | Georgian Justice Minister Dzhoni Khetsuriani had called on Aug. 31 for the dissolution of the parliament , describing it as elected on a " discriminatory electoral law " of July 1991 , which gave 28 of the 65 seats to the Abkhazians , actually a minority in Abkhazia [ see p. 39058 ] , while the Georgians had 26 and others 11 . |
| 33 | Second , Holyoak attacks the monumentality of The Galleries which , in his words ‘ is the latest in the big developers ’ move to privatise city centres — to eat up public space and reshape it as internalised , homogenised , security-patrolled private space' . |
| 34 | ‘ I see it as culminating in an annual event , perhaps a convention and a festival which would tie in with other events like Africa Oye . |
| 35 | We shall misunderstand nomadic society if we think of it as composed of tribes whose membership is determined exclusively by blood relationships . |
| 36 | For we have already seen that there is no reason why , along with the mature elements of the superego which serve the interests of adjustment to reality , immature , primitive elements should not also become externalized in those aspects of the state which represent it as nurturing , protecting and providing some measure of wish fulfilment for the most regressive desires . |
| 37 | They would far rather think of it as realising their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 38 | Hence the fact that his fellow economists , who regarded it as mistaken , were at great pains to refute it on theoretical grounds . |
| 39 | Given that object recognition is a categorical process , in that one does n't recognize each individual chair one sees but identifies it as belonging to the same category as other chairs one has seen , this suggests that the inferotemporal cortex has a major role to play in object recognition . |
| 40 | ‘ Few would recognise it as belonging to a noble family disgraced some forty years earlier . |
| 41 | Of the subversive claims for gay machismo , Bersani is even more sceptical , since he regards it as involving not a parodic repudiation of straight machismo , but a profound respect for it . |
| 42 | ‘ The potential cost to Woolwich of refusing to pay in terms of damage to reputation and interest liabilities may have been commercially unacceptable but I can not regard it as involving duress on the part of the revenue . |
| 43 | Moreover , the ambiguous meaning of ‘ caring ’ , especially the unarticulated elision of ‘ caring for ’ with ‘ caring about ’ , adds important emotional overtones to these tasks : ‘ the dominant cultural perception of caring sees it as involving essentially female qualities ’ ( Baldwin and Twigg , 1991 , p. 123 ) . |
| 44 | In essence , software plays the role of an electronic messenger : it delivers information , manipulating it as desired , to computer users . |
| 45 | ‘ We 'll take it as said , then , shall we ? ’ said Charlie . |
| 46 | Do n't think of it as leaving . |
| 47 | He saw it as filled with lines of force , whose arrangements permitted or prohibited the passage of an electric current ; this was itself force rather than any material ‘ juice ’ . |
| 48 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 49 | Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos . |
| 50 | This causes anger in the mother who interprets it as acting up and being naughty . |
| 51 | The motion which I am anxious to put before the full plenary session of the European Parliament is in fact a motion to ban lead from petrol completely , not merely to reduce it as stated in the article . , |
| 52 | The only way the trust can be given effect is by construing it as charged on the intestate heir in favour of some other person . |
| 53 | Yet another view regards it as formed in a similar manner from the gonopods of the 10th abdominal segment . |
| 54 | Obscenity ‘ represents a much more fundamental assault on men and women and what it means to be human … [ it distorts ] human personality by depicting it as deprived of those characteristics which are essential to humanity [ since ] common to all obscene productions is the degradation of persons and of relations between persons ’ . |
| 55 | ‘ Meaning ’ atheists do not make the claim that language about God is incommunicable either — in their case because they do not regard it as emanating from a philosophical No Go area labelled ‘ metaphysics ’ that is pronounced to be beyond the bounds of sense . |
| 56 | Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief . |
| 57 | Clara often thought that Mrs Maugham 's attitudes towards the television typified her whole moral outlook ; before acquiring it , she had considered it infinitely vulgar and debased ; after acquiring it she considered all those without it as highbrows , intellectual snobs , or paupers , while still managing to retain her scorn for all those who had had it before the precisely tasteful , worthy and perceptive moment at which she had herself succumbed to its charms . |
| 58 | Of course , it is natural to examine a text in the light of what we know of ambient domains — its author , the period in which it was written , and so on — and to regard it as exemplifying or representing something of more general interest . |
| 59 | Most readers probably take it as explained by Tolkien 's preceding remark , ‘ To their man-children [ hobbits ] usually gave names that had no meaning at all in their daily language … |
| 60 | His disciple Van Helmont described it as radiating within and around a person like a luminous sphere . |