Example sentences of "it as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead we can see it as completing the specification of which operation is to be performed . |
| 2 | As our awareness of this quality of light increases , we may perceive it as centring on another figure — an inner or outer ‘ Lady of Light ’ — or as an identifiable principle to which we can begin to relate . |
| 3 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 4 | For instance , a page with an illustration on it — a solid page with a picture — the men charge as solid type and if the page is a little bigger than an ordinary page , they will charge extra for putting that page in , besides charging it as setting up so many thousand letters … |
| 5 | Arab states including Algeria , Jordan , Sudan , Syria and Yemen strongly condemned the plan , regarding it as setting a dangerous precedent in the region and also as signalling the effective three-way partitioning of Iraq into Kurdish , Sunni and Shia blocs . |
| 6 | Mrs. Carlill saw the advertisement , purchased a smoke ball , used it as instructed for the specified period and nevertheless caught ‘ flu . |
| 7 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |
| 8 | The search for a synthesis had angered supporters of the Shatalin plan , Yeltsin on Sept. 1 dismissing it as trying to " mate a hedgehog with a snake " , and adding his voice to the growing public clamour for Ryzhkov and his government to resign . |
| 9 | A sum like this , though , would eat such a hole in it as to jeopardize his ordinary work . |
| 10 | It is therefore in my view taking too much out of this case to read it as supporting the broad proposition that payment in response to an unlawful demand by an official is ipso facto recoverable . |
| 11 | Nowhere in my diary do I mention this physical discomfort , and even now I ca n't remember it as amounting to pain , although I do remember the school doctor drawing the matron 's attention to the extensive bruising on the softer parts of my body . |
| 12 | ‘ To try to understand the experience of another it is necessary to dismantle the world as seen from one 's place within it , and to re-assemble it as seen from his . |
| 13 | It would , I consider , be wrong to read it as requiring that in every case where a witness is shown to have made a previous statement inconsistent with his evidence at the trial , the jury should be directed that such evidence should be regarded as unreliable : see Driscoll v. The Queen ( 1977 ) 51 A.L.J.R. 731 , 740 , per Gibbs J. , with whom Barwick C.J. agreed , at p. 734 . |
| 14 | But its conception of the international economy is different from that of world-system theories because it sees it as created and conditioned by the rivalry between different nation-states . |
| 15 | Grammar , perfectly understood , enables us , not only to express our meaning fully and clearly , but so to express it as to defy the ingenuity of man to give to our words any other meaning than that which we ourselves intend them to express . |
| 16 | To say that a given rule is valid is to recognize it as passing all the tests provided by the rule of recognition and so as a rule of the system . |
| 17 | Proof read the completed advertisement and have the partner initial it as confirmed |
| 18 | The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven . |
| 19 | The position nevertheless remains that the possibility exists of parliamentary legislation inconsistent with the 1972 Act being preferred by an English court under the doctrine of implied repeal and , even if this possibility were removed , there would always remain the possibility of an express repeal , for notwithstanding this impressive accumulation of law and practice there is no shortage of political figures who insist that the sovereignty of the Parliament of the United Kingdom stands unimpaired , and plenty who are pledged to use that power to extract the United Kingdom from the coils of Europe in which they see it as enmeshed . |
| 20 | I just thought of it as learning what other people have already thought of a subject … physics seemed so much more dynamic somehow . |
| 21 | This is the simplest component of legal aid , but alterations and adjustments to it make it best to think of it as encompassing a number of different types of help . |
| 22 | The " Green Movement " is not necessarily the friend of religion — it can displace it as understood within the great religious traditions , giving rise to a neo-paganism which challenges them . |
| 23 | It is certainly true that , as the company puts it , Quorn is ‘ a distant relative of the mushroom ’ , but it would be equally true to describe it as related to mould , toadstools and dry rot . |
| 24 | Yeah what sort of problem is it when you , say a kid broke the window like they broke ours , what sort of problem is it as opposed to these ? |
| 25 | done it as opposed |
| 26 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 27 | Whereas most theories of the state view it as providing certain services which promote the welfare of the society , they see it as an instrument of repression which is used by the ruling class to maintain the status quo . |
| 28 | We could see it as providing an insurance fund against loss caused by ( usually ) unintentional failure to keep within the bounds set by the principles of public law . |
| 29 | If that was the discovery Francis had made and mentioned in his diary it might have caused him distress but it was hard to see it as providing a motive for his murder . |
| 30 | B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question . |