Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
2 | The Labour party has never chosen it as a subject . |
3 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
4 | Then they sold the old market to Citicorp which set about restoring it as a trading floor , aimed at meeting the demand generated by Big Bang . |
5 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
6 | But 95 per cent of the studies he reviews deal with the assessment , causes , and treatment of homosexuality , and in doing so , continue indirectly to define it as a problem . |
7 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
8 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
9 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
10 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
11 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
12 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
13 | In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so . |
14 | She began to affect , in History lessons , an interest in the Soviet Union : such was the climate of opinion in this progressive boarding school in the north of England in the early 1950s , amongst the sons and daughters of tradesmen and doctors , industrialists and university lecturers , dentists and estate agents , lawyers and farmers , that her interest was regarded with awe and alarm or with frank disbelief , by those who did not dismiss it as the affectation which , in fact , at this stage it was . |
15 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
16 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
17 | For example , it could be argued that ‘ photograph ’ may be divided into two independent words , ‘ photo ’ and ‘ graph ’ ; yet we usually do not regard it as a compound , but as an affix word . |
18 | But no one has yet been able to identify ‘ extra ’ income , and enterprises do not show it as a separate category . |
19 | We do not promote it as a deprived area where there are financial incentives ’ |
20 | ‘ It is a healthy environment — we do not promote it as a deprived area where there are lots of financial incentives . ’ |
21 | Though Abraham receives the promise of the land of Canaan in Genesis 12 and , by God 's terms , takes possession of it in the next chapter , his descendants do not enter it as a people until the book of Joshua , and the business of conquest is not finished till David is secure on the throne half-way through the second Book of Samuel . |
22 | However desirable it is that they receive training , many do not see it as a practical proposition . |
23 | It is a powerful alkaloidal poison , but the Zande do not see it as an ordinary poison but as an autonomous mystical power capable of issuing decisions which are taken very seriously indeed . |
24 | Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids . |
25 | I found this mistake hurtful : 'more specifically , I did n't regard it as a source of amusement . |
26 | But the phone was cut off , the DHSS did n't regard it as a necessity . |
27 | ‘ I did n't mean it as a compliment . ’ |
28 | so I went and saw him and he goes I did n't mean it as a slut as , as in a promiscuous woman |
29 | they did n't express it as a half of twice they just cancelled it through |
30 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |