Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] it as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
| 2 | He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world . |
| 3 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 4 | And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it . |
| 5 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |