Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 2 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 3 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 4 | Murdoch immediately relaunched it as a tabloid and turned it against the flagship of its previous owners . |
| 5 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 6 | The simple , laughing islanders subsequently worshipped it as a god , much to the amusement of their more sophisticated neighbours . |
| 7 | Many fanciful explanations have been advanced to account for amber , but the Elder Pliny already diagnosed it as a fossil resin of pine and the same opinion was also entertained in China before the Tang period . |
| 8 | The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement . |
| 9 | There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig . |
| 10 | Araminta almost had it as a child , but it went fair — and then mouse , poor wretch ! ’ |
| 11 | The Regional Health Authority tonight described it as a tragic story . |
| 12 | Many people still regard it as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 13 | Why could n't this woman simply accept it as a fact of life , part of her make-up , such as not wanting to live in the country or swim in the sea . |
| 14 | By its success in limiting the scope of the Council of Europe , Britain effectively destroyed it as a potentially powerful engine of integration , but in so doing lost whatever control of the situation it had had . |
| 15 | Frame Technology also seems to be rapidly building on its growing acceptance with Next , Hewlett-Packard and Hell-Xenotron all adopting it as an OEM product . |
| 16 | On hotel bills , they do n't , but usually they put it , including local tax , or something like , they always use to show it separately at one time , it 's a percentage , but now , very often your bill just shows it as a , including local tax . |
| 17 | If a truth is complicated , a character remarks in An Accidental Man ( 1971 ) , ‘ you have to be an artist not to utter it as a lie ’ . |
| 18 | How Seymour ever made it as a film star is beyond me . |
| 19 | Females often produce it as a contact call for their cubs , particularly when they start going out on rambles together for the first time . |
| 20 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 21 | Some historians now view it as an attempt by the state to exercise more effective though subtle control over the lower classes . |
| 22 | Matzner and Tipler accordingly describe it as a ‘ fold singularity ’ . |
| 23 | The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation . |
| 24 | Close the door after you , Jean , and in the meantime please keep it as a secret . ’ |
| 25 | The Royal Commission concluded : ‘ Some advocates of an insurance system evidently see it as a mechanism for automatically increasing expenditure on the NHS as costs rise . |
| 26 | John presumably saw it as a figurative event which symbolised the purpose of Jesus ' ministry . |
| 27 | Although marketed as a bass by Fender , Leo personally viewed it as a baritone guitar , thus creating a confusion in the minds of the company and ultimately the guitar-buying public , a confusion which was to dog the instrument throughout its career . |
| 28 | This organism often grows in low numbers , and many laboratories still regard it as a contaminant . |
| 29 | Certain spiders also use it as a last resort . |