Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara . |
| 2 | Financial problems aside , the company had already received the kiss of death in that , two years ago , the Department of Trade and Industry chose to feature it as a prime example of the Enterprise Initiative . |
| 3 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 4 | However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab . |
| 5 | ‘ Had you and Mrs Marshall planned to use it as a weekend retreat , perhaps ? |
| 6 | The Shah had imagined it as a modern version of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 , where the rulers of the world could meet and discuss matters of great import . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 8 | The great bulk of Liberal and Marxist writing about war had presented it as an activity which no radical could support and which all must fight to prevent . |
| 9 | Greenwich had begun producing a return on the money spent to launch it as an astronomical and nautical centre well before that : in the early eighteenth century French charts were still better than any others , but the table of wind movements , trade winds , and monsoons that Halley published in 1686 was a great help to navigation . |
| 10 | With the outbreak of hostilities , it had been too strategically placed for alien ownership , and the king had reclaimed it as a royal demesne . |
| 11 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 12 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 13 | It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian . |
| 14 | ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name . |
| 15 | Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds . |
| 16 | The Cabinet in turn chose to treat it as the beginning of the General Strike . |
| 17 | When , during a home game in February 1927 , Hardy shouted from the touchline to a player to move up-field , Chapman chose to regard it as a breach of his authority and arranged for Hardy to move to Tottenham , where a vacancy had conveniently arisen . |
| 18 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 19 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 20 | He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world . |
| 21 | Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’ |
| 22 | As soon as voters came to see it as a real choice between Labour and the Conservatives , thousands of waverers who had told the polls they were going to vote Labour or Liberal Democrats , clearly decamped . |
| 23 | Western statesmen had perceived it as a Soviet device to prise the United States and Western Europe apart . |
| 24 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 25 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 26 | The others decided to take it as a signal , and along with Paul and Agnes jumped out of their armchairs and hurried to their cars . |
| 27 | Addressing a press conference on June 23 , French Finance Minister Pierre Bérégovoy said that while some countries favoured associate membership for the Soviet Union , others had regarded it as a transitional status . |
| 28 | Others wanted to reconceptualise it as a process which could be of benefit to the school , and their department in particular . |
| 29 | The ancient nomes had used it as a kind of lift , but it did n't have wires — it went up and down by some force as mysterious as auntie 's gravy or whatever it was . |