Example sentences of "[verb] it as an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Desert Storm commander , General Norman Schwarzkopf described it as an historic day : a day to make it clear who was in charge . |
| 2 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 3 | Some elements in the Argentine military , along with members of the opposition UCR , characterized the abandonment of the missile programme as a capitulation to US demands , and described it as an irresponsible move at a time when Chile was suspected to be seeking a new missile . |
| 4 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 5 | While some described it as an important strengthening of the rights of children , others saw it as a willingness to overturn natural family links in order to pander to a child 's desire to acquire richer parents . |
| 6 | How can you change ask , ge get to that , but say it as an open question . |
| 7 | Both had begun the war as conscientious objectors , Vaughan ending it as an Orderly Room clerk for the Army in a prisoner-of-war camp in Yorkshire . |
| 8 | Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] . |
| 9 | Where a practice is reasonably common and sensible in its market context , the courts will often uphold it as an implied term in the main contract . |
| 10 | There were , in short , pious men and women who not only failed to find it blasphemous , but regarded it as an integral part of their belief — as integral , say , as Peter 's role is to the Church of Rome . |
| 11 | However , he devalued the ability to reason about intentions as he regarded it as an immature form of causal reasoning . |
| 12 | She regarded it as an unofficial library , as remote and as Municipal as the library itself And then , one Saturday morning , she went into it with Walter Ash , to look at ( not to buy ) the text of Anouilh 's Ring Round the Moon , which was being currently performed at the local rep . |
| 13 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 14 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 15 | Fujitsu , which in 1990 abandoned plans for a top-end Sparc in favour of variants for embedded applications after deciding that the high-end market would be too small , says it will support future Sparc technology and work toward developing it as an industry-standard architecture . |
| 16 | Imagine it as an ever-increasing overdraft . |
| 17 | I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea . |
| 18 | It is well written and interestingly , Warner is publishing it as an original B format and its gimmick to bring it above the rest is to give it a dust jacket . |
| 19 | Instead of this he left her to think of a solution and then rejected it as an inappropriate translation . |
| 20 | Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre . |
| 21 | Fashion editors had used it as an exotic background to collections of fabulous clothes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Together with the use of the display area it is hoped pupils will be encouraged to use the library as a source of information for homework and classwork on a regular basis and that staff will see it as an important adjunct to their departmental resources . |
| 24 | In most cases the issue raises no problems , but estranged parents using the child to fight their bat ties or rebellious teenagers seeking recognition of their maturity and autonomy against over-protective or interventionist parents may see it as an important issue of principle . |
| 25 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 26 | The young teacher who enjoys his work but also sees it as an attractive life style . |
| 27 | A sense of loss of identity causes the voyager to project what he or she encounters so as to perceive it as an external phenomenon , and also to introject elements of the familiar world in order to recreate a recognizable context . |
| 28 | Well in fact it showed it as an outstanding amount . |
| 29 | One such hopeful is Pacific Software Corp in Mountain View , California , which has just announced what it calls Paragram version 1.0 , describing it as an innovative approach to parallel application development and program generation . |
| 30 | She further condemned the press use of the words ‘ dawn raid ’ , describing it as an emotive term . |