Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.

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1	In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on .
2	On paper , Peter could have described his mother 's face in terms of its component parts but he could not visualize it as a whole .
3	I did n't and could n't see it as a progressive condition which was bound to culminate in some sort of breakdown or breakthrough .
4	And she hoped Nigel would n't take it as a slur on his driving .
5	I do n't think that I , I would n't see it as a panic measure .
6	‘ I would n't describe it as an assault but it was certainly reckless and dangerous play .
7	And they would n't have it as a nice antique one , that not sort of thing , no .
8	The thing is , the trouble with that is when you try and understand or argue about something like that you ca n't treat it as a work of art cos it is n't it 's a functioning building
9	I mean , I think that one should put as much service as one possibly can into the preventive end — I ca n't see it as an either/or !
10	Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) .
11	‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’
12	‘ My advice to them would be that if you ca n't win as an amateur , you wo n't do it as a pro , ’ he said .

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