Example sentences of "[to-vb] it as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The survey also made me realise that it was not enough to have read about the early beginnings of any religion ; one needed to study it as a living faith and see the development of thought and interpretation . |
| 32 | History students who appear to be confused about why they are studying the subject do little to encourage others to study it as a full GCSE subject or at an advanced level . |
| 33 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 34 | Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds . |
| 35 | Since the infinitive evokes the effect , to represent it as a mere result produced on the patient implies representing it as coming after the operation of producing this effect ( = the making ) , whence the use of to express the before/after relationship between the two events . |
| 36 | ‘ I do n't care if we have to release it as a non-profit-making single . |
| 37 | Although it is true that investment business can hold many pitfalls for the unwary , I find it surprising that so many firms fail to grasp it as a significant business opportunity . |
| 38 | The first to supplant it as the final stepping-stone to the highest offices of the learned profession seems to have been the altmsli ( 60-akce ) class . |
| 39 | Maybe I am naïve , but I find myself tempted to see it as a genuine case of pure , disinterested altruism . |
| 40 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Bob Rafelson had been toiling with Nicholson 's friend and associate Carol Eastman on a script for a new film and as it came towards completion , they began to see it as a perfect vehicle for BBS to capitalize on its success with Easy Rider . |
| 43 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 44 | It does not take too much distortion to see it as an anti-abortion tract . |
| 45 | President of the Europe Commission , Jacques Delors , would like to see it as the only EC currency , but John Majors wants it to circulate alongside other currencies . |
| 46 | As evolutionists we are tempted to see it as the only kind of robustness that matters . |
| 47 | With his hold on the south complete within a year , William had both to confirm it as a long-term fact and reward his followers . |
| 48 | Since the Paris Opéra was such an exceptional institution , and its orchestra and chorus so numerous , all French writers felt obliged to treat it as a special case . |
| 49 | But you 've got to treat it as a special case |
| 50 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 51 | In some schools , most pupils use spoken Standard English as their native dialect ; in others , most have to learn it as an additional language . |
| 52 | The new version of the bus , which meets the IEEE 1596–1992 interconnect standard , will be jointly designed by the two companies , and will be manufactured and marketed by LSI Logic , which plans to offer it as an ASIC core through its CoreWare Division . |
| 53 | Toby , next morning , was inclined to regard it as a great victory . |
| 54 | She had even vaguely registered that it sold flowers , but it had never occurred to her to regard it as a serious rival . |
| 55 | Instead of thinking of it as a zero-sum game in which one side gains what the other loses , they are beginning to regard it as a positive-sum game from which both sides may gain , provided both play with skill and finesse . |
| 56 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 57 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 58 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 59 | Apart from being awkward , the Arabic version also distorts the information structure of the original by presenting the first element ( ‘ general picture ’ ) as given when the point of the cleft structure is to present it as the new information worth attending to . |
| 60 | ‘ PDAG passed a motion opposing the Government 's decision to abolish it as a democratic forum involved in education and the transfer its work to Government quangos , ’ said society education spokesman , Ffred Ffransis . |