Example sentences of "[to-vb] it as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 2 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 3 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 4 | The establishment of DATEC was by no means universally welcomed in the art world , many artists and designers being strongly opposed to links with TEC ; the Association of Art Institutions , for example , urged the DES to recognize it as the appropriate organization to represent all aspects of art and design education . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As evolutionists we are tempted to see it as the only kind of robustness that matters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |