Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.

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1 The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality .
2 Its journalists then re-founded it as an independent paper [ see p. 38372 ] .
3 The simple , laughing islanders subsequently worshipped it as a god , much to the amusement of their more sophisticated neighbours .
4 The irony of black power is that just as whites once used skin colour as a source of privilege , so blacks now use it as a source of entitlement .
5 There is also an interesting account of the excavations carried out by Wright which caused Sir Mortimer Wheeler years later to use it as an illustration of how not to carry out an archaeological dig .
6 Females often produce it as a contact call for their cubs , particularly when they start going out on rambles together for the first time .
7 Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter .
8 Some historians now view it as an attempt by the state to exercise more effective though subtle control over the lower classes .
9 This organism often grows in low numbers , and many laboratories still regard it as a contaminant .
10 Certain spiders also use it as a last resort .
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