Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Handed over in 1939 by Its owners In response to an advertisement in The Times , Youth Allyah decided to use it as a transit camp for refugee children who were waiting for permanent hachshara .
2 Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign .
3 However , whereas Chatterjee had left it as an interesting hypothesis , Jones and Palmer had designed an experiment right away to try and simulate the effect in the lab .
4 ‘ Had you and Mrs Marshall planned to use it as a weekend retreat , perhaps ?
5 The Shah had imagined it as a modern version of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 , where the rulers of the world could meet and discuss matters of great import .
6 Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism .
7 Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame .
8 Trotsky refused to describe it as a ruling class since it did not own the means of production : it had ‘ neither stocks nor bonds .
9 When , during a home game in February 1927 , Hardy shouted from the touchline to a player to move up-field , Chapman chose to regard it as a breach of his authority and arranged for Hardy to move to Tottenham , where a vacancy had conveniently arisen .
10 Chamberlain had seen it as an ideal way of combining the efficient running of Birmingham with improving its water supplies , housing and city centre .
11 Yet Alfred had chosen it as a place to die and David had said of his father : ‘ … for him it is one of those special places . ’
  Next page