Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To know he had considered her ‘ special ’ was satisfying , but she did not regard it as a signal to fall headlong into his arms . |
| 2 | Althusser uses this case to support his claim that Marx held a complex view of social change , and did not regard it as the outcome of a single contradiction between the forces and the relations of production . |
| 3 | In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element . |
| 4 | They knew the realist option but did not take it as a way out of a social impasse , because , I would argue , the phenomenalist tendency of thought is too strong . |
| 5 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 6 | In the US during the 1970s , the cultural climate in economic thinking was soft on inflation , and the Fed did not tackle it as a result , even though it had the power to do so . |
| 7 | She began to affect , in History lessons , an interest in the Soviet Union : such was the climate of opinion in this progressive boarding school in the north of England in the early 1950s , amongst the sons and daughters of tradesmen and doctors , industrialists and university lecturers , dentists and estate agents , lawyers and farmers , that her interest was regarded with awe and alarm or with frank disbelief , by those who did not dismiss it as the affectation which , in fact , at this stage it was . |
| 8 | I found this mistake hurtful : 'more specifically , I did n't regard it as a source of amusement . |
| 9 | But the phone was cut off , the DHSS did n't regard it as a necessity . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't mean it as a compliment . ’ |
| 11 | so I went and saw him and he goes I did n't mean it as a slut as , as in a promiscuous woman |
| 12 | they did n't express it as a half of twice they just cancelled it through |
| 13 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |
| 14 | I did n't see it as a choice between that and continuing an illegal existence . |
| 15 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 16 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 17 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 18 | He had n't meant it as a rebuke , but Nell flinched . |
| 19 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |