Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] it as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The historic state coach No 351 which was being restored at that time suffered exterior damage in the fire but it is now intended to restore it as a museum piece .
2 Alison 's contemporary Heather , who is a data editor , has ‘ had a sip of one ’ but has never ‘ considered drinking it as an alternative to alcohol ’ .
3 However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures .
4 ‘ Someone has left us a private house in Colchester in their will and we 've decided to use it as a training house .
5 One , in the grounds of Tullie House Museum just outside the fort gate , was 12.2m ( 40 ft ) by at least 67 m ( 219 ft ) , with a substantial plank floor over a solid foundation , and may have had a military function ; attempts have also been made to interpret it as the base for a rampart surrounding an annexe to the fort .
6 When the file concerned was an ED ( Enumeration District ) level file , it was too large for our screen editor to be used , and a FORTRAN program had to be written to change it As a result of these corrections , the data held at Manchester is cleaner than that at OPCS ( the Census Office for England and Wales ) itself !
7 A female in a long pleated dress is leaping over two animals , the neck of one of which is heavily covered with barbotine dots , perhaps intended to identify it as a leopard .
8 Most British authors have followed Winkworth ( 1932 ) and regard Nucella as a genus in its own right , ( e.g. , Fretter & Graham , 1962 ; 1985 ) whilst North Americans have tended to treat it as a sub-genus of Thais .
9 It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate .
10 If others point out to me that I always shirk opportunities to get something which I earnestly insist that I desire more than anything else in the world , I shall be persuaded to relinquish it as an end only if on reflection I am forced to admit to myself that I do not feel about it as strongly as I supposed .
11 Most of those who have studied the twentieth-century constitution have ceased to see it as a living , moving thing that has to be studied historically , that has to be studied in relation to interests and political forces , and that has to be understood within the context of larger developments within society and economy .
12 In that case he said : As I understand it , the essence of this branch of law , whatever the origin of it may be , is that a person who has obtained information in confidence is not allowed to use it as a springboard for activities detrimental to the person who made the confidential communication , and springboard it remains even when all the features have been published or can be ascertained by actual inspection by any members of the public .
13 He had tried to keep it as a pet , and had made a cage for it and brought it dandelion leaves to eat ; but it never thrived , and had lived only a few days more .
14 So for those who are tempted to treat it as a game , please remember that it 's not . ,
15 The actuarial valuation on initial adoption of SSAP 24 showed a surplus of £200m , and the company elected to incorporate it as an asset on its balance sheet .
16 Director Arthur Penn had bought the rights to the Thomas Berger novel Little Big Man in 1965 , and MGM had originally planned to produce it as a multimillion-dollar epic before the deal fell through .
17 So , some other understanding of alienation is required to validate it as the dynamic which establishes a proletariat and a property-owning bourgeoisie as Marx 's two antinomies predestined to engage in that life-and-death struggle ; and Marx seeks to provide it by postulating alienation as intrinsic .
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