Example sentences of "[vb base] it as [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If it 's not , you can turn the old one upside down and replace it as a temporary measure until you get the right one .
2 How can you change ask , ge get to that , but say it as an open question .
3 ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor .
4 But women clearly found ways of turning a restrictive garment into an alluring fashion : the surviving representations of the stola show it as a revealing slip , cut low between the breasts and often suspended from the slimmest of decorative straps .
5 Imagine it as an ever-increasing overdraft .
6 It is of course difficult to ‘ police ’ this objection , and there is a certain ambivalence in the attitude of some countries ; recognising the usefulness of postal service , they welcome it as a supplementary method designed to back up the ‘ official ’ service effected in other ways , but are unhappy to see the postal channel treated as appropriate or sufficient in itself .
7 I knew that I must live , must embody , this way-of-seeing — not merely hold it as an interesting idea .
8 Save it as a Text-only document ( use the key to make this selection ) .
9 Design a template for each type of document that you produce and save it as a separate file — even if it is only your name and address and other information about the page layout and design .
10 If , after learning successfully about the suffix -ful , he still makes that error , then consider it as a phonic alternative .
11 The real question is not whether the Book of Genesis has it right ( most modern theologians read it as a poetic account ) but whether evolution is correct .
12 The test of its validity is whether the subjects of the research accept it as a true account of their way of life .
13 I des describe it as a dirty eater , mackerel .
14 They describe it as a terrifying ordeal and although it was around two o'clock in the morning , they say a number of people were in the area and could help their search for the rapist .
15 Soldiers present in the guard-room which it frequents describe it as a black spaniel who would enter the room when candles were lit and disappear at daybreak , trotting up the hallway .
16 Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) describe it as a revivalist term for a philosophy .
17 But one can not overlook the point that all other known medieval European versions of this tale , written in or translated from Latin prose , present it as a moral example ; it can be allegorized , with the housewife as the Christian soul , the absent husband Christ , the lover worldly vanity , the procuress the Devil .
18 TIMES may have been tough in recent years but matters have come to a fine pass when this distinguished theatre feels obliged to assemble a posse of actresses and two actors to perform what is basically a rather vulgar sketch and present it as a front length drama .
19 However , it might be useful to admit the document as an aid to interpretation and publish it ( with appropriate amendments ) along with the Act or even to re-work it more fundamentally and present it as a formal preamble .
20 With the kind of sound that I use , if I miss any part of the note you hear it as a big clang .
21 We could still make our drama about disputes between neighbours , however , and organise it as a whole group drama — simply by setting each of the improvisations in a single street .
22 They all remember it as a worrying time .
23 When it comes to the mother-in-law/son-in-law relationship , this is often a little less complicated , in spite of all those mother-in-law jokes that depict it as a continuous battle between a slightly hen-pecked , but still spirited little man , and his wife 's fierce , ugly , overweight mother .
24 What I am suggesting for an understanding of the workings of television generic fiction and its associated forms of subjectivity ( or , indeed , of narrative cinema and its subjectivity ) , is that it may be more fruitful if we approach it as an historical development of the complex , theoretical genre of novelistic discourse rather than as a collection of autonomous elementary , historical genres .
25 Copy the last sentence of the first paragraph and insert it as a separate paragraph at the end of the task , one clear line space below the paragraph starting ‘ NOISE … ‘
26 When Christians in this tradition talk of reason , on the other hand , they dismiss it as a human work , tainted therefore by sin and liable to mislead .
27 Leave the railways with British Rail , and put the money in that they would spend on privatization to improve the service for all of us , and keep it as a national railway , please .
28 Yes , I think we have to take any situation like this , not just the major ones like war , but any situation that we come across and use it as a real opportunity for learning , and maybe for adults to be able to do the things that they did n't do when they were children , which is why now we often respond as child in these situations .
29 Charles had given it to her for a joke , suggesting she use it as a visual aid to introduce Saussurean linguistics to first-year undergraduates , holding the tube aloft to demonstrate that what is onomatopoeia in one language community may be obscenity in another .
30 I use it as a listening device — a rabbit and ferret locator .
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