Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have admitted some of the questions on this paper are too difficult for the children and in Anthony 's school , where they took it as a class test , I believe the highest marks were about 40 or 42pc . ’ |
| 2 | I try to justify it in terms of training the intellect to think in an abstract and critical way , so I regard it as a general education . |
| 3 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 4 | most of the changes that have been made to those houses have been er erm at the request of Newton Sherwood District Council , they the the they lifted the room pitch , we had a lower one , they wanted a higher one , erm , and you know , erm , all all basically erm the the although they counted it as a change since application |
| 5 | The managers I interviewed appeared to lack commitment to improving motivation , although they identified it as a problem . |
| 6 | Although they see it as a step in the right direction , people working in the area fear that it may take another generation before Karamoja cools down . |
| 7 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ My Lords , I have already disclaimed the intention of discussing the scope of the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman but , even if I treat it as a general rule , there are many indications in favour of a liberal attitude towards the exceptions contemplated but not spelt out by Lord Diplock . |
| 10 | But I think i it also would highlight if you put it as a sentence |
| 11 | But you see if you make it as a , a division it makes it easier . |
| 12 | One of the better ones at the moment are the with profits bonds , where you 're guaranteed a re returns , rather like an endowment , if you buy it as a single premium again . |
| 13 | It 's easier to get your case accepted if you offer it as a collective decision : ‘ Something we could consider is … |
| 14 | Quoting extensively from a textbook in a PhD thesis , for example ( especially if you treat it as an authority rather than as something for critical comment ) is likely to give the wrong impression : that you are a beginner rather than an expert in your subject . |
| 15 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 16 | Procedural due process is a matter of the right procedures for judging whether some citizen has violated laws laid down by the political procedures ; if we accept it as a virtue , we want courts and similar institutions to use procedures of evidence , discovery , and review that promise the right level of accuracy and otherwise treat people accused of violation as people in that position ought to be treated . |
| 17 | But if we want it as a function , right , I give you this person 's name is Sophie say , and she maps to her father . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So James had good reason not to trust a local market in tobacco , and to believe that he would do better if he kept it as a commodity to be imported and to pay duty accordingly , mainly at London and Bristol . |
| 20 | He said this kindly , as if he meant it as a tip she could use on her next date — which obviously was not going to be with him . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |
| 22 | She quoted an education lecturer , " if Risinghill were a country place , the natural conditions of rural life would throw the teacher into the community , but in London social conditions do not do this ; unless you see it as a need , you would go along quite happily thinking the community is not part of your job " ( Berg 1968:273 ) . |
| 23 | You might find yourself procrastinating , because you see it as an enormous task which will take up all your time and energy for weeks ! |
| 24 | So if a girl does not feel able to go and ask for the Pill , or if she is reluctant to use it because she sees it as a health risk , the alternative may be to use nothing . |
| 25 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 26 | Coloureds and Indians have tended to support the National Party — one estimate is that 60% of them gave it their backing in mid-1992 — because they saw it as a bulwark against black domination . |
| 27 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 28 | That 's because they see it as a threat to their political authority as the only representative of the people . |
| 29 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 30 | They have exempted it from public expenditure cuts because they see it as an investment for the future . |