Example sentences of "treat [pron] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To treat them simply as statements of objective fact , to be proved or disproved by appeal to observation of the world around us , to the speculations and arguments of metaphysical philosophy , or even to the authority of the Bible understood as a collection of ‘ divine truths ’ , is to misconceive their nature and function . |
| 2 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 3 | Victoria 's output of Masses , and of motets , was much smaller — no more than a score — eight of them being modelled on his own motets , though he was much more selective than most of his contemporaries , borrowing only sparsely from the model instead of treating it almost as the theme for a series of variations as Palestrina does with ‘ Assumpta est ’ and de Monte in most of his Masses . |
| 4 | This may make her feel that society regards her as a second-class widow , and you may need to help those who come into contact with her to understand how important it is going to be for her future adjustment for them to treat her just as they would any other bereaved person . |
| 5 | He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman . |
| 6 | For us it is a symbol of acceptance , for from that day on Nanny referred to Shanti as ‘ my granddaughter ’ and treated her exactly as she had always done the others . |
| 7 | One obvious problem is that such imagery may lead us to undervalue the significance of the impersonal , particularly if we treat it somehow as the valueless first rung on the ladder of being . |