Example sentences of "be [verb] [pers pn] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 2 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 3 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 4 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 5 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 6 | ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’ |
| 7 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 9 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 10 | Lewis seemed to be taking it as a personal insult that the family had come to the Hebrides for their summer holiday . |
| 11 | In suggesting the rule is an inalienable part of the language , Dale Spender ironically assists those she criticises in making their sexism look natural , when she ought to be exposing it as a cultural construct . |
| 12 | Either way , astronomers are regarding it as a fascinating astronomical object and not just a recordbreaker . |
| 13 | But his turning up at such an occasion may be an explicit act of communication — a way of saying without words that he can now resist the blandishments of the bar and that his friends and colleagues are to regard him as a reformed character . |
| 14 | An apprentice fitter for the Harbour Commissioners , Mark has burst through showing tremendous talent this season and already there are some who are nominating him as a future British 125cc champion . |
| 15 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 16 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 17 | Because to see someone is to see them as a human being and to see them as a human being is to acknowledge them as such . |
| 18 | The best way to approach this contradiction is to see it as a genuine clash of radical theory and pragmatic experience . |
| 19 | An alternative way of looking at higher education is to see it as a continuing process in the reproduction of gender relations . |
| 20 | Although the COB Rules provide that no customer agreement is required for an indirect customer as such , the purpose of these provisions is to treat him as a direct customer in the particular circumstances and so that exclusion is irrelevant . |
| 21 | The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative . |
| 22 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 23 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |