Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 2 | The Labour party has never chosen it as a subject . |
| 3 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 4 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 5 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 6 | They laughed , although she had not meant it as a joke . |
| 7 | Poles had experienced the crisis as a series of personal events ; they had not experienced it as a nation through institutions and organisations they saw as undeniably their own . |
| 8 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 9 | With his hold on the south complete within a year , William had both to confirm it as a long-term fact and reward his followers . |
| 10 | He had n't meant it as a rebuke , but Nell flinched . |
| 11 | The other , even though it was certain that he had n't meant it as a compliment , was his ‘ Brainy as well as beautiful ! ’ comment . |
| 12 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
| 13 | Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax . |
| 14 | I 've never used it as a technique like Steve Vai — or there 's a British guitarist , Jan Cyrka , who does that . |
| 15 | The Government have put large sums of money into the public services for many years , but have not proclaimed it as a great virtue . |
| 16 | But professional specialists themselves have largely rejected it as a solution . |
| 17 | We have always seen it as a milestone on the road to closer integration and closer unity . |
| 18 | Although the Club is a private one , we have always seen it as a service to the local community , particularly the younger members . |
| 19 | We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means . |