Example sentences of "can [adv] [verb] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing is , the trouble with that is when you try and understand or argue about something like that you ca n't treat it as a work of art cos it is n't it 's a functioning building |
| 2 | I mean , I think that one should put as much service as one possibly can into the preventive end — I ca n't see it as an either/or ! |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc took exception to the story we wrote saying the new SparcClassic is n't all it 's cracked up to be because it ca n't hack it as a standalone thanks to Solaris eating up all its disk and internal memory ( UX No 416 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I was always a bad correspondent , ’ berated Lear , ‘ but surely you are still more unconscientious , for when I do write , you answer me by a short scrawl — only one word of which out of every 2d can I decipher , & I have kept your last and only epistle to see if I ca n't sell it as an ancient hieroglyphic . ’ |
| 5 | They can only use it as a source of energy after alcohol has been processed by the liver . |
| 6 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 7 | Erm but the converse is true , that er er er a British national can go and work in all of those countries , so instead of seeing it as a threat , I mean one can easily see it as an opportunity . |
| 8 | I think I can just glimpse it as a dim fuzz , though large telescopes are needed to bring out its form and its very hot central star , which has a surface temperature of around 75000 degrees . |
| 9 | If you think that the result of your soft weaving effort will not have enough body on its own you can always use it as a supplement to another knitted pattern stitch . |
| 10 | But when an idea or the picture is false , we are more conscious of it as a separate thing , for we can clearly see it as a preconception or a prejudice . |