Example sentences of "[verb] it as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So yeah , I 'm not sure whether it , whether whether one should translate it as the mountains of Ararat , or the Ararat mountains . |
| 2 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 3 | It was now no longer sufficient to accept it as the more or less automatic result of the existence of a number of completely sovereign States bound together by geographical contiguity . |
| 4 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 5 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 6 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 7 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 8 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 9 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 10 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 11 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 12 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 13 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 14 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 15 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus more recent cases have , in principle at least , given a broader meaning to that term , utilising it as the foundation for procedural consultation rights to be given to immigrants , workers and local authorities . |
| 18 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 19 | This is perhaps understandable , but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom . |
| 20 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 21 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 22 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 23 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 24 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 25 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 26 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 27 | ( It is tempting to call this curve ‘ the tail ’ , though in fact the old mythological figures show it as the Bear 's head . ) |
| 28 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 29 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 30 | He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years . |