Example sentences of "[verb] it as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now doubtless to some people this is an everyday situation and so they have no problems in tackling it as a mathematical exercise . |
| 2 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 3 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 4 | If it 's not , you can turn the old one upside down and replace it as a temporary measure until you get the right one . |
| 5 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 6 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 7 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 8 | Realizing this , Franco stepped up his arguments in favour of a slow campaign , justifying it as a political necessity . |
| 9 | The movement , which covers Darlington , Richmondshire , Northallerton , Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , has acquired Harewood House in Darlington and intends opening it as a day hospice . |
| 10 | But his full-bottomed wig he has kept in the hope that his barrister son , also Bernard , will one day need it as a QC . |
| 11 | He felt he needed to rebuild the relationship — not , of course , to revive it as a total marriage , but to get back to the level of intermittent companionship which seemed to have gone . |
| 12 | Bosnia-Hercegovina and Slovenia attended as " guests " ; the status of Yugoslavia 's membership was highly controversial , with the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY — the new federal entity formed by Serbia and Montenegro ) representing it as a full member . |
| 13 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 14 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 15 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 16 | The parody of deviant sex , far from presupposing and ratifying an original natural sexuality , exposes it as a fiction . |
| 17 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 18 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 19 | Like all its designs , the B3 is tailor-made and you can buy it as a flat-pack for self-assembly or have it assembled by the company . |
| 20 | And then I said well I will buy it as a joint sort of joint family Christmas present |
| 21 | Still , Brown reckons that NT will initially be more popular on client machines rather than servers , despite the fact that Microsoft is keen to position it as a server offering . |
| 22 | But chairman Sir Ian Trethowan described it as a ‘ cost effective ’ way into the US market which will add the adolescent delights of sitcoms such as ‘ Gim me a Break ’ to Thames 's programme library . |
| 23 | Dr Samuel Johnson , the most famous son of Lichfield , in the south of the constituency , described it as a city of philosophers . |
| 24 | As is always the case not everyone was pleased : one of Booth 's team described it as a ‘ large and rather ugly building ’ although ‘ its interior looks well enough when crowded with people . ’ |
| 25 | Philip Dodderidge described it as a ‘ most extraordinary book ’ . |
| 26 | The film became the American entry , by invitation , into that year 's Venice film festival and the New York Times ' critic , Bosley Crowther , summed up his nation 's embarrassment when he described it as a ‘ brutal picture which caused diplomats to mop their brows — a vicious account of boozing , fighting , pot-smoking , vandalizing and raping done by a gang of sickle riders who are obviously drawn to represent the swastika-wearing Hell 's Angels , one of several disreputable gangs on the west coast . |
| 27 | Although in 1962 he had appealed to the Government of Ireland Act , in 1963 he described it as a ‘ constitution of bondage ’ . |
| 28 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 29 | Homer described it as a monster with the body of a goat , tail of a DRAGON and head of a lion , belching flames . |
| 30 | Others , however , described it as a form of ‘ intellectual carping ’ which failed to say anything of originality or significance . |