Example sentences of "[prep] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hugh Stoddart says of it now : ‘ I thought of it as a film set in peacetime about the people who are the cannon fodder in wartime ’ . |
| 2 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 3 | A further defence came from Tony Swift , chairman of the International Federation rules committee : ‘ We do n't think of it as a woman up there — as far as we are concerned it is a person , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ I think of it as a stuffy old family that wants to celebrate the birthday of an aged aunt . |
| 5 | Just think of it as a loss leader and keep your fingers crossed . |
| 6 | So we did n't think much of it as a name at first but while Malcolm was away in the States , we somehow came round to it and decided to go with it . |
| 7 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 8 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 9 | Or rather , they would now be on their way back , since they had decided ( Franca could imagine the little conversation , she thought of it as a ‘ little ’ conversation ) to stay away only one night , instead of the three nights originally planned . |
| 10 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 11 | His recent history — which sounded as remote when he spoke of it as a previous incarnation — had enacted a traditional surfing scenario he was n't particularly proud of . |
| 12 | She speaks of it as a tremendously rich and enlarging experience , ‘ Friendship expressed at its very best , I think ’ . |
| 13 | I do not think of it as a quest in the normal sense but as a drowning or shipwreck in the infinite . |
| 14 | In my mood of delight , I thought of it as a beautiful idea for these were roads that go nowhere , nowhere that could interest men . |
| 15 | Attitudes to homosexuality and lesbianism in our society range from complete rejection to acceptance of it as a valid alternative to a heterosexual preference . |
| 16 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 17 | On specification , think of it as a Turbo R without the turbo : a firmer , sportier saloon for people who do their own driving . |
| 18 | And on price , think of it as a car that costs only twice that of conventional luxury cars instead of three times the level of BMW/Jaguar/Lexus that RR charges for it more potent models . |
| 19 | The discrepancy between the large number of Party members and the Party 's poor performance at the polls indicates clearly that while Danzigers were prepared to take advantage of it as a social refuge , they were by no means as convinced by it as Forster and Hitler desired . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His achievement was twofold : the unification of the Service in the 1930s , and the eradication from the public mind of any lingering notion of it as a refuge for down-and-outs and ne'er-do-wells . |
| 22 | Despite the MIDI nature of the JMP-1 , it 's useful still to think of it as a basic preamp . |
| 23 | He thinks of it as a link in ‘ the great chain of Being ’ , a medieval idea which survived into the eighteenth century ( see A. O. Lovejoy 's book of the same title ) . |
| 24 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 25 | He preferred another conception of the world , the conception of it as a familiar , warm , colourful , sound-filled place to be shared with others — and perhaps especially with Daisy . |
| 26 | In France the concept was assailed by the powerful extremes on both the right and the left : Charles de Gaulle 's contemptuous dismissal of it as a directionless ‘ mish-mash ’ was matched by the ideological opposition of the Communist Party . |
| 27 | As Paul-Henri Spaak was later to remind the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1964 , ‘ Those who drew up the Rome Treaty … did not think of it as essentially economic ; they thought of it as a stage on the way to political union ’ . |
| 28 | Instead of thinking of society as made up of simple parts , we must think of it as a collection of wholes which together make up one ‘ complex whole ’ . |
| 29 | MOST Mexicans refer to the Yucatan peninsula as ‘ the south-east ’ , and think of it as a poor relation memorable only for its Mayan ruins and the resort of Cancun . |
| 30 | More frequently , however , he spoke of it as a means to modernize the Church so that unity might become possible . |