Example sentences of "[prep] it as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think of it as the woodworker 's equivalent to Dungeons and Dragons . |
| 2 | The Conservative Party is as short of it as the Exchequer or the rest of us . |
| 3 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 4 | But then I thought ‘ Driven By You … ’ and ping ! the lights went on ; I thought of it as the power struggle that goes on in relationships . |
| 5 | It 's a word you are unlikely to find in the dictionary but , if you think of it as the opposite to ‘ extrude ’ , meaning to thrust or push out , then the term becomes more understandable . |
| 6 | I want you to think of it as the room where you do your writing . |
| 7 | The starting point must be the teacher 's current perception of the problem if there is to be a widening of awareness and reframing of it as the exploration proceeds . |
| 8 | More might be attempted ( Ayer , 1954a ; Alston , 1976 ; Hannay , 1979 ; Wilkes , I 978 ) but we have , I submit , gone some way in analysing consciousness with the general conception of it as the interdependent existence of subject and content . |
| 9 | A leafy bushy plant , much branched , Culpeper in the 17th century wrote of it as the " herb which all authors are together by the ears about , and rail at one another like lawyers " . |
| 10 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 11 | Erm so whether you think of it as the point is now whizzing round infinitely quickly , or it just stopped , |
| 12 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 13 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |
| 14 | I always think of it as the engine-room of the house . |
| 15 | The current is you can think of it as the amount of water goes through , it 's actually the the current is the amount of electrons that get through in a second . |
| 16 | Creggan found his plumage had fine mist settling on it , while his beak grew shiny wet with it as the trees of Three Island Pond changed to faint grey shadows of their former selves before disappearing into white . |
| 17 | The Allegro assai that follows this piece probably belongs with it as the second movement of a two movement sonata . |
| 18 | Almondsbury came more into it as the last twenty minutes came and erm forced a few corners ; Banbury had probably the more chances of getting the elusive winner erm but the game could have gone either way and I think after all is considered erm the final result was a fair result . |
| 19 | The theory being propounded here sees the global system as primarily a capitalist global system and the main forces in it as the transnational corporations , transnational capitalist classes and the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 20 | I do not overlook De Gourmont 's plea for a meeting of the nations but I do believe that when they meet Paris will be more than slightly abashed to find parodies of the middle ages , Dante and Langue D'Oc foisted upon it as the best in United States poetry . |
| 21 | I would allow this appeal and in answer to the first question raised by the preliminary point of law declare that the council can not maintain an action for libel for any words which reflect upon it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , including its statutory responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund . |
| 22 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
| 23 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 24 | However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ . |
| 25 | Baldersdale was en fête , or as near to it as the dale ever came , when Guardsman George Fawcett arrived back somewhat unexpectedly , from the war . |
| 26 | We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming . |
| 27 | Paracelsus , the Swiss alchemist and physician ( 1493- 1541 ) , referred to it as the ‘ Archeus ’ — the light or energy that underlies the world of shadow or the material world . |
| 28 | She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same . |
| 29 | ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . ) |
| 30 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |