Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 2 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 3 | Coun Bob Brady , committee chairman described it as an exciting project which would be part of the town 's City Challenge programme . |
| 4 | Printer Sharing is handled in much the same way — the owner makes a printer available , and a remote user specifies it as a network printer in the Printers control panel , attaching it to , say , LPT3 on his own machine . |
| 5 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 6 | But that Monday 's Panorama programme revealed it as a piece of lunacy under definite consideration . |
| 7 | Self-pity is a totally contemptible vice and I have throughout many vicissitudes and much unmerited disappointment avoided it as a plague . |
| 8 | At first the club treated it as a private matter and The Doc shook hands on a new four year contract . |
| 9 | So , so possibly that ough ought to say , the their agent described it as |
| 10 | This is not to say that everyone could name the book ( one chief adviser described it as ‘ the shiny red book which the drama adviser insisted I read ’ ) , nor in some instances was its actual existence known although its influence could be recognized . |
| 11 | A defence lawyer described it as ‘ a very tragic case ’ . |
| 12 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 13 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 14 | The President condemned it as a " taxpayer-financed incumbent protection plan " . |
| 15 | The agreement provoked an outcry in Hong Kong where both the Law Society and the local bar association condemned it as a threat to the independence of the judiciary and contrary to the 1984 Joint Declaration . |
| 16 | The test of its validity is whether the subjects of the research accept it as a true account of their way of life . |
| 17 | The social stigma of alcoholism sees it as a disgrace rather than a disease that is beyond the control of the sufferer and for this reason ( and their own " denial " — which will be explained later ) friends and family may be reluctant to accept the true nature of the diagnosis . |
| 18 | Like Grisone , they believe that the horse regards it as a reward when the rider or handler stops punishing it ! |
| 19 | Deborah Pender , the head of a distribution company , lodged one of several bids for the complex to save it as a major tourist attraction . |
| 20 | Developers could use the tool in-house , at the expense of buying a target machine , currently an RS/6000 , or have Echo do it as a service . |
| 21 | The T-shirt and three-button T-shirt show it as a border design using the central tile version . |
| 22 | The historical interest of the collection and , indeed , of the palazzo itself has led to a decision to open it as a museum . |
| 23 | Loving and aching , her heart recognised it as such . |
| 24 | A 6′ 4″ natural athlete from Eastbourne who spent the winter slumming it as a ski-guide on the slopes of Meribel , he completed the over when Jones limped out of Lancashire 's victory quest at Hove , then proceeded to halt the charge with a career-best 5 for 54 . |
| 25 | The judge described it as ‘ a highly unusual circumstance ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | APB chairman Bill Morrison stressed that the paper was the ‘ first stage in the debate , not the conclusion ’ , and many of the immediate responses on publication welcomed it as such . |
| 28 | A weekly magazine , L'Europeo , published a piece on the problems of restoration and reproduced a photograph of a panel by the sixteenth-century Ferrarese painter Ortolano , in the Pinacoteca Capodimonte , with a caption describing it as Leonardo 's ‘ Last Supper ’ . |
| 29 | A US-German committee that issued a preparatory report on the need for such a council sees it as a forerunner for an institution to promote cooperation between the United States and all of Europe . |
| 30 | The research team referred to in the follow-on milk ad took it as an established fact and were interested in finding out what effect this minimal rise in blood loss had on a baby 's iron levels . |