Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | King believed that Kandyans regarded it as ‘ an act of daring , largely partaking the character of a dangerous field sport ’ . |
| 2 | When the AV was being discussed in the House of Commons in 1931 Winston Churchill described it as " the worst of all possible plans , the least scientific and the most unreal . |
| 3 | The radical William Cobbett described it as a ‘ poor man 's robbery bill ’ , designed to reduce the standards of the labouring poor . |
| 4 | Jim described it as a ‘ user friendly ’ locomotive , it is possible to keep on using the machine continuously without having to take it out of service for maintenance . |
| 5 | Ten years later , the Sizewell B PWR was said to promise a bargain in power generation compared with a coal-fired alternative : in 1985 , leading CEGB executive John Baker described it as ‘ a clear winner ’ over coal . |
| 6 | The band 's chief songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald described it as their most outstanding to date . |
| 7 | Israel perceived its military supremacy as essential for its safety , while Syria regarded it as a mortal threat to its own interests . |
| 8 | Condemning the loyalist petrol bombing of homes at Legar Hill Park on the edge of the city , Councillor Pat Brannigan described it as a ‘ despicable act ’ . |
| 9 | His appointment was dismissed by the ANC as a " sham " , although in a seemingly contradictory statement ANC president Nelson Mandela described it as an " encouraging step " . |
| 10 | The assessors and Burn only placed it sixth on their Foreign Office lists , and Scott dismissed it as ‘ a flash affair by my old pupil ’ . |
| 11 | It is a dramatic island viewed from the sea and I can understand Alexander Dumas choosing it as a setting for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda . |
| 12 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 13 | That is absolute rubbish and I expect the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook to condemn it as such . |
| 14 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 15 | The Emperor 's appeal in 1863 for a general European congress to settle ‘ outstanding problems ’ had been rejected all round , Queen Victoria dismissing it as ‘ an impertinence ’ . |
| 16 | The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT . |
| 17 | WordStar used it as a base from which to build WordStar for Windows , a process that has continued with this latest release , which adds Windows 3.1 compliance amongst other things . |
| 18 | Chapman could see no advantage in it and Buchan dismissed it as a ‘ stunt ’ . |
| 19 | They were appalled by the sickly , overpowering , cloying sweet smell that pervaded the carriage , Mr Kewish described it as not dissimilar to incense ! |
| 20 | At present the museum 's director Alessandra Mottola Molfino envisages it as a huge visual archive rather than a collection of objects . |
| 21 | In 1874 the Bishop of Beverley adopted it as a public institution and the Bishops of England passed a resolution to recognise St. John 's Institution as a Catholic Institution for England and to assist in the cost of its foundation . |
| 22 | To justify this and Stalin presents it as a revolutionary me measure , as a shift to the left , as the creation of socialism , to justify it er Stalin presents the argument that the whole world is moving forward to a new stage on the road to socialism , it 's all a lot of nonsense but the ideological needs of the regime in Russia are determining the advice which is being given to er various communist parties . |
| 23 | Eva took it as a sign that she was going to get better . |
| 24 | Barnes and Seldon deploy it as a classic example of Macmillanesque subtlety in handling colleagues . |
| 25 | Maddox said it as if even this world could deliver miracles . |
| 26 | But note that Wordsworth classified it as ‘ A poem of the Imagination ’ in collected editions . |
| 27 | Speaking at the University of Loughborough in October 1986 , the Governor of the Bank of England explained it as the outcome of ‘ deregulation ’ and subsequent ‘ structural changes ’ in financial markets . |
| 28 | The paper should prove to be ‘ a powerful stimulus ’ to discussions , the Institute said , while the ACCA welcomed it as ‘ an important contribution to the expectations gap debate ’ . |
| 29 | An insurance cover note also said it was a 1.6 and Jackson sold it as such to Robert Ross , of Bridgegate , Barnard Castle , for £3,695 . |
| 30 | It was once a country remedy for rheumatism , using the fresh green tops made into a tea , and Culpeper recommended it as an excellent medicine for the " quinsy … to gargle it , when boiled with figs " . |