Example sentences of "[vb past] it as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frank Muir , introducing the slot , described it as the television industry 's favourite play . |
| 2 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 3 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 4 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 5 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 7 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 8 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 9 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 10 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 11 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 12 | She had plenty of wool , so kept the sleeve and used it as the material for her cushion . |
| 13 | ‘ A pastor I knew used it as the basis of his final sermon , before facing his greatest fear . |
| 14 | Then after the the well there 's er the library as they called it was lined with books leather bound books great big kidney shaped oak table and beautiful chairs there and we used it as the office you know for the principal keeper did his returns and all the rest of it there . |
| 15 | Mercury was believed to possess magical properties and some regarded it as the quintessence of the human body and of all substances . |
| 16 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 17 | He recognised it as the hand of his father , missing now for countless years . |
| 18 | The left side of his face , in the region of the jaw articulation , looked at first sight as though it had been smashed by a blow , but Wycliffe recognised it as the wound of exit of a bullet which had probably ricochetted inside the skull . |
| 19 | Its institutional imprecision and evident anachronism weakened it as the basis for a compromise settlement ; whatever its intention , the fate of the Persian Manifesto was to serve as a base from which to sally against liberalism and all its works . |
| 20 | Between August 1975 and December 1978 the COS-B satellite observed 2CG342–02 on five occasions and catalogued it as the tenth-strongest γ -ray source . |
| 21 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 22 | Cambridge 1 Millwall 0 DION DUBLIN , Cambridge 's top-scorer , started the game on the bench but finished it as the match-winner , following an inspired double-substitution by manager John Beck at half-time . |
| 23 | She reached up and gently touched it as the pall-bearers halted at the spot where her mother , on holiday from Rochdale , Lancs , was gunned down by mistake by an IRA sniper in Belfast last Friday . |
| 24 | In The New York Times , Vincent Canby thought McQueen was ‘ as all-American as a Rover Boy ’ and Hoffman was ‘ not especially convincing ’ , but he enjoyed it as the sort of ‘ escapist movie we used to go see on Saturday night without even bothering to read the marquee ’ . |
| 25 | In 1864 he purchased Sentry Fields extending from the top of Seymer Road to Durlston Head and developed it as the Durlston Park estate . |
| 26 | " Womb " was an intimate and horrifying word although you heard it as the incarnation of the Virgin . |
| 27 | It was released in December 1945 , to an overwhelmingly positive critical response that praised its ‘ maturity ’ and ‘ realism ’ , and also hailed it as the latest success from the Coward/Lean ‘ team ’ , which had , during the Second World War , produced three notably successful films , namely In Which We Serve ( 1942 ) , This Happy Breed ( 1944 ) , and Blithe Spirit ( 1945 ) . |
| 28 | News of the resignation was greeted with jubilation by the protesters , many of whom hailed it as the true start of Bulgaria 's revolution against communist rule . |
| 29 | But , although I heard that music , I never saw it as the kind of music I 'd be involved in And that was because Kensal Green was a deprived place and the most deprived people were the blacks . |
| 30 | Of course , Marx and Engels focused most on this late stage , since they saw it as the cause of the rise of capitalism . |