Example sentences of "[vb past] it as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 81 , 82–83 described it as coercion : |
| 2 | Competitors were housed in the Belfry Hotel within the grounds and one frustrated writer described it as fortress Belfry . |
| 3 | It was instrumental in bringing the young Niki Lauda into the public eye when he dismissed it as rubbish after a handful of laps . |
| 4 | Again , this feature was copied from the West Indians who used it as part of their own hairstyles . |
| 5 | Tradition claims that King John used it as hunting lodge . |
| 6 | The tower was converted to a house around the turn of the century and has been lived in ever since apart from a couple of years when architects used it as offices . |
| 7 | We had read it , used it as an absorbent insulating layer to combat puddles and spilt porridge , and finally , when it and our bowels had reached saturation point , used it as lavatory paper ! |
| 8 | Right from the days of the early caveman when he used fire not only for cooking but he also used it as means of lighting and keeping his family warm er during the winter months . |
| 9 | Specifically it was , he regarded it as kind of transmuted libido . |
| 10 | ‘ But it got louder and louder until I recognised it as Benny Hill 's voice . |
| 11 | From their perspective , family problems were often underestimated by the agencies and their sense of parental responsibility , exercised in trying to ‘ get something done ’ , was violated by social workers who misinterpreted it as lack of commitment to their children 's needs ( Fisher et al . , |
| 12 | Others rejected it as nonsense . |
| 13 | Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’ |
| 14 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 15 | A woman who was in danger of losing her home after she mortgaged it as security for her husband 's business debts , has won the right to keep it following a victory in the House of Lords . |
| 16 | We have stressed the regularity that is observed in free-running experiments and interpreted it as evidence for the body clock . |
| 17 | This was the voice of a separate business activity , the credit industry , for which money-lending was conducted to make its own profit , not just as a means of increasing the sales of the company who employed it as part of its marketing . |
| 18 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 19 | In those days , Cadbury 's saw it as part of its social responsibility to provide training and education for the workers it recruited . |
| 20 | Modigliani painted hair when he saw it as part of his design . |
| 21 | Norman MacAskill , Inverness , said the Conservatives ' case for re-structuring councils was fraudulent , as the majority of those who wanted single-tier councils saw it as part of the move to a Scottish parliament . |
| 22 | this is a good word because it well it 's not because of the associations but it stresses the femininity and that 's what a lot of the sixties feminists lost , I think was their own femininity because they saw it as man 's imposition |
| 23 | He knew that what he was seeing meant jobs for Cork , wage-packets for its workers , money for its shopkeepers , business for its tradesmen ; but , more than that , more even than the commerce that would result on a national scale , he saw it as history in action . |
| 24 | I saw it as Men must see it and not as an eagle does . ’ |
| 25 | But the EC President 's demand for solidarity angered Euro-sceptics , who saw it as Brussels trying to dictate British policy on a wide range of issues . |
| 26 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 27 | ‘ The national interest ’ was also a rebuff to congressmen , who could not afford to be critical of it , even when they already knew it as grounds to keep them in the dark . |
| 28 | I did n't dress it up ; no wonder she took it as life letting her down once more . |
| 29 | Another brother , Brian , 27 , added : ‘ She took it as part and parcel of the job . |
| 30 | We all did it as part of an English lesson . |