Example sentences of "[vb pp] it as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August-September 1982 it proved unable to clinch a peace treaty with its Maronite ally , having effectively installed it as the new Lebanese government . |
| 2 | Alon also experimented with the basic design , building a 130 hp Franklin-engined version and a prototype Alon A–4 with a Lycoming O–320 160 hp motor , before selling the type certificate of the Aircoupe to Mooney Aircraft , whereupon Mooney changed it to a single-tail design and manufactured it as the M–10 Cadet , producing 61 at $9,295 each before shutting the line down for good in 1970 . |
| 3 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 4 | I find myself dipping into my pocket and giving to causes that a decade ago I would have refused to because I would have seen it as the responsibility of the statutory sector . |
| 5 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 6 | Surely , Desmond Bonney argued , if the parish boundaries had been defined after the construction of the earthwork , they would have used it as the ‘ natural ’ boundary — much like motorways and railways have been used more recently to define new local authority boundaries . |
| 7 | Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper . |
| 8 | It has been referred to only rarely in official Soviet and Afghan statements in the 1980s since the Soviet-Afghan Friendship and Cooperation Treaty of December 1978 has replaced it as the contractual charter determining the relations between the two states . |
| 9 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 10 | Charity should have recognised it as the calm before the storm , but she did n't . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , I firmly believe that the young man concerned regarded it as the means to an end — I leave that to your imaginations — and not in any way binding . |
| 12 | They both , to an extent not subsequently equalled until the era of Harold Wilson and Edward Heath , regarded it as the most agreeable perquisite of the premiership . |
| 13 | And whatever views the Exchequer Chamber may have had about their decision , succeeding generations have regarded it as the starting-point of a liability wider than any that preceded it . |
| 14 | We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means . |
| 15 | The element of time-saving is seen as significant by many employers , and one respondent identified it as the main motive for taking a recruiting problem to a search consultant in the first place . |
| 16 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 17 | But in 1943 the Italian scholar Maria F. Squarciapino painstakingly collected and analysed the material , recognised its quality , labelled it as the output of a " school " , and urged a re-evaluation of the artists ' contribution to the history of ancient sculpture . |
| 18 | However , the sheer convenience of the compact disc , and its ease of access , has established it as the prime carrier for prerecorded music in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 20 | Experts have described it as the worst case to date of pesticide contamination in Britain . |
| 21 | He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world . |