Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] it as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In them he is no longer fighting against his instinctive understanding of the region , traditions and spirit of his home country , but embracing it as a source of inspiration , and eventually using it as a touchstone against which the characters and even life itself are to be judged . |
| 2 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 3 | Frame Technology also seems to be rapidly building on its growing acceptance with Next , Hewlett-Packard and Hell-Xenotron all adopting it as an OEM product . |
| 4 | Far from being a fault , it may be essential that he should accept massive bodies of conventional knowledge on trust ; not merely assimilating it as a chore , but thoroughly enjoying it . |
| 5 | Barry Humphries ' cartoon hero Barry McKenzie made cracks about Château Chunder , the star wine from down under , fondly describing it as a great emetic . |
| 6 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 7 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 8 | Although nominally Producer and Script Editor for the series , neither John Wiles nor Donald Tosh had much to do with this serial , the former greatly resenting it as a three-month obstacle to his attempts to raise Doctor Who towards a more sophisticated and adult level . |
| 9 | I should think it probably would , but I do n't think that 's any reason for not starting it and for not seeing it as a major goal , because after all erm the travel market , as we 've heard , is extremely competitive erm people really do vote with their feet and if we do n't then people wo n't come here , and now we really have got a fight on our hands to encourage people to come here , particularly from North America . |
| 10 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 11 | How many voted to put , smack the Conservatives , and do n't worry about politics I 'm just using it as an example , in the face . |
| 12 | Erm but if this trend continues , I can see them shooting down the activities side of this this place and just using it as an advice centre . |
| 13 | If , if you 're s setting up in business as a childminder , not doing it as a , for a friend , for just nominal expense . |
| 14 | And they 're just doing it as a matter of course over there . |
| 15 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 16 | He would watch the movements of birds for hours through his binoculars without ever assuming that this activity could be interesting to other people , without ever promoting it as a topic of conversation . |
| 17 | Marx 's own celebration of capitalism is an ironic one , demonstrating its historical necessity , but always presenting it as an instrument of a doomed social formation permeated by the image of proletarian suffering . |
| 18 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 19 | In the process , it manages to ease out mental and biological life altogether , once more subsuming it as a wholly social construct . |
| 20 | ( It is worth adding that multiculturalists are prone to another essentialism with regard to the state , often seeing it as a neutral and uncontradictory vehicle for educational and other reforms — see Troyna 's critique ( 1987b ) of the Swann Report . ) |
| 21 | When we use a term like ‘ light-speed ’ we are , therefore , really using it as a kind of shorthand to refer to the velocity of any form of electromagnetic radiation . |
| 22 | In fact if we were n't doing it as a unison group we 'd probably do it ourselves anyway because of the fact that we 've got nine separate branches and we 'd want to have a bit of erm common , common strategy if you like between the branches anyway . |
| 23 | After a bit she became used to being stared at , even taking it as a compliment . |
| 24 | This they make by chewing wood , masticating it with their saliva and then expelling it as a moist pulp which hardens as it dries . |
| 25 | If there are nine straight lines in the figure , then interpreting it as a drawing of a box means , among other things , thinking that the box is not made of transparent material . |
| 26 | Then they sold the old market to Citicorp which set about restoring it as a trading floor , aimed at meeting the demand generated by Big Bang . |
| 27 | But you decide to take some laxatives , again seeing it as a ‘ meaningless ’ incident . |