Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | WUKO Chief Referee Tommy Morris describes it as the sort of sound you make when pushing a really heavy car ; the sound explodes out of you , as it were . |
| 4 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 5 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 6 | Devices are available too for giving variable prominence to one or other of the participants in the process to identify it as the topic . |
| 7 | The right characterise it as the ‘ nanny state ’ stifling initiative and giving unproductive employment to the middle classes . |
| 8 | Van Gelder had just left the bridge when another loudspeaker came to life , the repeated double buzzer identifying it as the radio-room . |
| 9 | His decision to use it as the basis for a grand narrative painting can be aligned with the revival of interest in Victoriana which the Festival of Britain had stimulated and which was especially noticeable in the graphic section of the Design School at the Royal College . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( It is tempting to call this curve ‘ the tail ’ , though in fact the old mythological figures show it as the Bear 's head . ) |
| 12 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 13 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 14 | Bayonne has known many other military episodes than these ; moreover , you need only to drop one of the two n s from its name to recognize it as the birthplace of that sinister weapon , the bayonet . |
| 15 | Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 18 | The official history of the movement sees it as the outgrowth of ‘ homes and refuges for the destitute and institutes opened in the evenings with a mainly educational purpose in view ’ . |
| 19 | A rather different view of endogenous technical advance sees it as the product of experience or ‘ learning by doing ’ ( Arrow , 1962 ) . |
| 20 | Lovers of opera know it as the setting to Benatsky 's ‘ White Horse ’ operetta : you can still enjoy eating apple strudel and cream on the balcony of the 350 year old White Horse Inn . |
| 21 | The distance estimate is important because astronomers use it as the first rung in the distance ladder they extend across the Universe . |
| 22 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 23 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 24 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 25 | So beautiful is this emotion that some scientists and poets regard it as the elixir of life and pursue it for no other reason . |
| 26 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 27 | One commentator described it as the moment when de Gaulle 's spell was broken . |
| 28 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |