Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may know it better as the Holding Company . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Patten described it yesterday as a ‘ spiteful and impractical and authoritarian plan ’ . |
| 3 | It 's heartening to realise that you have taken the Sinead interview seriously and not just dismissed it totally as the meanderings of a bonkers woman . |
| 4 | He unfolds it there as the antithesis between sin and grace . |
| 5 | In the 1930s , when the Japanese perceived that the Americans , British , Chinese and Dutch , were threatening their supplies of oil and raw materials they coined the term ‘ ABCD encirclement ’ , and used it eventually as an excuse to start the Pacific War . |
| 6 | However , even Cockfield regarded it only as a courtesy title . |
| 7 | They want it primarily as a holiday home , for recreation . |
| 8 | Now you know this , do n't start applying it rigorously as a rule which will inhibit your sailing , merely let the body work it out for itself by noticing the levelness of the horizon . |
| 9 | They identified it afterwards as the seat off the chemical lavatory . |
| 10 | When photographed with adequate equipment it really does recall the outline of the North American continent ; it is dimly visible with the naked eye in the guise of a slightly brighter section of the Milky Way , and binoculars show it clearly as a large region of diffuse nebulosity . |
| 11 | It contains at least 40 stars , but binoculars show it only as a dim , slightly elliptical object of low surface brightness . |
| 12 | In spite of this , and the fact that it was so large , he recognised it immediately as a coelacanth . |
| 13 | People think I put it there as a piece of pop art to decorate the room . |
| 14 | They may watch it knowingly as a piece of kitsch , but the point is that they are watching it . |
| 15 | It was a perfectly appropriate action , but she 'd never seen anyone do it before as a gesture of relief after social effort . |
| 16 | The Side , an unlovely , but beloved spot was where the miners met to squat and smoke and gossip : Burton recollected it warmly as a fraternal masculine club , much cherished . |
| 17 | Knowing that the opening of a cup is round , it is false to depict it simply as an ellipse ; ideally the object is shown as a combination of plan , section and elevation . |
| 18 | Martin Luther King had a vision as personal and private as the sleeping child or the cross-legged meditator , but he turned it outward as a prayer for peace so that it became shared . |
| 19 | The Marshal would see it only as an attempt to get back at Ebert . |
| 20 | I read it regularly as a schoolgirl in the '40s and '50s . |
| 21 | THE Scottish National Party yesterday foreshadowed its campaign for next year 's European elections , in an effort to raise Scots ' confidence in going it alone as an independent nation . |
| 22 | The reason that it seems unpromising follows directly from the Freudian theory of psychosis which sees it essentially as a withdrawal of libido from objects and its re-investment in the ego . |
| 23 | If he had realized this , he might not have classed it light-heartedly as a " Not-hawk " - that is , anything from a wren to a pheasant — and continued on his way up the slope . |
| 24 | Describing it variously as a lark and a spree , The Times was satisfied that although ‘ genteel ruffianism has met with a very decisive rebuff ’ , the Cremorne affair was nothing more than something done ‘ on the impulse of the moment , and out of pure love of mischief ’ . |
| 25 | ( Laughter ) I mean , we accept it now as an everyday thing . |
| 26 | In his public statements on the dispute Lal portrayed it both as a factional struggle , between himself and members of Janata Dal who had come from the Prime Minister 's Jan Morcha group , and as a conflict between urban politicians and a representative of rural India . |
| 27 | We are committed to improving it further as a result of increased traffic , which is largely a consequence of the success of the east coast ports . |
| 28 | We 'll use it just as an exercise again . |
| 29 | No , no the shop could use it then as a as a loss leader he could make say , a penny on it an ge so if he buys it at , you 're buying what , thirty five ? |
| 30 | We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship . |