Example sentences of "[verb] it as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have sometimes thought that more might be done than is commonly attempted in education to familiarise the idea of death to the minds of children by representing it as the grand event for which they were born ; and thus making a future state the object of their chief interest and ambition . |
| 2 | By the latter half of the century , the majority of books on child care — which were enjoying a tremendous popularity — strongly recommended breast-feeding and described it as the normal practice ( Fildes 1980 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 5 | Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term . |
| 6 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 9 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 10 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now Paris may well be the inspiration of poets and troubadours but I do n't remember it as the fabled Athens of the West . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman pays rightful tribute to small business , describing it as the economic backbone of his constituency . |
| 14 | Taken aback by the interruption , Jiang hesitated before continuing with his speech , in which he criticised the United States , describing it as the sole superpower in the post-Cold War era . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | News of the resignation was greeted with jubilation by the protesters , many of whom hailed it as the true start of Bulgaria 's revolution against communist rule . |
| 17 | In continuous processes , a filter medium containing manganese dioxide oxidizes the iron and removes it as the ferric hydroxide . |
| 18 | It was decided to adopt it as the standard background , keeping open the possibility of using pieces of velvet in special cases . |
| 19 | ‘ Whit ’ was dropped from the title but people failed to recognise it as the old Bradford Whit Walk , so the event reverted to the original name . |
| 20 | For the non-obese patient over 65 years who needs a sulphonylurea , a short-acting drug like tolbutamide has much to commend it as the elderly are more prone to hypoglycaemia . |
| 21 | The establishment of DATEC was by no means universally welcomed in the art world , many artists and designers being strongly opposed to links with TEC ; the Association of Art Institutions , for example , urged the DES to recognize it as the appropriate organization to represent all aspects of art and design education . |
| 22 | She knows love , and regards it as the daily currency of life . |
| 23 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
| 24 | He also played a part in developing in England , even before the full force of the new historical criticism of the Bible had been felt there , an understanding of the authority of the Bible which did not rest simply on regarding it as the inspired and inerrant compendium from which the truths about God could be read off in literal and rationalist fashion . |
| 25 | If we are right in regarding it as the single most important area in which independence is prized and which also causes major distress for carers , it seems clear that it should be a priority in health and social services provision . |
| 26 | Craig proposed an emergency voluntary coalition with the SDLP because he saw it as the only way in which some sort of devolved government could be maintained . |
| 27 | He saw it as the only realistic long term solution to Selborne 's dilemma . |
| 28 | His defenders saw it as efficiency , his detractors saw it as the uncaring side of Graeme Souness . |
| 29 | Now , as the capital returns to Berlin , there are plans to restore the Reichstag and use it as the new German parliament . |
| 30 | But its opposition to traditional psychological accounts of socialization , and its articulation , against white feminism , of a specific and positive role for the Afro-American family , leads it to be cited by many feminist psychologists , and the first edition of Williams 's ( 1979 ) Psychology of Women reader took it as the sole representative of psychological work about black women in the overdeveloped world . |