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 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 4 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 5 | It cost £300,000 to build , a vast sum for the time , and Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in India , Burma , and Ceylon , with typical travel-guide hyperbole , described it as the finest railway station in India or any country . |
| 6 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 7 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 8 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 9 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We can describe it as the seamless integration of data , text , images and sound within a single digital information environment . |
| 12 | This is perhaps understandable , but it is stretching credulity to expect us to bless it as the highest human freedom . |
| 13 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 19 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 20 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 21 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Between August 1975 and December 1978 the COS-B satellite observed 2CG342–02 on five occasions and catalogued it as the tenth-strongest γ -ray source . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman pays rightful tribute to small business , describing it as the economic backbone of his constituency . |
| 27 | Mark Williams Co of Northbrook , Illinois bills the 4.0 release of its Coherent Unixalike as the answer to an impecunious Unix-lover 's prayer , describing it as the first inexpensive , easy-to-use , 32-bit clone of Unix and ‘ smaller , faster , and less expensive than any other Unix operating system for the Personal Computer ’ . |
| 28 | The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) withdrew its 39 delegates indefinitely from the 92-member National Assembly on June 18 , protesting over a " reactionary initiative " to remove two 1990 laws on land redistribution and describing it as the first step of a plan to destroy the achievements of the 1979 revolution . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |