Example sentences of "[verb] it as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history : |
| 2 | My readings in Zen , too , had shown me the folly of love , analysed it as an illusion among all the other illusions of this floating and temporary world , an emotion that by its very nature created suffering . |
| 3 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 4 | The alternative version has it as a description of the style of the painting ( and it makes no difference here whether the recumbent posture belongs to the living sitter or to the image in the finished picture ) . |
| 5 | well no she has it as a toy room do n't she ? |
| 6 | However , the Cultural Revolution was also presented as an attempt by the party to gain control of the state bureaucracy and even replace it as an organ of implementation . |
| 7 | When we help them God sees it as helping him ; when we are kind to them , God counts it as a kindness done to him , and so on . |
| 8 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 9 | ‘ Unfortunately , it fell to pieces the third time I accessed it as a user ( no seams you see ) . |
| 10 | The movement , which covers Darlington , Richmondshire , Northallerton , Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , has acquired Harewood House in Darlington and intends opening it as a day hospice . |
| 11 | But his full-bottomed wig he has kept in the hope that his barrister son , also Bernard , will one day need it as a QC . |
| 12 | The ancient Forest system was in fact cumbrous and inefficient : the attempt to revive it as an instrument of Crown policy was doomed to failure . |
| 13 | It is a reason to accept it as a way of being kind to a friend . |
| 14 | Either he can at once accept the anticipatory breach as a repudiation and immediately claim damages or else he can refuse to accept it as a repudiation and wait until there has been actual failure to perform the contract ( as opposed to an anticipatory one ) . |
| 15 | The reason is that even when this is a good reason to accept advice it is not a reason to accept it as a piece of advice . |
| 16 | The parody of deviant sex , far from presupposing and ratifying an original natural sexuality , exposes it as a fiction . |
| 17 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 18 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 19 | Where do evokes the infinitive as a reality , the modals evoke it as a potentiality . |
| 20 | Like all its designs , the B3 is tailor-made and you can buy it as a flat-pack for self-assembly or have it assembled by the company . |
| 21 | ‘ Your house will be worth a lot more now , ’ people remarked brightly , which observation — if it brought forth a reply at all — was countered by a snapped : ‘ I did n't buy it as an investment ’ . |
| 22 | Still , Brown reckons that NT will initially be more popular on client machines rather than servers , despite the fact that Microsoft is keen to position it as a server offering . |
| 23 | Police described it as a gangland style execution . |
| 24 | Lawrence Durrell described it as a way of becoming more human . |
| 25 | Lord Williams described it as a system the old Soviet Union would have been proud of . |
| 26 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , whose Rome Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith co-ordinated the drafting of the documents , described it as a response to the ‘ thirst for truth and certainty ’ , but admitted that the death penalty references were ‘ discussed at length , and not without difficulty ’ . |
| 27 | She described it as a nightmare . |
| 28 | Dr Samuel Johnson , the most famous son of Lichfield , in the south of the constituency , described it as a city of philosophers . |
| 29 | Jan Morris described it as a combination of Tibetan monastic and English penal , with both Moorish and Romanesque detail . |
| 30 | Others , however , described it as a form of ‘ intellectual carping ’ which failed to say anything of originality or significance . |