Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] as a " in BNC.

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1 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick .
2 FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " .
3 ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’
4 The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present .
5 The majority have simply been using it as a solvent .
6 While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment .
7 Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know ,
8 Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames .
9 People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’
10 I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’
11 This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery .
12 We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war
13 No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been
14 He took a drink and went on , " Okay , so they 're invading Earth , but they 're doing it as a tax dodge so that — "
15 But on paper you can see that you 're intending it as a an augmented interval .
16 They 're casting him as a woman .
17 The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done .
18 You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age .
19 ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’
20 ‘ We are treating it as a drug induced death , ’ said a spokesman for the San Diego medical examiner 's office .
21 Because we are treating it as a stock , the supply of bills is drawn vertically , at .
22 Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’
23 I 've been treating it as a wart .
24 He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort .
25 Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’
26 But you do n't seem to be advocating it as a way forward ?
27 THINGS have deteriorated so far and so fast at Higgs & Hill that shareholders were lucky to be offered anything as a final dividend .
28 She says I should n't be treating it as a doll 's house , a playing place when I 'm young . ’
29 I 'm not giving it to you out of charity , I 'm giving it as a present to my son .
30 But there is enough to suggest one could be hailing it as a masterpiece in future .
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