Example sentences of "treat them as " in BNC.

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1 We are not told that these are part of a continuing ritual , but we are encouraged to treat them as such by the similarity present in the three meetings which are connected with each other further by the Shakespearian language applied to each .
2 Thus women are caught in a double bind : if they take a ‘ compliment ’ at face value they confirm men 's right to treat them as ‘ open persons ’ , while if they ignore the remark or reply negatively they may be accused of rudeness and/or showered with abuse .
3 Where feminist psychologists recognize social differences , they , like conventional psychologists , tend to treat them as psychological variables of the usual sort , controllable , and equivalent to each other .
4 For example , the major criticism which parents made of social workers concerned their poor communications , lack of openness and honesty , failure to value parents ' strengths and to treat them as equals , and a failure to involve parents in decisions .
5 It is advisable to treat them as good value items which , if they should hold their prices , could provide an unexpected bonus .
6 By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so .
7 Being new , they will not appear in the golist and the computer will not know whether or not to treat them as indexing terms .
8 Yet they also point to the conflict between feminism inside art history , which often seems little more than a maker of changing the gender of the artist as hero , and feminism as a more complex , multi-focused , or interdisciplinary project which utterly transforms the objects art history usually studies by refusing to treat them as simply ‘ works of art ’ created by ‘ artists ’ .
9 If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine .
10 Initially , philosophers interested in reference ( with some notable exceptions ) did not pay a great deal of attention to indexicals ( Bar-Hillel , 1970 : 76 ) ; then they began to treat them as very special kinds of expression requiring contextual co-ordinates or indices , as sketched above .
11 It therefore seems most appropriate to treat them as cases of underlexicalisation , together with terms like " log " or " picture " discussed above .
12 There are arguments here , as there are in relation to mistake , that the law should impose a duty on men to consider consent , and therefore should treat them as reckless if they have failed to give any thought to the matter .
13 Agents and exporters should therefore treat them as within the existing system , and include T2 documents where appropriate .
14 The second question , therefore , is whether we can accept them as history , or whether we must treat them as myth and " demythologize " them , that is , assume that the miracle did not actually occur as a miraculous event , but that some spiritual truth is enshrined in the story in symbolic form .
15 The universities may treat them as advisory and act upon them only if they so wish .
16 I know that an election is coming , but as a conscientious Member I can not treat them as so much confetti .
17 He would not treat them as sources of law past that point , but his general responsibility when he believes that law has run out is to make the best new law he can for the future , and he might be concerned with past legal doctrine for special reasons bearing on that issue .
18 treated them as easy meat
19 While the Formalists had treated them as objective features inherent in literature itself , Richards 's emphasis was on the reader 's response to literature and on the evaluation of this response .
20 To check this , the researchers ran the entire test on one personality of each MPD subject , essentially treating them as normal .
21 Most women do n't really have a very high opinion of themselves , so if you start treating them as something special they think , ‘ Oh God , sooner or later he 'll find out the truth , and then he 'll despise me . ’
22 I remove the fry just before this stage ; gently syphoning them from their leaf , and then treating them as for fry hatched artificially .
23 They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude .
24 These are all parts of the switch-on mechanism because the switch-on mechanism depends upon a decent organization employing decent people and treating them as we individually would wish to be treated .
25 Instead of taking account of and sharing variations in earnings and living standards between spouses , whatever the number of marriages , and then treating them as individuals , the British system as described above has preferred to recognise the work of caring for the young , the sick and the old by giving credits which maintain the care-taker 's entitlement to the basic state pension .
26 It is just their dignity as selves that is at issue , and Mr Jones has chosen the most powerful humiliation of all , that is treating them as within the social control of their parents .
27 Finding out about the areas I am flying over instead of treating them as legs and turning points gives a new pleasure to flight .
28 During the course of the nineteenth century , archaeology moved in a quite different direction , becoming , like the earlier diffusionary theories , increasingly obsessed with objects as such , and treating them as having an independent behaviour in a manner which separated them from any social context and which amounted to a genuine fetishism or the artefact .
29 By contrast , the ( masculine ) discourses of knowledge weaken symbolic systems by treating them as ‘ true ’ : ‘ our masculine-dominated civilisation … has turned vital lies into fragile truths ’ ( 175/569 ) .
30 The name of ‘ Derrida ’ has been used in such a way as to imply that it refers to a real person who has certain ideas and theories which he has expressed in various books and essays , and which this introduction has tried to repeat , treating them as signifieds that can be represented in a number of different forms .
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