Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] it [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe one of the powerful merchants regarded it as an eyesore . |
| 2 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 3 | Some organizations see it as an extension of their production process , others as the means by which their product or service is brought to the attention of the marketplace . |
| 4 | King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz declared that the disaster was " God 's unavoidable will " , and government officials described it as an " accident " and due to " panic " following the collapse of a pedestrian access bridge , denying that a power cut had halted the air supply in the tunnel . |
| 5 | Independent soft-commission brokers regard it as an acceptable method of payment so long as they deal at the best price . |
| 6 | Rather than see this as a problem , the particle physicists see it as an opportunity . |
| 7 | A PRODUCTION of Macbeth has run into ‘ hubble , bubble , toil and trouble ’ over plans to run it without an interval in Darlington next week . |
| 8 | Anthony 's mother , Stella , 44 , threw bricks at the dog which was only dragged off the screaming youth after two neighbours attacked it with an iron bar . |
| 9 | keeps a cushion of air under the vessel so that really it hovers on top of the water and the air propellers drive it like an aeroplane |
| 10 | The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal . |
| 11 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 12 | Marxists argue that it derives from the needs of the capitalist mode of production , while elite theorists see it as an institutional-bureaucratic coincidence of interest . |
| 13 | Some saw literature and art as a relaxation from science , but others saw it as an extension . |
| 14 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 15 | While O'Neill and his supporters represented that visit as the Republic s de facto recognition that the North did exist as a separate entity and that doing necessary economic business with the North meant the Republic attenuating its claims to the territory of Ulster , the conservative Protestants saw it as an horrendous betrayal of the history and sacrifice of Ulster Protestants . |
| 16 | Many consumers are against it : about three out of ten say it 's never a good thing , and most others see it as an occasional necessity rather than as having positive advantages ( see Appendix I , Main survey ) . |
| 17 | Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement , others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives . |
| 18 | But the North 's recent comb-out of traditional industries leaves it with an imbalanced legacy and serious economic handicap . |
| 19 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 20 | Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically . |
| 21 | In a broadcast he made after the war , he described the journal as one " which had clearly failed of its purpose several years before events brought it to an end " . |
| 22 | ( The secret life of the apple NI 212 ) OK , so the pear did n't make it big in the Garden of Eden but the Romans worshipped it as an aphrodisiac , and consecrated it to Venus , Goddess of Love . |
| 23 | The Romans mixed it with an aggregate of broken stone , marble , brick and lava , and poured it over wood centering and into brick compartments . |
| 24 | The Tories regard it as an aberration that would be catastrophic for Britain 's system of government . |
| 25 | Four months later the Tories see it as an unqualified success , propelling the man who presided over it , Mr Michael Howard , into the political big league . |
| 26 | The thieves stole it from an industrial estate at Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire , where Robin Macdonald runs a small bakery . |