Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 3 | To John Baxter this was rather ‘ solemn mock-Soviet montage ’ but others have more rightly seen it as a very effective expression of that energy which ordinary people had in abundance but which the America of 1934 so tragically left untapped . |
| 4 | The historian , Robert Currie , has justly described it as the ‘ architectural monument to Methodist ambitions at the beginning of the twentieth century ’ . |
| 5 | Had n't she finally made it as an integrated human being without the help of her father ? |
| 6 | In sum , in the contention which attended or , as some might prefer , the dialectical process which generated the structural change represented by the measures contained in the Reform Bill , the Whigs by proposing and the Tories by opposing them finally identified it as the exclusive issue on which people would stand up and be counted , for or against , yes or no . |
| 7 | The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation . |
| 8 | But professional specialists themselves have largely rejected it as a solution . |
| 9 | We have always seen it as a milestone on the road to closer integration and closer unity . |
| 10 | Although the Club is a private one , we have always seen it as a service to the local community , particularly the younger members . |
| 11 | Giving the vote , in effect , not only to men like Goldsborough who had always had it as a birthright , but to men like himself and Ben Braithwaite 's father who had come up the hard way . |
| 12 | The Soviet defence minister , seeking to justify the action , claimed that organised attempts were being made to establish a ‘ dictatorship of the bourgeois type ’ in the area ; the Lithuanian president , Vytautas Landsbergis , saw the conflict as a result of the ‘ fifty-one year confrontation between Lithuania and the USSR ’ , and the Russian president , Boris Yel'tsin , more forthrightly described it as an ‘ offensive against democracy ’ . |
| 13 | We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means . |
| 14 | Barry Gray , spokesman for People Against the River Crossing , also described it as an " astonishing change of heart " . |
| 15 | Carritt bought it , correctly identified it as a lost early work , and magnanimously sold it to the National Gallery , London , far below the market price . |
| 16 | And the computer successfully identified it as an Exocet . |
| 17 | Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax . |
| 18 | Federalists and functionalists alike regarded it as a great achievement and a decisive breakthrough in the fight for a united Europe , and immediately set out to make the new body a more effective organ of integration than was apparent in its charter . |
| 19 | For example , relations with the Emperor Bao Dai , who was to be told on Acheson 's instructions , when he arrived back in Saigon in October 1950 , that many people including a great number of Americans , had been unable to understand the reasons for his ‘ prolonged holiday ’ on the French Riviera and had indeed misinterpreted it as an indication of lack of patriotic attachment to his role of Chief of State . |
| 20 | I 've never used it as a technique like Steve Vai — or there 's a British guitarist , Jan Cyrka , who does that . |
| 21 | The Labour party has never chosen it as a subject . |