Example sentences of "[v-ing] it as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she had hardly listened , dismissing it as tedious fantasy . |
| 2 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 3 | Since OCLC already have records from Missouri and New York Botanic Garden Libraries , I realised that a large proportion of our records would therefore already be in the OCLC system , and buying-in existing data is much cheaper than creating it as new records . |
| 4 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 5 | This legislation is designed not only to counteract the violence by harsh , emergency measures , but also to undermine the political nature of the violence by characterising it as mere criminality ; the hope being that it will diminish the level of public support for those involved . |
| 6 | One of the 15 BBC management task forces investigating the Corporation 's future has recommended the scrapping of all sponsorship — including the £1.2m Lloyds Young Musician — damning it as covert advertising . |