Example sentences of "[vb past] it as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 2 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems a firm of accountants hired it as temporary accommodation while their offices were being refurbished and it 's due to be removed . |
| 4 | When I expressed my distaste , Gustave interpreted it as mere jealousy . |
| 5 | They were very positive about community care and saw it as natural development of their work . |
| 6 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 7 | Its members saw it as further evidence of his obsession for being Patrick 's Sacred Keeper , the title of the biography he wrote on the poet in 1979 . |
| 8 | The media , once again , saw it as further indication of encroaching madness . |
| 9 | He took it as some sort of betrayal . ’ |
| 10 | And things like Time Out and so on , and City Limits , tried on the listings in the culture front seem to be seduced by , on the one hand , the need to simply provide information in terms of the listings , or then they felt some kind of twinge of conscience and had to be counter-balanced by radical politics on the other side , which produced a completely split , a paper that you could tear in half and read it as two sort of separate things , and erm and they always erm and something like that always felt |
| 11 | I got your address from your driving licence — you gave it as further proof of your identity . |
| 12 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 13 | Yanto attached the crane hook to his latest sling of timber , steadied it as Tiny Bennion took the strain , and watched it disappear through the hatch . |