Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] it as a " in BNC.
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1 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
2 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
3 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |
4 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
5 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
6 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
7 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
8 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
9 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |
10 | At the time of Cats , for example , there were lots of offers to turn that into a film , but his instinct was to keep it as a musical play and hold off the film offers . |
11 | Dean was making it as a star before Hopper was . |