Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] it as [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dean was making it as a star before Hopper was . |