Example sentences of "[vb -s] it as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seaforth also tops the line 's efficiency league , ahead of European ports of call , and ACL uses it as the first and last calling point to take advantage of the growing links with the Mediterranean , Northern Europe , the Baltic States and Ireland . |
| 2 | first finds the key of the record found at the beginning of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 3 | last finds the key of the record found by the end of the selected trail and establishes it as the current record . |
| 4 | For instance , one of the manuscripts containing a copy of only Book 1 , describes it as the first part of the book called " The Mirror of Contemplation by Canon Walter Hilton " ( Lansdowne MS 362 : Prima pars libri qui dicitur Speculum contemplacionis — Walterus hiltoun canonicus while one of the few manuscripts to contain Book 2 alone refers to it as " the secunde part of the reformyng of mannys soule drawyn of maister Watir hiltone hermyte " . |
| 5 | Combined with their reluctance to enter the war , the Turks entertain great hopes of their army , upon which a major portion of the budget is spent : and they can not fail to recognise something ludicrous in an attitude which , at one moment , abhors the idea of fighting and at another lauds it as the noblest activity of man . |
| 6 | In continuous processes , a filter medium containing manganese dioxide oxidizes the iron and removes it as the ferric hydroxide . |
| 7 | He regards it as the greatest force at man 's disposal . |
| 8 | She knows love , and regards it as the daily currency of life . |
| 9 | He regards it as the Big Smoke . |
| 10 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 11 | Georg Simmel 's analysis of a Zweierverbindung , a ‘ union of two ’ or ‘ dyad ’ as it is usually translated , defines it as the minimal social unit , which depends always on ‘ immediacy of interaction ’ , there being no super-individual unit to which either party can also belong ( as with larger group-structures ) . |