Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] it as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needs a powerful machine to run it at a reasonable speed but even if you do n't have such a machine you need to know about it as a sign of things to come . |
| 2 | In the cool light of this brighter day it was hard to conceive of it as a visitation of demons . |
| 3 | So if four of us were to work on it as a group , |
| 4 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 5 | The first is to look upon it as a simple riddle to which the Scribes seemingly had no answer . |
| 6 | Now , for the first time … they are asked to look upon it as a question of human nature , of equal interest to men and women , as a question of the heart , the soul , the affections , the whole moral being . |
| 7 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
| 8 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 9 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 10 | She was n't much of a drinker either — did n't even particularly like the taste of alcohol , but she 'd have to look on it as a necessary medicine . |
| 11 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 12 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 13 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 14 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |
| 15 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
| 16 | De Gaulle made limited overtures to all sides — offering the FLN an honourable truce ( " paix des braves " ) but refusing to negotiate with it as a political force ; throwing some rhetorical sops to the integrationists but refusing to embrace the cause of integration ; telling the army that outright victory should be its objective , but also saying that no resolution reached against the will of the Algerian people would endure for long . |
| 17 | With firm reassurance and explanation the pain either disappears ( usually within three months ) or the patient learns to live with it as a minor nuisance . |
| 18 | This in turn means that instead of patronising or colonising the community , existing statutory and voluntary agencies are going to have to live with it as an equal ’ . |
| 19 | Where a convergent or divergent margin has a significant transform component it is appropriate to refer to it as an oblique-slip margin . |
| 20 | There is no logical starting point , since we bring to a literary text simultaneously two faculties , however imperfectly developed : our ability to respond to it as a literary work and our ability to observe its language . |
| 21 | It is debatable how far young readers should be automatising the reading skill , or attempting to think about it as a conscious act . |
| 22 | You can think about it and it 's very useful to think about it as a as a distance measure in a sense . |
| 23 | It is tempting to think of it as a felt tendency , so that one is somehow aware of where the mind is going . |
| 24 | He preferred to think of it as a meaningful social comment , which it certainly was not , otherwise the dialogue and plot might not have been so banal . |
| 25 | Better to think of it as a big , V8-powered luxury automatic saloon of unique character and style that , at £91,500 , costs about what a Mercedes dealer will take off you for a V12 Mercedes S-class with a few extra bits . |
| 26 | Despite the MIDI nature of the JMP-1 , it 's useful still to think of it as a basic preamp . |
| 27 | If you try to think of it as a closed totality you get into the problems of historicism ; if you try to think of it as entirely differentiated , then it becomes meaningless since there is no necessary connection , positive or negative , to anything else , nor would any one history produce any effect on another . |
| 28 | Although I know it 's a problem in the eyes of the public and the Health Service , I try not to think of it as a problem personally , y'know what I mean . |
| 29 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 30 | To follow a rule , e.g. the rule for use of the word ‘ pain ’ ( the rule embodied in the concept of pain ) , is not to check , as it were within oneself , on whether this new sensation resembles the original one and , if it does , to think of it as a pain . |