Example sentences of "not [verb] them as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 2 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 3 | These difficult questions should so far as possible be confined to those fields of law to which they are immediately relevant and I do not regard them as relevant questions under the Theft Act 1968 " . |
| 4 | Thus by prioritizing intention and relegating consequences as accidents — conveniently turning a blind eye to strict liability-corporate officials can proceed to commit corporate crimes because they do not perceive them as such in the first place . |
| 5 | In fact , the event was even more profound than that , because it was also an explosion of the four dimensions ( as well as , it is thought , a number of others , which almost immediately ‘ rolled themselves up ’ so that we do not recognize them as such — the matter and energy involved being only a secondary consideration ! |
| 6 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 7 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 8 | Being fascinated with the problems of developing highly professional staff , and having many years of experience in recruiting from almost every British campus , I could not accept them as good building stone and felt obliged to turn them down . |
| 9 | Here the first thing to check is whether they are slips or not : if the pupil can correct his own errors , do n't count them as serious spelling miscues . |