Example sentences of "it [prep] an [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the craving returned , I could cope by contemplating it for an hour or two , until it went away . |
| 2 | ‘ I did it for an introduction before the films came out in Europe , ’ he says . |
| 3 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 4 | Erm but er I can appreciate obviously for you , particularly final year students , to have s y'know a single text which not all of you are not that keen on , but er some of you do see it as an advantage as well . |
| 5 | They talk about it as an expenditure and not as an investment . |
| 6 | There is also a particular difficulty with care for the unemployed ; not only is the research team unable to use return to work as an end point , but the patient also does not have it as an objective and he has therefore nothing to aim at . |
| 7 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't describe it as an assault but it was certainly reckless and dangerous play . |
| 9 | Erm so basically he 's still there and they 've got rid of me making it as an excuse but Charles as partner is his brother , Nicholas . |
| 10 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 11 | We then considered its claim to be scientific , humanistic and atheistic ; concluding that it was more accurate to describe it as an ideology than a science , that its humanitarianism was very real yet flawed , and that its atheism was fundamental to an understanding of the ideology . |
| 12 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 13 | The main thrust for use of videos as an aid came from the three Welsh areas — just under three-quarters seeing it as an aid that could improve training . |
| 14 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
| 15 | They see it as an indication that workers are moving out of jobs where they are no longer very efficient to areas where they are more productive . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's strange , and I just hope younger players do n't see it as an example that international football is something you retire from early . ’ |
| 17 | Please do not take it as an example that you may all leap to your feed to make your bids . |
| 18 | If he raises it , fine , you deal , deal with it as an objection but if you know do n't , do n't invite objections er . |
| 19 | The Tories regard it as an aberration that would be catastrophic for Britain 's system of government . |
| 20 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 21 | seeing it as an import so they 're taxing imports |
| 22 | Think of it as an investment that your tips will pay you back . ’ |
| 23 | I think she bought it as an investment and wants to sell . |
| 24 | Well that depends on whether you are actually doing it during an audit or doing it for other reasons , what they are looking for is that your system is getting better and that you have done the right things . |
| 25 | The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’ |
| 26 | I 'd have done it with an aeroplane but |
| 27 | We might be investigating it with an experiment or we might be doing some calculations on it . |
| 28 | When she has stocked it with an egg and its immobilised meal , she seals the vessel with a bung made from one final pellet . |
| 29 | In his 12-tone music , as Schorske observes , Schoenberg confirms a ‘ faith in a hard vision of the world that could both accept a pulverised reality and posit it in an order that was not inherent in it ’ . |
| 30 | Just place it in an envelope and send it to the FREEPOST address provided . |