Example sentences of "it [adv prt] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You look ready to dance with rage , and although we might collect a few pennies from them in return for our providing such a spectacle I hardly think that we could put it on as a permanent entertainment ! ’ |
| 2 | Er , well , she she 's not being supported by the commission for year one , and in fact she wo n't be supported for year two either , so the thing that , I I 'm I 'm I put it in as a potential budget |
| 3 | Write it down as an odd . |
| 4 | Everyone laughed it off as a typical piece of board-room exaggeration . |
| 5 | When he had met Ivy at Crepi 's dinner party her appearance had struck him as so wilfully bizarre that he had written it off as a freak effect , as though all her luggage had been lost and she 'd had to raid the oddments put aside for collection by the missionary brothers . |
| 6 | He took a wagonload of the spoiled crop to San Francisco and passed it off as a Peruvian delicacy . |
| 7 | You may remember that AT&T 's original intention in setting up USL was to one day spin it off as a separate company . |
| 8 | Be that as it may , I shall be philosophic if you prove unworthy of this not inconsiderable investment — I can always write it off as a little deficit financing — but if you wish to continue with our relationship you must be prepared to place some real trust in me . |
| 9 | And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world . |
| 10 | If no-one answered soon he would have to chalk it up as a wasted trip , and Montgomery would not be amused . |
| 11 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 12 | Anna Wolska , heiress to the palace of Wilanow outside Warsaw , and the Potocki and Branicki collections in it , has offered to set it up as a public institution . |
| 13 | John summed it up as the super sixties , sobering seventies and ebb and flow of the eighties . |
| 14 | " In the organization too there were exponents of continued cooperation ; although Younger worked to defeat coalition in 1922 he did not rule it out as a future possibility . |
| 15 | Thus Leo I thought it better that his congregation should keep their fasting for the proper liturgical seasons publicly set aside for it , rather than carry it out as a private ascetic exercise . |
| 16 | Oh yes , I was assuming that erm a I do , I did n't really set it out as a formal agenda just as a |
| 17 | It marked it out as a patriotic party , in contrast to the general image it had earned during the 1920s . |
| 18 | There is nothing about this combination of themes which marks it out as the exclusive preserve of the right . |