Example sentences of "it as a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use it as a base and travel . |
| 2 | Keeping some form of consistent documented proof of bullying is essential , says Adams , because many firms fail to recognise it as a problem and suspect the victim may be acting out of malice . |
| 3 | Until 1957 the French news agency , Agence France-Presse , had no legal status : rival agencies and French communists were among those who presented it as a state or of official agency . |
| 4 | If we want to understand the functioning of a pay-roll system of a local authority we could see it as a system and the near environment will include the other departments of the local authority as well as the banks , building societies and other financial institutions . |
| 5 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 6 | If he fixed a price with the buyer , and the buyer asked for Modigliani 's address , the painter was likely to give away his work at a lower price or offer it as a present if the purchaser was shrewd enough to take him out for a meal and a few drinks . |
| 7 | Warner 's only chance with Black Fury would have been if the serious critics had hailed it as a masterpiece and as a great breakthrough , but on this occasion the critics were all too aware of the stresses and strains that had been created by the processing of an authentic theme into a melodramatic format . |
| 8 | I suppose I have always thought of it as a possibility but his actual decision to marry was a surprise . ’ |
| 9 | With mild sciatica , it 's sensible to regard it as a warning and be very careful about how you bend and lift . |
| 10 | Eva took it as a sign that she was going to get better . |
| 11 | Despite the increased deficit , IMF officials holding talks in Warsaw with the Polish government expressed satisfaction with the vote by the Sejm , seeing it as a sign that the government could push its programme through parliament . |
| 12 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 13 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 14 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 15 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 16 | The north is at the bottom , and I think it helps if you stop thinking about it as a map and you think about it as a birds-eye view , a helicopter view , erm and then the whole thing begins to make sense . |
| 17 | The Jolly Farmers has been demolished , but I remember it as a brick and pantile structure at the top end of the town . |
| 18 | His grandfather created a fantasy.But he does n't see it as a folly as he grew up with it . |
| 19 | The most feasible means is to pump it as a gas or liquid through a pipeline to the ocean , where at 500 metres , most of it would stay out of contact with the atmosphere for many years , since liquid carbon dioxide has a density greater than seawater . |
| 20 | Use it as a hand-cream or face-cream for drier skin . |
| 21 | Use it as a truncheon if it is fairly short , smashing at a hand or any part of a body that comes within range as it moves towards you . |
| 22 | They took it as a snub that Down failed to field at anything approaching full strength and now want to show that they are a match for the real thing . |
| 23 | Even to him it was now barely imaginable , and other eagles he mentioned it to seemed to take it as a lie and untruth , and were angry at him for trying to delude them . |
| 24 | You can stew , bake it , use it as a filling or drink its juice . |
| 25 | I 'll repair it as a favour if my plans go through . ’ |
| 26 | It was not until Evelyn Underhill ( 1875–1941 ) and Dean Inge ( 1860–1954 ) began to consider mysticism seriously that Anglicans started to see it as a spirituality that was authentically Christian . |
| 27 | We know he had a family — six of them have already been mentioned — but not whether they went on holiday nor where ; although here we may make an important cultural assumption : if we assume it as a norm that families go on holiday , a fact of life as inevitable as having a father , we might divide it into Given New The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan , near Indian settlements . |
| 28 | The pharmacist saw it as a breakthrough and it was not done for personal profit , said the lawyer . |
| 29 | is it , if you , if you 're using , if you 're gon na use it as a pub as well |
| 30 | And I 'm afraid the young men used to use it as a peephole whilst the young ladies were in a state of undress . |