Example sentences of "to it as the " in BNC.

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1 But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’
2 However , he was much more explicit in his references to the nature of ‘ adolescence ’ , referring to it as the age of ‘ terrible peril ’ which had to be responded to ; the ‘ wayward forces ’ had to be ‘ rightly directed ’ , so that the ‘ new instincts and impulses , the new faculties and powers … shall be rightly exercised and trained , and that protection shall be given as far as possible against the temptations to which it is exposed ’ .
3 Baldersdale was en fête , or as near to it as the dale ever came , when Guardsman George Fawcett arrived back somewhat unexpectedly , from the war .
4 We shall therefore refer to it as the Fundamental Theorem of Vector Programming .
5 Paracelsus , the Swiss alchemist and physician ( 1493- 1541 ) , referred to it as the ‘ Archeus ’ — the light or energy that underlies the world of shadow or the material world .
6 She accepted it as a convenience , like an improved system of telephones ; she did not dedicate herself to it as the expression of a moral idea of comradeship and equality , the avowal of which could leave nothing the same .
7 ( One campus I knew of in a large industrial city used to be so strictly guarded that the students referred to it as the town 's ‘ second prison ’ . )
8 I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ !
9 This could be ( and has been ) achieved not only by investigative journalism and television documentaries , which do appear to have influenced the general level of awareness amongst American citizens to such an extent that Spiro Agnew referred to it as the ‘ post-Watergate ’ morality .
10 Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed .
11 I did not pay much attention to it as the time , because we had n't decided which peak we were going to attempt .
12 I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice .
13 This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem .
14 We label this line AD and shall refer to it as the aggregate demand curve .
15 ‘ Experts refer to it as the post-modernistic simulacrum , although I believe Knudsen himself thinks of it as fantasy realism , ’ he returned blandly .
16 It is the students who refer to it as the black magic course .
17 For brevity we can refer to it as the PCBCR .
18 The bird has a piercing yellow eye and I think an older generation of wild-fowlers still refers to it as the golden-eye although that name , strictly speaking , belongs to an entirely different species .
19 He would refer to it as the ‘ funny stuff what makes me happy , ’ claiming to live for it .
20 Throughout the book he referred to it as the monster or used another word which expressed his hatred for it .
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