Example sentences of "he [verb] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pointed out to him the attraction of publishing so surprising a paper and urged him to do it as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | I 'd let him leave it as soon as possible |
| 3 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 4 | He regarded it as essential that men become more deeply committed to their work through the formation of professional/occupational groups , since for them an involvement in the family did not provide a sufficiently sound moral basis for continued existence : ‘ Men must gradually become attached to their occupational or professional life … |
| 5 | He described it as " regrettable " that positions taken in the UN Security Council by the EC 's two permanent Security Council members — the UK and France — had not been subject to prior agreement among the 12 EC members . |
| 6 | He described it as ‘ neither accurate nor fair ’ and has produced telling statistics to refute the allegation . |
| 7 | He pronounced it as two separate words , very deliberately . |
| 8 | In the space of one page he describes it as ‘ indescribably cruel and insane … savage , insensate , barely conceivable to the well-constructed imagination ’ , ‘ boring ’ and ‘ demoralizing ’ . |
| 9 | He describes it as imposed as a quite explicit deterrent without reference to the actual availability of work . |
| 10 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 11 | The countryman takes a great interest in the weather : he has to because his living is bound up with it ; and he observes it as closely as a scientist watching a long and intricate experiment . |
| 12 | As it came through Rose he encouraged it as much as he would have discouraged visits to any other neighbouring house . |
| 13 | In the first he regards it as antithetical to analytical reason , as truth to error , while in the second he sees it as complementary to it . |
| 14 | He sees it as European , a kind of intellectual chic , useful to our story . |
| 15 | When he was given a chance he enjoyed it as much as anyone else . |
| 16 | He interpreted it as spurious and ingratiating . |
| 17 | He throws it as hard as he can . |
| 18 | And looking at the Palestinian revolution ‘ trom a viewpoint higher than my own ’ he regards it as ultimately a revolt reaching to the limits of Islam , a ‘ calling for a revision , probably even a rejection , of a theology as soporific as a Breton cradle ’ ( p. 88 ) . |
| 19 | In the first he regards it as antithetical to analytical reason , as truth to error , while in the second he sees it as complementary to it . |
| 20 | From the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State , it is clear that he regards it as vital that King 's Cross should go ahead as an essential part of the entire project . |
| 21 | If he hit it as straight as Ben Hogan , he would never get beaten . " |
| 22 | He deserves it as much as anyone , maybe more , but I wish he would n't be so patronising . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He saw it as — I do n't know — a sort of betrayal ? |
| 24 | He was badly stung at the time , but later , being the reasonable chap he was , he saw it as reasonable . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 26 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 27 | But he kept it as spartan as all his previous homes . |
| 28 | Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ . |
| 29 | In construing the Act without reference to the Parliamentary proceedings , he treats it as decisive that in this case the taxpayers ' children were only occupying surplus accommodation and that it lay in the discretion of the school whether to grant such benefit to the taxpayers . |
| 30 | By the twelfth century he valued it as much as the source of money ; and in many cases knight service was commuted in practice for a money payment — for what in England was called scutage . |