Example sentences of "it as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Gary had come to think of it as The Hook . |
| 2 | She began to affect , in History lessons , an interest in the Soviet Union : such was the climate of opinion in this progressive boarding school in the north of England in the early 1950s , amongst the sons and daughters of tradesmen and doctors , industrialists and university lecturers , dentists and estate agents , lawyers and farmers , that her interest was regarded with awe and alarm or with frank disbelief , by those who did not dismiss it as the affectation which , in fact , at this stage it was . |
| 3 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 4 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 5 | But the party fell into the hands of those who saw it as the spokesman of the organized workers in politics , a view which combined the Left and Centre . |
| 6 | Reading the plan it is hard to see it as the centrepiece of what was billed as the world 's first green election , in September 1989 . |
| 7 | Gilbert Scott had said that it was ‘ on the whole , my finest church ’ , but Colonel Akroyd , who had built it as the centrepiece of his remarkable village of Akroyd , had never sufficiently endowed it . |
| 8 | So , some other understanding of alienation is required to validate it as the dynamic which establishes a proletariat and a property-owning bourgeoisie as Marx 's two antinomies predestined to engage in that life-and-death struggle ; and Marx seeks to provide it by postulating alienation as intrinsic . |
| 9 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 10 | I find myself dipping into my pocket and giving to causes that a decade ago I would have refused to because I would have seen it as the responsibility of the statutory sector . |
| 11 | The local enterprise companies in Scotland would want to consider the matter , although I doubt whether at this stage we should want to regard it as the responsibility of the LECs to give individual support or subsidy to people seeking such a qualification . |
| 12 | Bayonne has known many other military episodes than these ; moreover , you need only to drop one of the two n s from its name to recognize it as the birthplace of that sinister weapon , the bayonet . |
| 13 | Just choose the correct printer , and set it as the default printer from the menu option and you , your Star printer , and Windows will all be best of friends . |
| 14 | While society continues to idealize the two-parent family and regard it as the norm , there is a danger that remarriage will be seen as the solution to the individual and social problems associated with widowhood , marital separation and single parenthood . |
| 15 | Although he concedes that this kind of research is sometimes necessary , he deplores the tendency to regard it as the norm . |
| 16 | It is the fact of being the written form which establishes it as the standard . |
| 17 | Harry would have felt inclined to dismiss it as the invention of a hysterical mind but for the fact that Mrs Diamond 's mind was clearly anything but hysterical . |
| 18 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 19 | HW = Husband sees it as the wife 's decision HJ = Husband sees it as a joint decision HH = Husband sees it as the husband 's decision WW = Wife sees it as the wife 's decision WJ = Wife sees it as a joint decision WH = Wife sees it as the husband 's decision . |
| 20 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |
| 21 | A Northern force faced with several desecrated graveyards and missing bodies in 1986 found it easier to describe it as the work of vandals . |
| 22 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 23 | Glass exploded and shattered all around it as the storm wind and rain blasted down the corridor at them . |
| 24 | They saw that how that , they saw the Chinese problem essentially as one of exploitation and that how that as soon as , that they saw it as the land problem |
| 25 | He accepted it as the word of God . |
| 26 | Then , having discovered the true meaning , we must accept it as the word of God . |
| 27 | Only one : nose ( for noise ) which seems worse than it is , because the misspelling has produced a rather comic word , and we may feel she ought to have recognised it as the word it is , rather than the word she meant it to be . |
| 28 | In principle , though I think it 's very difficult , as I understand it right now , you 've got to go through a rather unfriendly session of training the computer to respond to your voice , and if you say something in a slightly different way later on it may not recognize it as the word that you had previously trained it on . |
| 29 | One , in the grounds of Tullie House Museum just outside the fort gate , was 12.2m ( 40 ft ) by at least 67 m ( 219 ft ) , with a substantial plank floor over a solid foundation , and may have had a military function ; attempts have also been made to interpret it as the base for a rampart surrounding an annexe to the fort . |
| 30 | And they class it as the south . |