Example sentences of "it as a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This they make by chewing wood , masticating it with their saliva and then expelling it as a moist pulp which hardens as it dries . |
2 | Older people still regard America as a refuge ; younger people regard it as a new home . |
3 | ‘ If you were a true Christian , Ella , you would look upon it as a new beginning . ’ |
4 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
5 | Some or the political personalities saw it as a new political pressure point on the Westminster government . |
6 | This means that newcomers to the union would have confidence about using it , and not feel so anxious about it as a new and untried form of credit as they might if it was instead an advertised credit institution . |
7 | The CM-1300 is the second system introduced in three months from Tandem 's development partnership with NCR Corp and NCR added it as a new StarServer FT . |
8 | Having obtained unc we can adopt it as a new unc and repeat the cycle of approximation , which is known to be quadratically convergent : i.e. if unc is the true eigenvalue , then for small differences |
9 | If the amendment is seconded by another person who has not spoken on the original motion , the Chairman must accept it as a new motion , subject to the provisos that the amendment is not a simple negative of the motion ; is relevant ; does not cover ground that has been dealt with under a previous amendment ; and is not frivolous nor illegal . |
10 | I think about the year that 's gone past , perhaps , people who 've passed out of my life , and think of it as a new beginning , and I wish as Scots that we would hold on to it and perpetuate that tradition and get away from gathering around the T V in Hogmanay . |
11 | In the early 1970s an organization was established to govern karate on a world scale and to promote it as a new and fascinating sport . |
12 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
13 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) compiling his catalogue of specimens in the MCZ recognised it as a new species of Ophiolebes . |
14 | If you have to acquire it as a new one , it 's |
15 | He preferred another conception of the world , the conception of it as a familiar , warm , colourful , sound-filled place to be shared with others — and perhaps especially with Daisy . |
16 | If it 's not , you can turn the old one upside down and replace it as a temporary measure until you get the right one . |
17 | Often it was relatives or friends of us permanents , who used it as a temporary place to stay on arrival until they found bedsits or whatever . |
18 | She only did it as a temporary measures just |
19 | They have treated it as a cheap option , giving workers a minimum training and offering them the minimum resources and telling them to get on with it — basically because that 's good enough for the poor . |
20 | And she insisted the government has done the reverse by ‘ treating it as a cheap option ’ . |
21 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
22 | The subcontinent is increasingly being used for locations — and Hollywood is beginning to target the Asian community , seeing it as a vast untapped audience which could help bring the industry out of recession . |
23 | In fact , I often look back to that conference and , for more than one reason , regard it as a turning point in my life . |
24 | Although nominally Producer and Script Editor for the series , neither John Wiles nor Donald Tosh had much to do with this serial , the former greatly resenting it as a three-month obstacle to his attempts to raise Doctor Who towards a more sophisticated and adult level . |
25 | But the Arts Council stepped in to buy the place in 1976 and re-opened it as a traditional theatre with Frank Carson in pantomime in December 1980 . |
26 | For example , followers of Islam would regard it as a blatant affront to the omnipotence of Allah/ God that He should be confined within a mortal frame , yet they accord Jesus an important role as a prophet . |
27 | They invited people whose backgrounds were very different to join this ‘ high class Jewish fraternity , ’ and tried to run it as a continuous party . |
28 | When it comes to the mother-in-law/son-in-law relationship , this is often a little less complicated , in spite of all those mother-in-law jokes that depict it as a continuous battle between a slightly hen-pecked , but still spirited little man , and his wife 's fierce , ugly , overweight mother . |
29 | It is interesting that Golgi himself , who got the Nobel Prize in part for this work , did n't believe that there were individual neurons within the brain , preferring to think of it as a continuous network of fibres , and he persisted with this mistake despite the evidence of his own staining technique . |
30 | example An essay which describes the narrative of Alasdair Gray 's novel Lanark and interprets it as a symbolic representation of the state of contemporary Scotland . |