Example sentences of "it as [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They classed it as attempted robbery , because I never hurt anybody . |
| 2 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 3 | The seller of the goods may wish to simply pass on the interest charges to the customer , or may wish to push up the price of the product and market it as zero interest finance . |
| 4 | We actually , people stare at our kids enough , we actually want to keep it as low key as possible , and behave in a proper way . |
| 5 | One could almost characterise it as Tippett-like dancing over Sibelian pedals , but that 's a very inadequate summation of a very rich and multi-faceted work . |
| 6 | We try to make it as much fun as we can . |
| 7 | The only way of doing this is to bring a supply of air to an internal lung , and there to extract from it as much oxygen as possible . |
| 8 | Either treat it as a feature in its own right , with a striking blind or shutters ; give it as much impact as possible and let the view and the light pour in . |
| 9 | I was never the friend of this power — it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERs — but it trusted me as its representative and I have done it as much harm in these dealings as I have you . |
| 10 | When ISI began to fail , or at least brought with it as many problems as it was solving , a new theory and strategy began to emerge , based this time not on imports but on exports . |
| 11 | To measure your window , treat it as two sections : the curved area and the rectangular section below it . |
| 12 | There are not so much two tiers to it as two storeys . |
| 13 | ‘ But I calculate it as four minutes . |
| 14 | One authority gives it as 310 light-years , another as 1,400 . |
| 15 | Save it as plain text to a file named pon.cli . |
| 16 | Remember to save it as plain text - you will get all sorts of interesting error messages if you do n't . |
| 17 | David Bowsher describes it as nociceptive pain that is not receptive ( does he mean responsive ? ) to opioids . |
| 18 | Bureaucratic skills were becoming as important to it as commercial flair , and the change of scale was introducing economists and businessmen to the idea of centralized planning . |
| 19 | And with a name like this , of course , it never cut it as Bright Promise , or as Horrid Warning . |
| 20 | Well I 've just defined it as constructural notion and am now going to show the point , having done that . |
| 21 | It 's known affectionately to those who fly it as Fat Albert . |
| 22 | Italicizing the pronouns may help to indicate the remarkable symmetry of the poem , if we read it as three quatrains and a couplet : each pronoun balances the other in frequency , as each person matches the other in self-deception and deception of the other . |
| 23 | The manufacturer who quickly and generously replaced the kit was able to identify it as three years old , and quite useless . |
| 24 | Crawford was again in a small role that commanded little attention and he could count it as more experience on the ladder to success . |
| 25 | Any insect touching it becomes inextricably stuck and very often buried within it as more resin flows around it . |