Example sentences of "and [verb] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not so ( we are told ) : Conservative advocates of tariffs and social reforms like old age pensions , wages councils , regulation of sweated trades were , Fforde argues , simply engaged in ‘ principled opportunism ’ ; this was ‘ not Collectivist Conservatism but expedient Conservatism ’ , and to see it as otherwise would be to allow oneself to be ‘ misled by manufactured appearances ' or what Fforde describes elsewhere as the gap between ‘ professed stance and true intention ’ . |
| 2 | Certainly he seems to define active life in terms of outward works and to see it as inferior to the inward experience of contemplation : Some people are doubtful as to which life is the more meritorious and excellent , the contemplative or the active . |
| 3 | Once you have passed the framing stage the only job left for you to do is to finish the back and make it as airtight as possible , to prevent any damp reaching the pressed flower material . |
| 4 | ‘ We try and make it as painless as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs will have liaison officers with the convoy and bring it as close as possible to Srebrenica . |
| 6 | So he took it and tore the shit out of it , and made it as ratty as possible , ’ says DiCillo . |
| 7 | Creggan followed suit and made it as difficult as possible for the Men to handle him . |
| 8 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 9 | Learn it , try and say it as fast as you can , do it in groups , as a round … |
| 10 | He urged all states " to back it and implement it as soon as possible " . |
| 11 | Perhaps the problem has been that the Americans have adopted Pop Art as a national institution and seen it as exclusively an American product , so I found the inclusion of the German painters , Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter , illuminating . |
| 12 | Breaking off a stout twig , he curled a foot under the window 's lower edge and lifted it as high as the rusty hinges would allow . |
| 13 | It is part of this recipe knowledge to remain emotionally detached and consider it as just another incident or another death , and to treat the dead body , for example , ‘ as a piece of meat ’ : a phrase used several times by policemen and women . |
| 14 | Take a line from the longer axis of the Southern Cross and extend it as far as Achernar ; the south pole lies about midway along it . |
| 15 | These ‘ eclectic ’ economists prefer to look at each element of the debate and assess it as dispassionately as possible in the light |
| 16 | In the 1950s , when the late Heinz Under was presenting Torontonians for the first time with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler in the York Concert Society series in Massey Hall , I will never forget the ecstatic moment , after a dozen tumultuous curtain calls at the end of the Resurrection Symphony , when the elderly maestro lifted the heavy score off the stand — and shook it as vigorously and as high as he was able , in homage to the great composer . |
| 17 | He went to the garage door and opened it as quietly as possible . |
| 18 | One part turns on the other and sees it as worthless , leading to the self-reproaches and relentless self-criticism of melancholics . |
| 19 | The second is the principle of integrity in adjudication : it asks those responsible for deciding what the law is to see and enforce it as coherent in that way . |
| 20 | They consider Northern Ireland to be their second home and visit it as often as possible . |
| 21 | The splash was dusty but still visible and , without much trouble , I found the beginning of the trail about twenty feet straight ahead in the wood and followed it as easily through the tangled trees and undergrowth as on the day before . |
| 22 | So he is dismissive about traditional action , defining it as ‘ the expression of settled custom ’ and glossing it as ‘ simply a dull reaction to accustomed stimuli ’ . |
| 23 | It does n't have to be followed slavishly , which can happen when a man wants to impose a schedule and organise it as formally as he has organised his work . |
| 24 | First , because farmers have paid a lot of attention to improving the quality of their output and doing it as efficiently as possible , but have not taken time to tell the consumer and the general public about the efforts that have been made . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 27 | And letting it as private . |
| 28 | However , an outside developer has expressed a serious interest in taking over the A-listed building and running it as both as a commercial mill and as a tourist attraction . |
| 29 | However , the way it reads COSE , the Unix people are ‘ not saying they are going to unify ’ and dismisses it as ‘ just a bunch of hype . ’ |
| 30 | However , the way it reads COSE the Unix people are ‘ not saying they are going to unify ’ and dismisses it as ‘ just a bunch of hype . ’ |