Example sentences of "treat [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , but let's say that you 're not prepared to pop back , let's say that you 're sitting there and you 've got from that point , you want , you no want to go to the house , right , now you 're not you 're not gon na treat as a twenty minute call back , let's kill that for a minute |
| 2 | It would be entirely wrong that A should be allowed to treat as a legal wrong that to which he has consented . |
| 3 | Why are we so ready to treat as a minor operation an alteration which involves a major transformation in the cat 's lifestyle and personality ? |
| 4 | A man is being treated for a partially-collapsed lung after he was stabbed several times in the arms and body . |
| 5 | His wife Colette suffered facial injuries and nine-year-old son Jamie was treated for a fractured elbow . |
| 6 | He 's being treated for a punctured lung at the town 's general hospital . |
| 7 | The Leeward Islands had tried to ignore Carlisle 's lieutenant-governor as early as the 1630s , and when the islands became royal colonies in the 1660s they were treated for a short time as separate communities , with each island being regarded as an individual colony . |
| 8 | One of the men was treated for a minor head injury , a statement said . |
| 9 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
| 10 | From now he will be treated as a Soviet offender , that is why he is not at Camp 5 … |
| 11 | The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage . |
| 12 | Here is how one observer describes this peculiar meaning of have : In the have causative the causer assumes the causee 's " readiness to serve " ; the causee is treated as a cooperative performer of the causee 's will , as someone to whom the causer 's will can be communicated ( either directly or by an intermediary ) and who will be neither unable to understand it nor unwilling to perform it . |
| 13 | This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries . |
| 14 | Where stock is taken in lieu of cash dividends it is in practice treated as a simple bonus issue and no Case V liability is considered to arise . |
| 15 | The Table also shows that cutting usually involves the wrist or forearm , which has resulted in wrist-cutting being treated as a distinct syndrome ( Rosenthal et al. 1972 ) . |
| 16 | This is done in Appendix C , but to anticipate briefly , the reasons depend in essence on two facts : ( a ) Whenever a property is qualified it remains a property , so that e.g. ( P P ) P reduces to P P ; ( b ) The property of an adjective can not normally be applied to another property-word but only to an E. Thus while ( P E ) P reduces from a purely structural point of view to P P , it needs to be treated as a distinct pattern when the final P is an adjective , since , unless the E can be taken into account , the structure will be literally incoherent . |
| 17 | Software is treated as a distinct form of intellectual property . |
| 18 | When the next Rushdie has his book put to the torch , incitement to violence over a book , whether for or against it , should be treated as a criminal offence . |
| 19 | The Attorney-General subsequently announced that libel was to be treated as a criminal offence , provoking protests against censorship from the local and foreign press . |
| 20 | The exception was in the treatment of the bar itself , which was often treated as a decorative eyecatcher . |
| 21 | So far labour has been treated as a passive agency responding to the pressures of market forces and managerial authority but how has labour reacted collectively to the loss of property rights in particular skills ? |
| 22 | Section 1(4) stated that in deducing any relationship for the purposes of s1(3) any relationship by affinity is to be treated as a relationship by consanguinity , any relationship of the half-blood is to be treated as a relationship of the whole blood , the step-child of any person is to be treated as his child , and an illegitimate person is to be treated as a legitimate child of his mother and reputed father . |
| 23 | The legal position appears to be ( see Thomas v Heelas 27 November ( 1986 ) CAT No 1065 ; Lewis v Averay [ 1973 ] 1 WLR 510 ; compare Ingram v Little [ 1961 ] 1 QB 31 ) that where a sale is made inter praesentes , it will be treated as a voidable sale thereby championing the security of transactions principle discussed in Chapter 11 . |
| 24 | Of course , this particular instance was treated as a Venetian holiday by the press , and no reader of the reports would probably have cared had the whole wedding party ended up in the canal . |
| 25 | The phrasing of the notes should be treated quite freely throughout , hence the rhythmic notation should only be treated as a general guide . |
| 26 | At present , Customs ' policy is to allow VAT incurred on holding company activities , unless it relates to exempt transactions , to be treated as a general overhead and recoverable according to its overall partial exemption status . |
| 27 | It was never treated as a political power . |
| 28 | The traffickers also demanded that they be placed in a special prison and not be forced to testify against themselves or their collaborators , although they dropped an earlier requirement that they be treated as a political organization similar to left-wing guerrillas who had negotiated with the government . |
| 29 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 30 | The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction . |