Example sentences of "treat it as [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And she insisted the government has done the reverse by ‘ treating it as a cheap option ’ .
2 Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain .
3 ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’
4 In each case the intention will be to emphasize the artefact 's constitutive character , rather than treating it as a mere reflection of social relations , that is a ‘ human mirror ’ .
5 So far we have focused on the time-depth of vernacular variants in English , using ( h ) as an example and treating it as a binary variable ( we have assumed that in such words as hall , hit it is either pronounced or dropped ) .
6 Kaplan explains that the primary impetus to his project was the sense that modern interpretations of the Adagietto have strayed from the composer 's intentions with regard to what he calls ‘ the current fashion of treating it as a sombre movement played at a funereal pace . ’
7 Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’
8 When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government .
9 Why note use a battery-backed SRAM ( static random access memory ) in place of the EEPROM , plugging it directly onto the computer bus and treating it as an other RAM in the system ?
10 Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’
11 Since the Paris Opéra was such an exceptional institution , and its orchestra and chorus so numerous , all French writers felt obliged to treat it as a special case .
12 But you 've got to treat it as a special case
13 You should treat it as a straightforward job of work and get on with it .
14 In Ball , above , the court mentioned the " aimed at " doctrine but did not treat it as a separate element .
15 I hope that employers , government and trainers themselves will treat it as a serious attempt by the trade unions to contribute to the debate on training for the industry .
16 Her advice is to try and treat it as a normal meal .
17 ‘ We 'll treat it as a scaphoid fracture .
18 When the Green party was formed 20 years ago , many treated it as a political joke and dismissed its members as a bunch of idealistic hippies .
19 If most of what was sometimes called ‘ the payroll vote ’ attended , the critics would have to carry seven-tenths of the backbenchers and if this had ever happened , the press would have treated it as a total collapse of confidence in the government .
20 ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’
21 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 .
22 At first the club treated it as a private matter and The Doc shook hands on a new four year contract .
23 If , a week ago , someone had told her it might happen to her she would have laughed and treated it as a huge joke .
24 The press , slow to grasp the significance of what had happened , treated it as a light hearted story about bleached hair turning green . ’
25 The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal .
26 We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means .
27 ‘ My Lords , I have already disclaimed the intention of discussing the scope of the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman but , even if I treat it as a general rule , there are many indications in favour of a liberal attitude towards the exceptions contemplated but not spelt out by Lord Diplock .
28 Fine if you could chop it away from feeling and treat it as a mere sensation .
29 Thus if we can categorize or anchor information , we can also do the opposite : we can particularize information and treat it as a special case , thereby negating , or criticizing , a strategy of categorization .
30 Treat it as a big joke .
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