Example sentences of "[vb infin] it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 May 1839 Prince wrote to Gould in Australia warning him of Swainson 's impending visit : ‘ Mr. Yarrell has just called and requested me to tell you that Mr Swainson is going to Australia whether to collect or to settle is not known at present but he considered it of importance that you should know it as quickly as possible not that either he or I think it can in any way affect you as you have so good a start and his wonted and well known irregularity of publication will surely militate against him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Did you enjoy it as much as you thought you would ? ’ |
| 3 | Why fool around with money , or taking teeth out , when I might not enjoy it as much ? |
| 4 | I am about his business and must accomplish it as best I may . |
| 5 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 6 | because it was well written up in the Wine Society I would descr describe it as nice , nice but innocuous . |
| 7 | Crawford was again in a small role that commanded little attention and he could count it as more experience on the ladder to success . |
| 8 | Now , Dorothea felt justly punished , for she was merely sad , and Isabel would in any case consider it as inevitable good manners to have refused . |
| 9 | He knew the machine like an old friend ( it would probably be the personality he 'd miss most ) , but he still could n't trust it as much as he trusted himself . |
| 10 | Needless to say , no telescope will show it as anything but a single speck of light . |
| 11 | They do n't analyze it as often as we do . |
| 12 | But I did n't feel it as bad this morning |
| 13 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 14 | The New Forest will be given a statutory status which will give it as great a level of protection as any National Park . |
| 15 | When our children grow up , we no longer make the decisions for them , but accept the decisions they make for themselves and their own families , and we must do it as constructively and cheerfully as we can . |
| 16 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 17 | " They could do it as well as anybody else . |
| 18 | Very good I wonder if we could all do it as well as that ? |
| 19 | Microcomputers can not store as much data as the larger computers nor can they process it as quickly . |
| 20 | She could suck it as easily as the sticks of liquorice she used to adore as a girl . |
| 21 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 22 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
| 23 | Tennyson is portrayed here as one who , despite his reservations about its temper , did understand science , and did not see it as antithetical to the sphere of imagination . |
| 24 | We do n't see it as much as a business or a pressure like he does . |
| 25 | This does n't mean you can have chips for dinner one day and a salad the next , but you should see it as more of a healthy eating approach — starting now ! |
| 26 | To someone without this discriminative capacity , either congenitally or because it has not been developed , a thing can present a blue appearance , but he can not see it as blue . |
| 27 | He can see it as blue ( that is , it can be the case that , on looking at it , he would take it to be blue if he had no reason to think otherwise ) only if he can discriminate between objects in respect of their being or not being blue . |
| 28 | The specific plan announced by Schuman had been drafted by Jean Monnet who certainly did see it as only a first step in a chain that would ultimately lead to political integration . |
| 29 | ‘ Sound would be a good means of access to the system for the visually impaired , but I do n't see it as obligatory . |
| 30 | The squeamish would doubtless see it as sadistic ; I see it as a test of character and inner strength . |