Example sentences of "[pron] treat [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , whilst they may encourage an atmosphere of informal comradeship and sociable learning , college teachers are not your equals and you should not expect them to treat you as such . |
| 2 | ‘ She treated me like a workman and I treated her as the owner . ’ |
| 3 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 4 | I was feeling so bad that I treated it as a kind of moral victory that I was able to empty most of the water out of the obviously Gav-filled kettle and leave the level at the minimum mark . |
| 5 | I treat it as a compliment that people say I 'm a marked man now , though I doubt it 's true . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | She was determined to allow nobody to treat her as a child in future — not Sam , not Adam , not Elinor , not Buzz , and certainly not Miranda . |
| 8 | Fergus felt a surge of real anger now , because how dare she treat him as an inferior , how dare she speak to him as if he was no more than one of her serfs , a possession , a pawn , a thing . |
| 9 | After three years fostered to a kindly couple who treated her as their own , she went back to live with her mother . |
| 10 | Bad enough to feel the way she did , let alone have to spend time with a man who treated her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 11 | Builders were treated as craftsmen and learnt to work alongside this new generation of client , who treated them as a fount of all wisdom . |
| 12 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 13 | and you treated it as a function of a function . |
| 14 | And when you treated it as a function of a function you get that that thing inside there was the function |
| 15 | I kept a set of clothes at my Mother 's house — she treated me as a contemporary , so allowed me to do as I wished — and on Friday afternoons , I 'd catch the bus from school to spend the week-end there . |
| 16 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 17 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 18 | She treated him as a malnourished curiosity , swooping down on him with tender cluckings , and seductive titbits — a crab claw , a lychee , a chocolate truffle — asking him to describe God , or Heaven , or sin , treating him as a confessional , trying to dress him up as a cardinal , showing him off to her friends . |
| 19 | She treated him as if she were his prep-school matron . |
| 20 | It can be very nice for an older woman to have a partner who treats her as an equal , ’ says Dr Tysoe . |
| 21 | This , showing that he is interested in what they have said unlike Banquo who treats it as a joke . |
| 22 | You treat them as what they are — squares of painted canvas . |
| 23 | Quoting extensively from a textbook in a PhD thesis , for example ( especially if you treat it as an authority rather than as something for critical comment ) is likely to give the wrong impression : that you are a beginner rather than an expert in your subject . |
| 24 | The secondary premise of Sean 's Show , as described by producer Katie Lander , is that ‘ he 's being controlled by scriptwriters who treat him as a sitcom character . |
| 25 | He could be photographed using the concept keyboard ( and outgrowing the available programmes ) , being squeezed half-way into a hotel loo ( as part of the Access Group ) or simply having a laugh with friends on the scheme who treat him as an equal . |
| 26 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 27 | We treated her as a girl with problems , not a problem girl . |
| 28 | ‘ WE TREATED it as a hostage-taking ’ , says John Dalzell , director of communications for the Montreal Police Force . |
| 29 | It could be just the way we treat you as a customer . |
| 30 | This then set the agenda for how we study the brain ; we treat it as a large reflex arc and trace the circuit from the stimulus ‘ analysers ’ to the motor system . |