Example sentences of "be treat as if " in BNC.

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1 As a fair-minded man , you must accept that women are treated as if they are the sole cause of illegitimacy .
2 Newly acquired words are treated as if they contrast with ones already known , and so serve to narrow down earlier over-extensions .
3 Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright .
4 Where assets are finance by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright .
5 Where assets are financed by leasing agreements that give rights approximating to ownership ( " finance leases " ) , the assets are treated as if they had been purchased outright .
6 While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods .
7 Similar provisions apply to RFLs practising through an RB in respect of annual contributions , on the basis that share-owners and directors are treated as if they were principals .
8 Thus , three other categories of persons who are not involved in any manufacturing , are treated as if they were producers under s2 .
9 ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody .
10 Maybe this is why I am treated as if I 've polluted the town 's water .
11 They 're treated as if they 're mentally disabled and are sometimes even drugged .
12 They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder .
13 They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder .
14 He had concluded that the new strategy would eventually lead to a resumption of the armed struggle , but , more dubiously , had gone on to suppose that civil rights activities could be treated as if they were an armed insurrection .
15 In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date .
16 The emperor pronounced that a trust was due on these words as if , by prohibiting her from making a will , he had requested that she should make her brother heir : the wording is to be treated as if he had asked her to make over his estate .
17 This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas .
18 Mr Justice Cooke said that if a receiver failed to terminate a receivership although he had funds that would have achieved just that , then he should be treated as if his authority had ceased .
19 On appeal by the Crown , it was found that the Lord Ordinary had failed to give proper weight to Taxes Management Act 1970 , in particular that interest on overdue tax was to be treated as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it related .
20 I do n't want to be treated as if I 'm three years old and backward at that !
21 The suggestion is often made that a couple should not be treated as if they were living as husband and wife unless the man is actually giving the woman financial support .
22 Children are definitely not rational but love to be treated as if they were .
23 I wanted Anna to be liked for Anna , and not to be treated as if she were different .
24 Why should preferences that are obviously not equal in the minds of voters be treated as if they were ?
25 It is not to be treated as if it were a statutory definition .
26 Ferdinand VII could believe that , as in Spain itself , the years 1808–14 could be treated as if they had not existed and the ancient order could be restored .
27 He ordered that the proceeds of sale be treated as if they were the cargo for all purposes .
28 In other words , for this purpose , and for this purpose only , a minor was to be treated as if it were an adult .
29 It remains the law that a trade union is not , and is not to be treated as if it were , a body corporate , but a much wider measure of tort liability is now imposed by the Employment Act 1982 .
30 Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week .
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