Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] it as the " in BNC.

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1 Rochlin ‘ feminizes ’ masculinity to just the degree required to rehabilitate it as the dominant term in the masculine/feminine binary , and he does this through the by now familiar move of positing homosexuality as the inadequate yet threatening third term .
2 Since U/V became popular , green water has ceased to be a problem , but blanketweed has replaced it as the number one gripe of the pondkeeper .
3 Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm .
4 The Cabinet in turn chose to treat it as the beginning of the General Strike .
5 He had actually defended the town after another caller had described it as the most polluted place in the world .
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