Example sentences of "to treat [noun sg] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So for the time being it would be prudent to treat money as a major variable in our relationship with crime and conformity . |
| 2 | Doctors are being urged to treat insomnia as a medical problem and will today get new guidelines on how to deal with it . |
| 3 | This may suit the trend to treat education as a local activity but quality assurance needs a comparison with broader standards . |
| 4 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 5 | On the face of things , President Carlos Salinas continues to treat energy as a special case , a no-go area for the free-market reforms he has applied to other parts of the economy . |