Example sentences of "it as a [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search . |
| 2 | But how useful is it as a base from which to discuss the complexities of ‘ race ’ and representation in British cinema ? |
| 3 | WordStar used it as a base from which to build WordStar for Windows , a process that has continued with this latest release , which adds Windows 3.1 compliance amongst other things . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , in Coronation Street Catherine Cusack is presently giving her role as the nanny from hell some considerable welly , using it as a showcase for what promises to be her considerable talent . |
| 5 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 6 | I 'm not giving it to you out of charity , I 'm giving it as a present to my son . |
| 7 | He then sees displayed in a shop window , a fur coat priced at £500 , and decides he would like to buy it as a present for his wife . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that Gassendi and Boyle took care to find a place for God and the soul in their revivals of the theory , its adherents had perpetually to struggle against the undeniable fact that Epicurus had introduced it as a foundation for his explicit materialistic atheism . |
| 9 | You can also call up tables listing your expenditure on various items , and the program shows it as a percentage of your total income . |
| 10 | And she hoped Nigel would n't take it as a slur on his driving . |
| 11 | ‘ When the first maypole was erected the Gawthorpe people regarded it as a sign of their independent spirit . ’ |
| 12 | That 's because they see it as a threat to their political authority as the only representative of the people . |
| 13 | He was absolutely obsessed by his play , and might regard what he saw as wanton tampering with it as a threat to his whole personality . |
| 14 | Unusual coat colours and patterns can arise spontaneously by genetic mutation anywhere in the world , and breeders in different regions might quite coincidentally seize upon a colour mutation and henceforward seek to establish it as a mark of their breed . |
| 15 | Auguste would take it as a reflection on his honour if they were not , despite the unseasonable time of year . |
| 16 | Either treat it as a feature in its own right , with a striking blind or shutters ; give it as much impact as possible and let the view and the light pour in . |
| 17 | Some continued to make a stance and in 1982 I worked with a sergeant who lovingly took out his old city cap each nightshift and wore it as a symbol of everything which had been lost in 1969 , when , as the station graffiti had then affirmed , ‘ T.J.F. ’ and a fall from Eden had occurred . |
| 18 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 19 | ‘ You can take it as a pledge of my good faith . ’ |
| 20 | Many in France saw it as a route by which French prestige and French leadership within Europe could be restored . |
| 21 | For the England team , on whose success depends not only the financial viability of the counties themselves , but also the capacity of the game to attract young people to play and watch it as a part of their heritage , the preparation for Test cricket provided by the present hotch-potch is clearly unsatisfactory . |
| 22 | Both my husband and I accepted it as a part of our way of life . |
| 23 | Whatever it was I 'd taken from Sunil 's house — and I 'd only done it as a favour to him , after all — he could n't have said anything to Nassim about it . |
| 24 | If I may take one more minute just to convey this when I was a child in South Africa and we demonstrated and the police would come you know , ready to fire ready to kill if necessary and you had to calculate how you can avoid that situation and then you try in your normal life after the demonstration to do something against the regime to organize people and so on , and then like a juggernaut the state comes and destroys all the work that you and others have done for years and you just see it as a child of what your parents and others had done . |
| 25 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 26 | The Senate is notorious for closing ranks against any young politicians who try to use it as a springboard for something grander . |
| 27 | They saw it as a betrayal of their promise that by making a full confession Blake would be more leniently treated and felt that such a heavy sentence would deter any future traitors from confessing . |
| 28 | They far too seldom see it as a field in which British talents and interests can prevail and multiply . |
| 29 | She may take it as a slight on her ability as a mother . |
| 30 | It 's very common : you wear it on your chest ; you wear it as a bibelot on your body . |