Example sentences of "[prep] it as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just thought of it as learning what other people have already thought of a subject … physics seemed so much more dynamic somehow . |
| 2 | They would far rather think of it as realising their strengths and weaknesses . |
| 3 | Do n't think of it as leaving . |
| 4 | This is the simplest component of legal aid , but alterations and adjustments to it make it best to think of it as encompassing a number of different types of help . |
| 5 | And then they can all be turn Then they 're happy they This is sort of lent if you like , they say donated but think of it as lent , it 's lent its electrons to the fluorines cos it wants to get rid of them and the fluorines wanted to take them so , it makes this nice bond . |
| 6 | We shall misunderstand nomadic society if we think of it as composed of tribes whose membership is determined exclusively by blood relationships . |
| 7 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |
| 8 | He wrote of it as coming from invisible seeds or spores . |
| 9 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 10 | To help decide on the relevance of a piece of information you can ask questions of it as suggested in Question Analysis . |
| 11 | Mr Murray made it clear yesterday that he would like the counties to accept the whole plan , not just parts of it as has happened with earlier committees . |
| 12 | In his Latin work Incendium Amoris ( The Fire of Love ) Rolle talks of it as kindling for the " fire which consumes everything which is dark " ( Prologue.4 ) , an element which he recognises as the final reality . |
| 13 | How can you conceive of something as painful , as hurting , without conceiving of it as hurting you ? |
| 14 | And in fact , if the argument above is sound , to conceive of a knee other than yours hurting in the way in which yours hurts is to conceive of it as hurting you . |
| 15 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
| 16 | Singleton J. disposed of it as follows , at p. 319 : |
| 17 | I 'm amazed that as many people came out of it as did , because there was some abuse happened there , beyond belief really . |
| 18 | If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community . |
| 19 | The chief characteristic of the Byzantine Church is the dome ; it represented the symbol of the vault of heaven and its builders developed constructional ability in domical form which enabled them to create many different types of design with it as covering and architectural feature . |
| 20 | Schibsbye ( 1965 : 24 ) suggests on the other hand that " the infinitive with and without to corresponds in the main to the two sides of the infinitive , the nominal and the verbal " : the infinitive with to is found in positions similar to those in which one finds substantives , adjectives and adverbs , while the infinitive without to " is generally closely connected with an auxiliary verb , and forms a single unit with it as regards stress and intonation " . |
| 21 | In particular I want to consider what conceptions skilled and unskilled workers hold ‘ in their minds ’ about their working environment and authority within it as represented by management and , conversely , what conceptions managers hold in their minds about the status and process of management . |
| 22 | A sum like this , though , would eat such a hole in it as to jeopardize his ordinary work . |
| 23 | Fold the paper into four parts and then make a template and cut round it as shown . |
| 24 | Clara often thought that Mrs Maugham 's attitudes towards the television typified her whole moral outlook ; before acquiring it , she had considered it infinitely vulgar and debased ; after acquiring it she considered all those without it as highbrows , intellectual snobs , or paupers , while still managing to retain her scorn for all those who had had it before the precisely tasteful , worthy and perceptive moment at which she had herself succumbed to its charms . |
| 25 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 26 | Let us say that the meaning of a statement is cognitive if and only if there is a certain belief such that one is speaking either insincerely or incorrectly if one makes that statement or assents to it as uttered by another without having that belief . |
| 27 | Nicholas Pevsner later referred to it as having a ‘ blustering High Victorian effect ’ . |
| 28 | If the company ‘ goes under ’ , I fear R will regard the years he has spent on it as wasted , it seems to be a feature of modern society that we tend to judge who we are and what we 've achieved , even what success is , by our work above everything else . |
| 29 | b ) Place strip 1 on your desk and carefully put the ¼ piece , from the second strip , beside it as shown on the side . |
| 30 | It has the advantage , however , that new parts can be made for it as required , because it is not mass-produced . |