Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It grew and grew , but still kept to its tunnels , some of which it enlarged as it grew . |
| 2 | This is significant , because there has been a period during which it looked as though , because of the societies ' successful opposition in 1990 to the then Italian Foreign Secretary Gianni De Michelis 's plan to site Expo2000 in the Veneto , the Italian government would no longer pay for the Unesco office . |
| 3 | MI6 was greatly upset by Churchill 's decision to create Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) , which it saw as infringing upon its sacred duties . |
| 4 | It successfully portrayed itself as having the solution to Britain 's economic problems which it saw as being due to excessive State intervention in every sphere , and to the dependence mentality which this produced . |
| 5 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |
| 6 | The ANC , while expressing delight at their decision , nevertheless continued to call for the dissolution of the tricameral parliament , which it regarded as essentially racist . |
| 7 | It referred disparagingly to ’ comprehensive conformity ’ and bemoaned the departure of grammar schools , which it described as having taught rigorously , maintained discipline and specialised in the production of excellence . |
| 8 | The demands of the rebel RPF included the return home of all Rwandan refugees and the overthrow of the Habyarimana regime , which it described as " corrupt and incompetent " . |
| 9 | To her it sounded as though the driver was being truthful . |
| 10 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 11 | She tells me it felt as though she was living in a violent void , that she was losing touch with everything until … ’ |
| 12 | In a letter to the policy boards of the two institutions on Sept. 18 , the Institute of International Finance ( IIF — representing 184 banks and financial institutions worldwide ) criticized what it saw as IMF " tolerance " of overdue interest payments to the banks , claiming that such arrears discouraged the banks ' involvement in the Brady Plan . |
| 13 | If Britain wished to retain some semblance of leadership in Europe or even to maintain what it regarded as its special position there vis-à-vis the United States , some new arrangement would have to be found . |
| 14 | The court declined to adopt what it described as ‘ the geographic fiction ’ that discovery required mere acts of preparation abroad , and found the distinction between parties and non-parties equally lacking in merit as a basis for decision . |
| 15 | However , the agreements broke down almost immediately , the Armenian side on Feb. 4 declaring them null and void and suspending its participation in further talks in protest at what it described as attempts at " forced deportation " of Armenians from villages in Azerbaijan 's Khanlar region on the pretext that their security remained under threat . |
| 16 | Throughout 1989 China had been concerned at what it described as Taiwan 's " dollar diplomacy " aimed at " buying " recognition from a number of poorer countries . |
| 17 | The Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) held on Dec. 14-16 what it described as its 40th congress , and the second since the change of name from Bulgarian Communist Party in April 1990 . |
| 18 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |