Example sentences of "[vb base] it as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in doubt , test it as shown here . |
| 2 | It is an auxiliary language so people speak it as equals — and it can be learned fluently in a couple of weeks . |
| 3 | Leave it in place until it warms to body heat and renew it as required . |
| 4 | On May 22nd ( the day following his terrible vow against Elfed ) he writes up a typical entry : ‘ Went to see As You Like It as performed by Form 4 . |
| 5 | Second , Holyoak attacks the monumentality of The Galleries which , in his words ‘ is the latest in the big developers ’ move to privatise city centres — to eat up public space and reshape it as internalised , homogenised , security-patrolled private space' . |
| 6 | I would like to suggest that you take a piece of paper and rule it as follows ( see table on page 184 ) , including the headings Short Term , Long Term and Ultimate Goals , and separating them into two sections — Tangible and Intangible . |
| 7 | Quakers , evangelicals and Rational Dissenters could reach a similar commitment by their own intellectual and theological routes and understand it as having somewhat different implications for desirable social and political arrangements . |
| 8 | Try to extract the egg capsule from the wormery and keep it as described below . |
| 9 | They perceive it as standing for the interest of society as a whole , and are constrained by this ideological view to tolerate its infringements of their sectarian interests , providing that these are not too severe . |
| 10 | Alternatively , the designer may commence working in " free-space " and later declare it as having fu |
| 11 | So , when a movement is taught to you and you can not understand the meaning behind it , do it as directed , practising it a thousand times if necessary . |
| 12 | Most readers probably take it as explained by Tolkien 's preceding remark , ‘ To their man-children [ hobbits ] usually gave names that had no meaning at all in their daily language … |
| 13 | Let us for the moment take it as established that dog has a general sense , denoting the whole species , irrespective of sex . |
| 14 | It was too much inclined to wrap everything up and regard it as settled . |
| 15 | This is timber stolen from Indian lands and rainforests … we 're removing it because we regard it as stolen property |
| 16 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 17 | The position nevertheless remains that the possibility exists of parliamentary legislation inconsistent with the 1972 Act being preferred by an English court under the doctrine of implied repeal and , even if this possibility were removed , there would always remain the possibility of an express repeal , for notwithstanding this impressive accumulation of law and practice there is no shortage of political figures who insist that the sovereignty of the Parliament of the United Kingdom stands unimpaired , and plenty who are pledged to use that power to extract the United Kingdom from the coils of Europe in which they see it as enmeshed . |
| 18 | I generally approve of this restraint — I see it as serving some greater ‘ good ’ and , on the whole , as being applied reasonably fairly . |
| 19 | ‘ I see it as culminating in an annual event , perhaps a convention and a festival which would tie in with other events like Africa Oye . |
| 20 | Some see it as reflecting only an odd set of ancient taboos . |
| 21 | While the stereotyped image of housework treats it as a single activity , women see it as consisting of many disparate ones . |
| 22 | Clearly the relativistic approach of Becker is self evidently required in one form or another in any sociology of deviance , and it is perhaps a rather miserable reflection on the state of the discipline that such an elementary argument is ignored by those who see it as clashing with their struggle for admission to the club of natural science . |
| 23 | I see it as asking : ‘ What reasons do governments feel justify their vast spending on weapons and equipment , which are more important than : a ) public opinion , and b ) the knowledge that such armaments are bound to become obsolete in just a few years ’ time ? ’ |
| 24 | We can quote one as saying ‘ We see it as giving a distinctive edge to our marketing image amongst a predominantly business clientele . ’ |
| 25 | They also see it as giving the Irish government a status to negotiate with the British government on their behalf . |
| 26 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 27 | Some left-wing accounts of liberal corporatism see it as enhancing the economic and political bargaining power of labour by comparison with its economic disorganization under competitive capitalism or its political regimentation under state socialism ( Crouch 1975 , 1982 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Morally I see it as strengthening people 's faith , ’ he told me . |
| 29 | For we have already seen that there is no reason why , along with the mature elements of the superego which serve the interests of adjustment to reality , immature , primitive elements should not also become externalized in those aspects of the state which represent it as nurturing , protecting and providing some measure of wish fulfilment for the most regressive desires . |
| 30 | After building the circuit check it as follows . |