Example sentences of "of treating [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The cost to society of treating them is immense . ’
2 Widnes meantime , according to their coach , Doug Laughton , have accused the League of treating them ‘ shabbily ’ over the Joe Grima affair , perhaps the most two-faced quote of the Eighties .
3 Finding out about the areas I am flying over instead of treating them as legs and turning points gives a new pleasure to flight .
4 The problems of social research are themselves difficult enough and ought to be approached in the spirit of treating them as sociological and methodological problems rather than philosophical problems .
5 Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort .
6 It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends .
7 I shall therefore take the liberty of treating her as a character , not utterly different in kind , though of course belonging to a very different social species , from Vic Wilcox .
8 An 11-year-old Leeds girl is attempting to divorce her parents , accusing her mother of treating her like a slave .
9 In this case I am satisfied that the doctors were justified in disregarding the written instructions of Miss T. and of treating her on the basis of an emergency .
10 If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ?
11 Now instead of treating you like a number , we 're going to treat you to a number .
12 Kaplan explains that the primary impetus to his project was the sense that modern interpretations of the Adagietto have strayed from the composer 's intentions with regard to what he calls ‘ the current fashion of treating it as a sombre movement played at a funereal pace . ’
13 It is all too easy to make the mistake of treating it as a purely physical problem that can be overcome by renewal , as was discovered by costly experience in the USA during the 1960s and in Britain a decade later .
14 Victoria 's output of Masses , and of motets , was much smaller — no more than a score — eight of them being modelled on his own motets , though he was much more selective than most of his contemporaries , borrowing only sparsely from the model instead of treating it almost as the theme for a series of variations as Palestrina does with ‘ Assumpta est ’ and de Monte in most of his Masses .
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