Example sentences of "[noun] treat [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Filaret owed his eminence less to his holy office than to his son 's willingness to treat him as a co-ruler . |
| 2 | The old warrior treated it as a kind of personal adventure playground where he could drive through cherished projects such as the revival of the wartime Home Guard or toy with trifles such as the age of entry to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth . |
| 3 | Opening the conference Havel stressed that " in the extremely sensitive and risky stage of economic transformation of the post-communist countries , any attempt to treat them as a more or less institutionalized zone of semi-developed countries surrounding the prosperous countries of the European Communities [ EC ] and the European Free Trade Association [ EFTA ] would be an extremely dangerous step for all concerned " . |
| 4 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 5 | At first the club treated it as a private matter and The Doc shook hands on a new four year contract . |
| 6 | But it was nice to see all these old geezers with huge noses treating him as if he was a man . |
| 7 | Equity treats her as if she was the unmarried owner of it ; it lets her dispose of it as she pleases in her lifetime , it lets her leave it by will , it even lets her make contracts which can be enforced against it , and against it only . |
| 8 | What happens is folk , folk treat it as a diet and then when they stop the diet , they stop the habit |
| 9 | The people looking after chickens do not identify with individual chickens and , as has been said already , very large numbers of animals should not be being looked after by very small numbers of people who have no incentive to treat them as individuals . |
| 10 | They think that I 'm just a mousy old woman , and could n't possibly know what goes on — they 've taken away all confidential work from me and Mr. Lennis treats me as if I were a half-wit . |
| 11 | Miranda remembered howling as a twelve-year-old because Adam treated her as a child . |
| 12 | New Democracy , the antics of whose leaders had encouraged much of the media to treat it as a joke , was led by Count Ian Wachtmeister and had been formed in late 1990 as a populist " party of discontent " , campaigning on a platform which featured an overtly anti-immigrant stance . |
| 13 | The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal . |
| 14 | Once the royal family had been shown as human beings it was impossible to stop the media treating them as such . |
| 15 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 16 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 17 | At least you could tune out the gawkers when you did catwalk modelling , but down here , wandering through the crowd , people treated you as if you were — |
| 18 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 19 | This is akin to the defence of consent of the plaintiff , and Bramwell B. in Carstairs v. Taylor treated it as the same thing . |
| 20 | Thus the time spent on the settling-down and clearing-up stages varied from 7 to 45 per cent of the total session , and the introductory stage varied similarly , largely because some teachers treated it as a purely administrative matter to be dealt with as succinctly as possible , while others incorporated it into the session as the whole-class teaching in an arrangement otherwise dominated by group work . |
| 21 | It promises to be difficult enough without John and Kate treating me as if I 'm a sensitive convalescent . |
| 22 | A problem arises with the finale , which Beethoven marks Allegro ma non troppo ( like Toscanini , Brüggen treats it as an Allegro molto ) but there is no doubting that the work has a lot of fire in its belly . |
| 23 | The teachers treat me as an adult , but I 've always been very mature for my age . |
| 24 | Furthermore , the host society treats them as outcasts threatening the existing social order . |
| 25 | Whereas George treated him as his brother and gave him everything he had . |
| 26 | Simple extrapolation has been the pattern for five years now , to the point where the financial markets treat it as a game . |
| 27 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 28 | Two things may protect us : first , the Lord Cardinal treats me as his favourite nephew and that will afford us some protection ; secondly , our investigations safeguard us . |
| 29 | Instead , desanctification meant a growing tendency to treat him as a politician " like the others " . |
| 30 | Poland was surrounded by neighbours who were contemptuous of its existence and anything but trustworthy , and Poland treated them as such . |