Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | At first the club treated it as a private matter and The Doc shook hands on a new four year contract . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the host society treats them as outcasts threatening the existing social order . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Instead , desanctification meant a growing tendency to treat him as a politician " like the others " . |
| 11 | While the stereotyped image of housework treats it as a single activity , women see it as consisting of many disparate ones . |
| 12 | AN all-party committee of peers yesterday condemned government concern over the proposed EC Social Charter as ‘ excessive ’ and recommended that the Prime Minister treat it as a basis for an agreement with her Community partners at this weekend 's Strasbourg summit . |
| 13 | Those who think of Pound as a great liberator from stiff and hidebound conventions will be disconcerted to find that Newbolt on the contrary treats him as an academic formalist . |
| 14 | For the first two weeks the office treated it as a joke . |
| 15 | whether it is not in the public interest to treat them as benefits ; and |
| 16 | He felt uncomfortable , uneasy at the way the Prince and Gaveston hardly spared them a glance whilst their companions at table treated them as if they simply did not exist . |
| 17 | A third view treats them as the forerunners of a managerial class destined to impose its own oppressive rule upon peasants and workers . |