Example sentences of "[adv] treat [pron] as " in BNC.

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1 The intercept is the value of Y when X is zero , a pretty meaningless value when X is a mortality rate , as we noted above ; we just treat it as a scaling factor , needed to predict a given Y value from a given X value .
2 Do n't worry about whether what you find is ‘ genuine ’ or if you are ‘ making it up ’ : just treat it as a work of art .
3 just treat it as a number .
4 And just treat it as a
5 He was a man who was quite unable to relate to children and therefore always treated them as adults , an approach which she appreciated .
6 Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying .
7 ‘ Girls still treat me as a bitch and pull my hair , ’ said Vanessa .
8 Bitterness that their fathers still treat them as children .
9 We defined it as being prepared to take into account in choices , and have throughout treated it as the fluctuating disposition to take the look and feel of things into account in choices of ends and the facts about them in choices of means .
10 Confirming that the dead boy was James Bulger , who disappeared while out shopping with his mother on Friday , a police spokesman said a post-mortem examination had established the cause of death , but would give no details other than to say : ‘ We are now treating it as murder . ’
11 There is an important point here : ancient accounts of Greek relations with Carthage often treat her as a barbarian power whose dealings with the Greeks were uniformly hostile .
12 The basis of the receiver 's duty set out above was initially considered to involve the extension of the common law of negligence to supplement equity , but the courts now treat it as something which flows from the nature in equity of the relationship between the mortgagee and mortgagor .
13 US investors , on the other hand , simply treat them as alternatives to conventional bonds .
14 Yesterday civil service union leaders complained that security staff had initially treated it as a hoax .
15 Either treat it as a feature in its own right , with a striking blind or shutters ; give it as much impact as possible and let the view and the light pour in .
16 The most obviously myopic strategy is the one that ignores the dynamic aspects of the problem but instead treats it as a sequence of eight one-period problems .
17 The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began .
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