Example sentences of "[was/were] treat [pron] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 2 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 3 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 4 | Where the programme is most revealing is in its assumption that the proper way of handling young refugees was to treat them as if they were entrants to a minor public school . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the thirteen-year marriage she was treating me as if I was someone the cat had brought home . |
| 6 | At least when he was condemning her he was reacting to her , personally and subjectively ; now he was treating her as if she were a stranger . |
| 7 | He was treating her as if he knew her , as if he cared what she thought , and she could n't even get her face under control . |
| 8 | There were angry calls from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street and , in the House of Commons , Labour 's Shadow Home Secretary was treating it as a gift from heaven . |
| 9 | He was treating it as a training exercise and said he would not have done it if the C1 had been before the C2 as he would not have compromised the C2 . |