Example sentences of "it as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Esther had quite as hard a time of it as Annie , one might feel , but even so , Moore 's spirited novel can be thought to settle for an anodyne poverty . |
| 2 | Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) . |
| 3 | You only turn to it as people climb mountains and cross deserts — to find out what you are made of by doing what you hardly dare to do . |
| 4 | Approached it as lovers approach each other after a quarrel , waiting to see how it would respond . |
| 5 | Now I see , he wrote , that I must abandon it as I have abandoned everything else . |
| 6 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 7 | At the start of the cross wind take-off apply full rudder in anticipation of the swing into wind , and then reduce it as soon as it becomes effective . |
| 8 | ‘ You are sitting here because you have the power , and if that is true , then you can use it as well for us as against us . |
| 9 | Still caught in a clench of emotion after the effort of the ceremony , he had accepted a spilling cup of whisky from Donald McLaggan and drained it as though it was milk to quench a thirst . |
| 10 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 11 | Commented Al Purdy , ‘ with ( this book ) Cohen brought to near perfection the techniques and rhythms of his first book ’ ; Eli Mandel — one of Canada 's most astute critics — speaks of it as ‘ a kind of gloss ’ to the Sabbath service , noting its rich diversity in subject and tone , and emphasising that it is ‘ not a random collection of lyrics . |
| 12 | But you can take it as read that you have the contract . ’ |
| 13 | But resemblance can not explain how a thinker could experience one object as standing for another ; for how could the fact that a particular datum is similar to other things mean anything to a thinker unless he experienced it as being like many others — that is , unless he grasped it , not just as a particular but as an instance of a kind ? |
| 14 | After they have gone to the ball , Cinderella , with a giggle , picks up her broom and gives it the same lesson , using it as a partner . |
| 15 | Perhaps a slow , gentle easing up with as little weight on it as possible ? |
| 16 | We are ready and willing to bring further pressure on them if we see it as necessary in the future . ’ |
| 17 | From Bailey 's first thrust to Simon Smith 's closing dig there was only one side in it as Bedford stumbled to their fourth defeat in five matches . |
| 18 | Not that she would have seen it as any sacrifice that she had neither husband nor child . |
| 19 | This two-volume work details all the castles built in England and Wales , and reference will always be made to it as long as castles are studied . |
| 20 | It was clear beyond doubt that the jury were not treating the guilty plea as merely making the background accurate : but , on the contrary , after the judge 's direction in reply to their question , must have treated it as going to proof of the guilt of the appellant . |
| 21 | Heaven forbid , but the urge to shoehorn into the calendar as much of it as possible continues unabated , leading at times to brain-numbing events such as the three-match Pakistan versus England knockabout immediately after the World Cup — which was a bit like lighting the cigar after a five-course a la carte dinner , then having the waiter arrive with a tureen of porridge . |
| 22 | In the same way as Keneally is using fiction to bring a forgotten conflict to an audience which might shrink from it as fact , the arts programme admitted material — reportage and politics — which it usually would not . |
| 23 | However , many of the jockeys described it as one of the roughest races they had ridden in . |
| 24 | He also offended cost-conscious UN bureaucrats by purchasing a large mansion in Windhoek ; a spokesman in New York described it as showing a ‘ lack of judgement ’ . |
| 25 | Second , Holyoak attacks the monumentality of The Galleries which , in his words ‘ is the latest in the big developers ’ move to privatise city centres — to eat up public space and reshape it as internalised , homogenised , security-patrolled private space' . |
| 26 | She was perfectly entitled to use it as working capital if that was the sum of money to which , taking into account her contribution and all other aspects of section 25 , she was entitled . |
| 27 | ‘ In this country you are faced with a stubborn and self-assured lady who sees it as one of her tasks to protect the regime , ’ Mr Mbeki said . |
| 28 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 29 | I could never understand why he did it as there was nothing else on the menu but egg and chips ! |
| 30 | We shook hands warmly ; I noticed that he had his old clay pipe in his mouth but there was no tobacco in it as he sucked at it and repeatedly removed the pipe from his mouth . |