Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 2 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , in which case Kitchens Of Distinction are using it as a sharp stick . |
| 3 | FoE 's rainforests campaigner , Tony Juniper , admits that some tree planting is a good idea , but says that " politicians are using it as a green smokescreen to hide the failure of developed countries to cut emissions of carbon dioxide " . |
| 4 | ‘ The Bosnian Serbs are using humanitarian aid as a military weapon and the Bosnian government and Croatian groups are using it as a political weapon . ’ |
| 5 | The United States department of defence is currently looking at using multi media to train reservists , and a few publishers are using it as an exciting new media for publishing encyclopaedias . |
| 6 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 7 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 8 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 9 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 10 | Sometimes we are to treat it as a drawing of a box , sometimes as one of wire frames . |
| 11 | People who do n't have a real understanding of vibe are adopting it as a pose . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Ever since the elections they have been revealing themselves as the neo-Nazis that they really are , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I am opening myself as a channel to the Light . ’ |
| 14 | This is a similar sort of thing to passing current through , but this time we 're using it as a battery . |
| 15 | It was sensible , as Mrs Thatcher had , ‘ to counsel caution in the maelstrom , but it all depends on whether you 're saying that in order to guide events in a steady fashion or whether you 're using it as an alibi to do nothing . |
| 16 | So you 're using it as an excuse ? |
| 17 | We 're keeping it as a monument to its origins during the war |
| 18 | No , oh , well no , we 're painting it as a female problem exclusively , but one that 's been |
| 19 | He took a drink and went on , " Okay , so they 're invading Earth , but they 're doing it as a tax dodge so that — " |
| 20 | But on paper you can see that you 're intending it as a an augmented interval . |
| 21 | They 're casting him as a woman . |
| 22 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 23 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 24 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 25 | Even Radio 1 are tipping him as the favourite ! |
| 26 | ‘ He is safe and well and we are treating it as a genuine abduction . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We are treating it as a drug induced death , ’ said a spokesman for the San Diego medical examiner 's office . |
| 28 | Because we are treating it as a stock , the supply of bills is drawn vertically , at . |
| 29 | Meantime I am treating it as a double murder . ’ |
| 30 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |