Example sentences of "for what it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which the big glass will not only deny but show up for what it is : narcissism , regression , the refusal to see things as they are . |
| 2 | Porfiry is also asking Raskolnikov to recognize his hunger for what it is . |
| 3 | He does not , however , retract his proposal that the precepts of the imagist manifesto are still the best rules of thumb for ‘ the neophyte ’ , the beginner in his ‘ prentice-work ; and for what it is worth my own experience in the workshop certainly bears that out . |
| 4 | Strip away the insincerity and the hype from the music business and see it for what it is , a jungle . |
| 5 | IT IS amazing how few critics seem to have been able to recognise Dennis Potter 's Blackeyes for what it is , just another Anglo-Australian copy of Neighbours . |
| 6 | If you are paying a little more for the food you should enjoy it for what it is — avoid recipes which suggest such things as stuffing breasts of chicken with Parma ham mousse , then wrapping them in smoked salmon and poaching in wine before serving with a cream sauce . |
| 7 | Mr Lee recognises the 752-member assembly for what it is — an anachronism instinctively opposed to the reforms begun three years ago by the late President Chiang Ching-kuo ( a son of Chiang Kai-shek ) and carried on by Mr Lee . |
| 8 | It is much too easy to fail to recognise a murder for what it is . |
| 9 | Horst Urban , Continental 's boss , is unimpressed with Pirelli 's elaborate scheme and rightly sees it for what it is : a takeover . |
| 10 | I take modelling for what it is ; I made money I 'd never otherwise have made so quickly , and I 'm still young enough to do something else . |
| 11 | If we can recognize it for what it is , then we are well on the road to dealing with it , and being able to put it behind us . |
| 12 | ( Jean-Paul Legrand ) Ulrike saw the fucking military-industrial conspiracy for what it is , and she sat on it . |
| 13 | For what it is worth , Leicestershire 's batting looks attractive and the seam bowlers sound , butthey must improve their slow bowling form . |
| 14 | ‘ It is not a birth-mark and , if I had rid myself of my preconceptions , I would have recognized it for what it is , on superficial examination of the subject . ’ |
| 15 | But the celebration of this act of creation is not offered as a simple honouring of ‘ pure ’ beauty , for the concept of art within which this praise is offered honours the film as much for what it is not as for what it is . |
| 16 | But the celebration of this act of creation is not offered as a simple honouring of ‘ pure ’ beauty , for the concept of art within which this praise is offered honours the film as much for what it is not as for what it is . |
| 17 | My own , much attenuated view , for what it is worth , is as follows . |
| 18 | And I think his comment should stand for what it is . |
| 19 | A personal view , for what it is worth , is that most British public libraries would benefit from spending at least 40 % of their bookfunds on stock revision . |
| 20 | It would do me no harm to accept it for what it is : an idiosyncrasy of chub , and stop trying to find out why . |
| 21 | When you spot a game for what it is how can you stop it ? |
| 22 | for what it is I take it with a pinch of |
| 23 | For what it is worth , I think he may be right because it is possible to find objects in space from remembered information . |
| 24 | For what it is worth , my own sample of one sixth-form biologist found Hunting the Past excellent reading . |
| 25 | Yours is the clear-sighted , undeceived vision of the ancients , who knew life for what it is and men for what they are , and did not flinch from that knowledge . |
| 26 | So far Marian had spoken no more than the truth but the sort of truth children speak and understand for what it is — the letter of truth but not the spirit . |
| 27 | It is thus the age of truth , the age when life is clearly seen for what it is and man knows his role in the totality of things . |
| 28 | Beside this , the very persistence of the term is itself worthy of interest and on academic , moral and political grounds any resolution of the uncertainty that surrounds the value of the concept of the inner city must surely start by taking on this vocabulary for what it is . |
| 29 | An unbelievable 40–1 was available with Surrey Racing and this column , for what it is worth , believes this to have been the most outstanding each-way value of the season and a serious each-way proposition . |
| 30 | We demand that our work should be recognised for what it is — we produce and reproduce in other people and ourselves the ability to work and go on working , we produce labour power . |