tarunanandani wrote:
Opponents of the proposed water desalination plant cite the environmental impact and the tremendous cost as being reasons not to approve the plan.
A. as being reasons not to
B. to be reasons not to
C. as if they were reasons not to
D. for reasons that they should not
E. as reasons not to
Consider X as Y is correct idiomatic usage, hence answer must be (E)
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