Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similarly , Wordsworth is commonly bowdlerized into a ‘ Nature poet ’ , and his frequent accounts of human beings in economic difficulties are dismissed as his ‘ revolutionary growing-pains ’ — to be omitted from the safe anthologies in which he is. commonly presented to the adolescent mind . |
| 32 | These factors are dismissed as inevitable or unalterable , or not considered at all . |
| 33 | Showaddywaddy , however , are dismissed as ‘ revisionists , taking the revolutionary music of the workers ’ collectives of Memphis in the 1950s and subverting it with a horrible crepe-sole cabaret act . |
| 34 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 35 | The Gospels are dismissed as unreliable , second-hand accounts which contain only ‘ something — but little — of the sayings , the precepts of Christ and information concerning him ’ . |
| 36 | Her successes are dismissed as tawdry , her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated . |
| 37 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 38 | Such arguments are dismissed as overreaction by those campaigning for a significant reduction in the use of animals in research . |
| 39 | Where the branch manufactures a product ( such as a car ) the standards it must comply with are those of the host member state ; conversely , where it sells a product made in its home member state the manufacturing standards of the home member state are normally the relevant ones , although the rules of the host member state would apply to its advertising in that state provided that they are justified as being for the public good . |
| 40 | They are placed as follows : Monday and Wednesday Paisley ( District Hall ) Tuesday and Thursday Linwood ( Church Hall ) Friday Erskine ( Church Hall ) The funding for the project originally came from Social Work Services Group under section 10 . |
| 41 | The release of the results had been delayed as UNITA , with preliminary results indicating its defeat , made allegations of irregularities and threatened a resumption of guerrilla war . |
| 42 | I 'm afraid this letter has been delayed as I have n't had a chance to get it to the Embassy before today . |
| 43 | What we have seen in the 1980s is a process by which poverty has been redefined as to do with the ‘ inner city ’ . |
| 44 | Yet more instructions are given as to how the people should live , how they should avoid oppression , and show true compassion for the poor and the vulnerable . |
| 45 | In the MEDLINE system , for example , the user can interactively ask for instructions at the beginning of the search , or for assistance during the search , when part of the original instructions are given as requested . |
| 46 | In 1800 the family 's landlords are given as ‘ Muir and Wayland ’ , and the property itself is described as ‘ House and Garden ’ . |
| 47 | All this is described in the document as Stage I of the school 's library development plan , the aims and objectives of which are given as follows : Aims and objectives of the initial improvement scheme ( Stage 1 ) 1 . |
| 48 | The content categories are given as number , money , time , length , weight , data interpretation , and space . |
| 49 | Results are given as mean ( SEM ) . |
| 50 | All values are given as mean ( SE ) . |
| 51 | Wilcoxon 's rank sum test was used for non-parametric data to analyse the mean values , which are given as median and interquartile range . |
| 52 | Values of serum pepsinogens are given as means and standard deviations ( SD ) . |
| 53 | The Canine Defence League refuses to find new homes for abandoned animals until well after the holiday , in case the same dogs are given as presents and then dumped again . |
| 54 | Details of individual programmes are given as usual in the Radio Times . |
| 55 | For a new SPR which is not being based on an existing SPR , LIFESPAN will provide four fields in which you may make an entry if required , as described below ; it is recommended that they are completed as they provide some useful basic information . |
| 56 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 57 | All of the documents considered so far have been intended as items for discussion or guidance to schools and local authorities . |
| 58 | It also dates 1st century and could have been intended as either a key or a knife handle ( although the fact that it has a circular socket favours its use as a key handle ) . |
| 59 | These may not have constituted bases in the fullest sense nor been intended as permanent strategic installations , but Western statesmen have focussed on their potential and the capabilities they give the Soviet Union . |
| 60 | While the referendum had not been intended as legally binding by the government , on the strength of the result the Supreme Council on Feb. 11 adopted a constitutional law proclaiming Lithuania " an independent democratic republic " . |