Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the ways in which schools reorganised as comprehensive began to change the curriculum so that it would promote the struggle for equality of outcomes is the development of modular patterns ( Moon , 1988 , Warwick , 1987 ) . |
| 2 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 3 | At festival time nothing is illegal or forbidden as long as you have the price . |
| 4 | By establishing a régime that promotes transparency , takeovers that are purely speculative in financing terms will be disclosed as such and investors will be able to make investment decisions on the best possible information . |
| 5 | A third Royal Engineer was wounded as heavy fighting raged in Sarajevo . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding the above , considerable variation is permitted as long as the maximum remains reasonably above the minimum ( ie. at least twice ) . |
| 7 | Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it . |
| 8 | While some of the ‘ ordinary members ’ may accurately be depicted as ignorant and unintelligent , ‘ council leaders are more usually of a much higher calibre ’ . |
| 9 | In the face of Cadwallon 's army , Eadwine is depicted as retreating , if not fleeing , many of his army being slain as the Britons pursued them across the salt sea , and Cadwallon advances to Caer Caradog , even setting York ablaze . |
| 10 | Khonsu was also a moon god , who could be depicted as hawk-headed , and was venerated at Thebes as the son of Amun and Mut . |
| 11 | She is depicted as regal , beautiful , smart and successful . |
| 12 | With regard to stereotyping , the justifiable objections are not only that males and females are depicted as occupying separate and ‘ traditional ’ spheres , but that the books present an over-exaggerated version of contemporary gender roles . |
| 13 | The ravaging giant of Eirena 's territory finds counterparts in other figures depicted as monstrous , cruel , degenerate , and corrupt . |
| 14 | In each case one pole of the continuum is depicted as conservative and the other as radical , and this has often been related to overt political positions . |
| 15 | In other words , both kings are being depicted as kingly . |
| 16 | In particular , both were depicted as multi-headed winged serpents . |
| 17 | The Fates were thought cruel , for they paid no heed to human suffering and were usually depicted as old and ugly women attended by the shadowy Nemesis , goddess of the inevitable . |
| 18 | The Irish Prime Minister , Charles Haughey , is to resign as leader of the Fianna Fail party next week allowing a new leader to be nominated as Premier . |
| 19 | The Iran-contra scandal remained on the political agenda with the opening on Sept. 16 of the Senate intelligence committee 's confirmation hearings on Robert M. Gates , whom Bush had nominated as Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) director ( see p. 38327 ) . |
| 20 | Allen was nominated as one of the 135 commissioners ( MPs and others ) to form the high court of justice to conduct the trial of Charles I. The meetings of the court started on 8 January 1649 but Allen did not attend at the Painted Chamber in Whitehall until 17 January . |
| 21 | Wood Group Offshore , Great Yarmouth , has been nominated as one of the collection points in Yarmouth with two sub agents : Aberdeen Cargo Handling Services Ltd and Grampian Shipping in Peterhead . |
| 22 | For some reason known only to the Fellows I was nominated as senior of the four scholars of my year . |
| 23 | The Focus sections are interspersed as appropriate throughout the units . |
| 24 | Most recent early Netherlandish shows have therefore tended to be closely focused , either with very few outside loans ( as with the National Gallery , Washington 's 1992 show around its Gerard David ‘ St Anne altarpiece ’ which temporarily reunited the gallery 's three central panels with its predella panels from Edinburgh and Toledo , Ohio ) , or organised as in-house ‘ dossier ’ shows , as with the 1991 Joos van Cleve exhibition at the Louvre , organised by Cecile Scaillierez , who is preparing an in-house Hans Memling show for 1994 . |
| 25 | Since the Trust was founded in 1960 Alton and Petersfield have been organised as one area ( the Trust have seven areas and the IoW ) . |
| 26 | Here we have operating in the same geographical area , in the same economic environment and manufacturing the same product , on the one hand enterprises organised as industrial co-operatives and on the other as conventional firms . |
| 27 | A seminal and key figure , at least in American education , has been Dewey , who was recommending in 1916 that schools should be organised as miniature democracies , and who saw education as a preparation for citizenship in a democratic society ( Dewey , 1916 ) . |
| 28 | It is organised as three teaching terms each ten weeks long , with short vacations of three weeks at Christmas and four weeks at Easter . |
| 29 | An American model of ‘ privatism ’ ( see Barnekov , Boyle and Rich , 1989 ) has in recent times been deemed as exportable . |
| 30 | One of the factors widely deemed as critical to Miyazawa 's chances of short-term survival was the need to obtain Diet approval for the 1992 budget by April 1 , the beginning of the fiscal year . |