Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist ideas are presented as extreme , and women who hold them are described variously as unfeminine , man-hating , aggressive , ugly and perverted . |
| 2 | His department contributed £2.3 million towards the fund set up to purchase what was described yesterday as southern England 's last wilderness , a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest of international importance for its bird population . |
| 3 | Police stand guard , not to keep people out but to ensure nothing is taken away as investigators sift through secret files , looking for evidence of official misdeeds . |
| 4 | When he first appeared he was known briefly as The Broken , referring to his christian name , and to the way he looked so grave , even grief-stricken sometimes in an odd way . |
| 5 | It was held in Attorney General v Tod Heatley , however , that an owner of land has a common law duty to prevent it being used so as to amount to a public nuisance . |
| 6 | To see this argument as somehow cancelling what went before is probably to interpret the pamphlet according to modern and anachronistic notions of authorial intention , character utterance , and textual unity ( all three notions privileging what is said finally as being more truthful than what went before ) . |