Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate reason for the outbreak of war was the French king 's confiscation of the Duchy of Aquitaine on the ground that Edward was harbouring Robert of Artois , a rebellious vassal of the French king who had fled to England in 1336 after being condemned as a traitor . |
| 2 | The pool has been closed after being condemned as a health hazard because of structural faults . |
| 3 | Webb concerns the dismissal of a woman who discovered that she was pregnant shortly after being hired as a maternity leave replacement . |
| 4 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 5 | Moore ( 1938a ) and Feare ( 1970a ) agree that growth in N. lapillus usually stops at maturity , tree years after being laid as an egg . |
| 6 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 7 | At the risk of being regarded as a gardening Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes , it is a good idea to have a magnifying glass in your pocket when you take a turn around the roses . |
| 8 | ‘ Satisfaction of being regarded as an expert ’ |
| 9 | Until the physical appearance of puberty a girl enjoys the privilege of being regarded as an image of the great Goddess . |
| 10 | Some of the disadvantages of being treated as a believer rather than a researcher were experienced in a rather dramatic fashion by a sociologist who , while studying a Hindu sect , underwent a perfectly genuine conversion . |
| 11 | Secondly , if , instead of being treated as a claim about the actual functioning of the suggested markets , the argument is taken to mean that it is possible to design a set of rules such that the proposed markets do operate to restrain corporate managerial power , it encounters an overwhelming obstacle . |
| 12 | The Board instructed their clerk to communicate with the governors of the infirmary on the matter , and in his reply a week later , the house surgeon there ( who acted as hospital secretary ) said that he had thought the case capable of being treated as an out-patient . |
| 13 | A lifetime of being treated as an object rather than as a human being must be very debilitating . ’ |
| 14 | Paul Lexington had too much at stake in the production to take the risk of being discovered as a murderer . |
| 15 | This position is in danger of being misunderstood as an opposition to the changing position of women in society . |
| 16 | No matter how often we tell people that a dog is for life , not just for Christmas , some are always abandoned within hours of being given as a present . ’ |
| 17 | He had the advantage of being seen as a man of peace , whereas Reagan made many voters nervous . |
| 18 | We felt that a positive message delivered through TV advertising could help us regain the position of being seen as a market leader , a quality provider and a major innovator in financial services . |
| 19 | As part of their attempt to cure themselves they developed their own delusionary worlds , which were in turn often treated by non-analysts as a symptom of a disease instead of being seen as an attempt at self-cure . |
| 20 | This has the advantage of being expressed as a number and is thus amenable to statistical analysis , but it does not recognise different types of colonic pressure waves . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if you appear too submissive you stand in danger of being dismissed as a bit of a weed . |
| 22 | In practice , the chance of being selected as a bone marrow donor is therefore very slim and although on the register you may in fact never match with a patient . |
| 23 | In the event of a second conviction for a like offence , a member is liable , in addition to the penalties already named , to be adjudged to be for ever incapable of holding any public office , and to be incapable for five years of being registered as an elector or voting at an election either of members to serve in Parliament or of members of any public body . |
| 24 | So that , when young gentlemen were on the rampage , the past — instead of being used as a stick with which to beat the deteriorated present — became the justification for taking a lenient view . |
| 25 | American courts were to exercise a special vigilance to protect foreign litigants from abusive discovery , for example demands for excessive numbers of depositions or documents involving high transportation costs and capable of being used as a device to secure a settlement of the case . |
| 26 | His remarks were made when one of the locations used to store a unique collection of German literature taken from Germany in 1945 was recently handed back to the Orthodox Church , after four decades of being used as a store for the collection . |
| 27 | It emerged that when oestrogen was taken on its own , the lining of the womb would build up each month and remain there instead of being shed as a period . |
| 28 | Further , does he realise that Rolls-Royce now has very little chance of being specified as the lead engine on the 777 ? |
| 29 | Soviet specialists argue that the Vietnamese believe that the insistence on neutralisation in the ASEAN Zone proposal is intended to isolate Vietnam , since it could not obtain sufficient guarantees against being isolated as a participant in a neutral zone . |
| 30 | He 's fed up with being known as The Charmer . |