Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [be] [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's always amazing to me that you can be a man in charge of 100 or 200 people , then you get your pension book and suddenly you are regarded as deaf and daft . |
| 2 | Perhaps we were seen as abrasive because we had the courage to say what everyone else was thinking . ’ |
| 3 | Finally they were resented as any established clique is resented by newcomers , and for their part , put on little airs and gave themselves privileges in return . |
| 4 | Many years later I was sent as emissary to Mary , Queen of Scots , when she was playing the two-backed beast with Bothwell . |
| 5 | A case is defined when it is reported as one alleged offender involved in one event or series of events ; also it is regarded as one case where members of the same group are involved in one event or series of events . |
| 6 | ‘ The importance of maintenance as a specialist element within the sphere of building is undeniable and yet so often we are portrayed as unprofessional and given little credence . |
| 7 | There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon . |
| 8 | This last was named because he had hung the green flag of the Irish Free State and also the red flag of Russia in the church , but a band of reactionary students from Cambridge tore them down , and eventually they were condemned as illegal by a consistory court . |
| 9 | Much of Western psychotherapy draws , in various forms , on the catharsis model , whereby it is held as necessary for emotional health to come to terms with the repressed anger that is assumed to be inside the individual , and techniques are developed to make the individual confront these in a dramatic form . |
| 10 | Compounds are written in different ways ; sometimes they are written as one word , e.g. ‘ armchair ’ , ‘ sunflower ’ , sometimes with the words separated by a hyphen , e.g. ‘ gear-change ’ , ‘ fruit-cake ’ , and sometimes with two words separated by a space , e.g. ‘ desk lamp ’ , ‘ battery charger ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ But it 's gotten to the point where if a song is not real predictable radio fare then it 's regarded as left-field . |
| 12 | His patter is now issued on a cassette in which he tells the story of how he was baptised as Christian . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a terrible shame that , after all these years of feminism , women should be back in the place where they are regarded as expendable . |
| 14 | With the support of Shearman , District Chairman until 1936 when he was appointed as National Education Officer for the WEA , Jacques turned his attention to seeking co-operative relationships with LEAs who were beginning to expand provision of adult education through the establishment of evening institutes , mostly accommodated in secondary schools . |
| 15 | Thomas Ingram , Queen Victoria 's head gardener at Frogmore and Windsor , showed the apple to a meeting of the British Pomological Society in December 1856 , when it was acclaimed as one of the best kinds for the table , ‘ sweet , aromatic and very tender , a fair sized and handsome fruit ’ . |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Then again it is regarded as doubtful whether there really is a specific quality of pleasure , and even of pain , which covers all experiences that people either want to have or avoid , and it is thought obviously desirable that people should have experiences they want rather than those with a certain quality . |
| 17 | Certainly it was regarded as worthwhile to protect the dollar by limiting capital outflows . |