Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None had ever been diagnosed as having colorectal polyps before our examination . |
| 2 | They may shade off into what might more appropriately be called ethnocentrism , where ethnic groups are defined primarily in cultural terms and are regarded as having essential traits . |
| 3 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 4 | Similarly , moderate versions of indeterminism ( especially the classical version ) allow a degree of predictability : although we are seen as making free choices , this does not preclude the specification of circumstances that influence choices in a particular direction . |
| 5 | ‘ Both Mr Sugar and Mr Venables are accepted as having forceful personalities . |
| 6 | They are interpreted as filling volcano-tectonic faults but may also have been feeders to Kuroko-style massive sulphide deposits , though these are likely to have been removed by erosion . |
| 7 | Further , it affirms authorities ' responsibilities to meet their legal obligations where users have been assessed as requiring particular services . |
| 8 | It was the first occasion on which the atomic constitution of matter had been recognised as producing visible effects . |
| 9 | Public sector organizations can generally be distinguished as having hierarchical structures composed of responsibility centres : units , sections , departments and divisions . |
| 10 | It is only changes in test scores which exceed these reliability estimates that can be regarded as reflecting real changes in the child 's ability . |
| 11 | Table 1 does not consist of water-tight compartments but should rather be regarded as displaying general categories which may run into each other , more as two sets of continua rather than as two polar ideal types . |
| 12 | If shares have different amounts paid up on them they will be regarded as constituting separate classes ( Re United Provident Assurance Co Ltd [ 1910 ] 2 Ch 477 ) . |
| 13 | Changes designed to improve education can therefore be regarded as having two sources : those initiated by decision makers at local or national level ; those initiated by teachers . |
| 14 | Shareholders have ceased to be regarded as having equitable interests in the company 's assets ; ‘ shareholders are not , in the eyes of the law , part owners of the undertaking . ’ |
| 15 | The importance of his distancing from earlier critical theory becomes clear ; ‘ science ’ as a form of epistemology can not be dismissed as ideology but a tendency to ‘ scientism ’ can be treated as obscuring knowledge-constitutive interests and as potentially ideological . |
| 16 | For these suggest that holism and individualism can fruitfully be seen as serving different interests in social explanation . |
| 17 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 18 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 19 | When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in . |
| 20 | And there are senses in which this music can be seen as representing wider experiences , of workers particularly , within twentieth-century capitalist society . |
| 21 | As a language is variable at all times , the many different varieties can each be seen as having continuous histories , with influences passing to and fro between them , as represented in figure 3.2 . |
| 22 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 23 | If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing . |
| 24 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
| 25 | This was particularly valuable at a time when the chemical profession was coming to be seen as having different needs and interests from the learned chemical community . |
| 26 | Is it then the case that no group of these fundamental quantitative propositions of science can be interpreted as stating causal connections ? |
| 27 | The interplay between semantic and social conditioning factors may then be interpreted as reflecting differential preferences by social groups for certain communicative styles which involve different degrees of assertiveness . |
| 28 | Using this cut-off point the health and lifestyle survey reported that 27 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women aged 18 + could be classed as having psychiatric problems . |
| 29 | Likewise , children with ‘ acquired childhood language disorder ’ may be recognised as having similar kinds of communication difficulties ( irrespective of specific causes ) and , on the basis of this diagnosis , they may be recommended for certain kinds of therapy ( Cantwell and Baker 1987 ) . |
| 30 | Habermas calls action oriented to success ‘ instrumental ’ when it can be understood as following technical rules , and can be evaluated in terms of efficiency ( typically when operations are being performed on the physical world ) . |