Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 2 | By this time Lewyn must have been regarded as the principal military architect in the north , for he was also commissioned by Sir Richard le Scrope ( first Baron Scrope of Bolton , q.v. ) to build Bolton Castle , Yorkshire . |
| 3 | In fact , he has usually been regarded as the supreme Minimalist painter , but perceptions have been changing through a closer study of his earlier work which reveals him as an artist whose origins lie in painterly Abstraction . |
| 4 | For many decades , Greene had been regarded as The Grand Old Man of English Letters . |
| 5 | ‘ I scarcely know whether these remarks are intended as the mere superfluous assertion of an abstract right , or whether they are intended to imply a covert threat , that if the petitioners are dissatisfied with the answer to their application , they may resort to the extreme course of closing that useful place of veterinary education . |
| 6 | The part of the boy Miles , is sung by Sam Burkey , a 12 year-old who has been tipped as the next Aled Jones ; he 's already sung the part with the English National Opera . |
| 7 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 8 | Free elections , which could result in the Communist Party being reduced to playing a junior role , are seen as the only realistic way forward to end East Germany 's political and economic crisis . |
| 9 | They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife . |
| 10 | A BIRKENHEAD apprentice car technician has been named as the best third year trainee by the Shell-owned nation-wide motoring centre chain , Superdrive . |
| 11 | An advocate of Copernican astronomy , an infinite universe , and a plurality of worlds , Bruno has often been seen as the archetypal scientific martyr . |
| 12 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 13 | The codes that will be used are the Read codes , a computerised thesaurus of health care terms which have already been adopted as the standard clinical coding system for general practice and will be the standard throughout the NHS by 1 April 1994 ( the deadline for the clinical terms project ) . |
| 14 | The impulse has been interpreted as the initial vertical momentum of the impactor , which implies a bolide kinetic energy of 4 x10 25 erg . |
| 15 | The materials have been used as the sole in-service training source and in combination with role-play , the use of outside speakers and video . |
| 16 | The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( LCCI ) Examinations Board has long been recognised as the major international awarding body for secretarial qualifications . |
| 17 | Globalization has been characterized as the overarching global political process . |
| 18 | In its home market , the Cappuccino has been acclaimed as the ultimate small sports car and is the acknowledged leader in the Japanese microcar sector . |
| 19 | She has been acclaimed as the greatest Canadian painter of the century , while her four books are said to have reached new heights of perception and understanding in the annals of Canadian literature . |
| 20 | In the extreme case , automatic roof venting has been proposed as the only effective means by which the removal of heat and smoke from a fire can be achieved . |
| 21 | These points are proved as the last two points . |
| 22 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 23 | Forsyth came to be regarded as the greatest Congregational theologian of his day . |
| 24 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 25 | This is the common law position and s16(3) provides for the possibility of a court implying stricter terms so that the reasonable care provision may be regarded as the minimum legal requirement . |
| 26 | And , in a sense the World Council of Churches at this point can be regarded as the supreme legislative body of the World Church . |
| 27 | This ‘ heliacal rising ’ , to use the term employed in Greek astronomy , thus came to be regarded as the natural fixed point of the ‘ Sothic ’ calendar . |
| 28 | Comte 's scheme covers , in his own terms , what would now be regarded as the main social science disciplines , together with philosophy , theology and history . |
| 29 | This goal must , surely , be regarded as the very minimum necessary both for a civilised society and for us to begin to secure social justice for this group . |
| 30 | Nevertheless the rapidly amended " signing statement " generated renewed controversy over its declaration that analysis of the legislation , written by the administration and submitted into the legislative record by Senator Robert Dole ( Kansas ) , " will be treated as the authoritative interpretative guidance " by all officials in enforcing the law . |