Example sentences of "[modal v] be [vb pp] as [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests which are not based upon adequate linguistic descriptions must be regarded as lacking in construct validity . |
| 2 | The aphids of Chapter 10 could be seen as paying out nectar to hire professional bodyguards . |
| 3 | The risk of the Kantineservice decision is that , although there is no true transfer of an undertaking when the franchisor is changed , the person acquiring the franchise may be seen as taking over responsibility for running the undertaking and will normally retain the original employees . |
| 4 | Precatory words were one , but only one , category of words which would be accepted as setting up trusts if they made the testator 's intention clear . |
| 5 | But such a massive U-turn — Mr Major has always rejected a public vote — would be seen as giving in to the rebels . |
| 6 | The transaction in the new site will be undertaken by Tradeco , which will be regarded as carrying on a trade . |
| 7 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 8 | Briefly summarised , these are first , that photosynthesis may be ‘ switched ’ on and off reversibly : and second , that its behaviour is highly modular in that the complex series of reactions that make up photosynthesis can be reviewed as going on inside a number of ‘ boxes ’ , each fairly distinct and separable from each other — the light-harvesting mechanisms , the conversion of the light energy to ATP , the use of ATP to make carbohydrates and so on . |