Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] as the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enforcement of Amhara supremacy over other nationalities and the absence of a democratic machinery for instituting change are given as the main reasons why the Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) started an armed struggle in 1975 . |
| 2 | Constipation is now recognized as the underlying cause of this disease — and fibre-depleted diets are recognized as the major cause of constipation . |
| 3 | The racists are redefined as the black racists and Mr Honey ford , dogged defender of freedom , is invited to Number 10 Downing Street for consultation . |
| 4 | The points A and B in the diagram represent the temperatures at which the largest crystallites disappear and are regarded as the respective melting temperatures T m for the samples . |
| 5 | Now , his songs are intended as the real thing , but widely assumed to be some sort of parody . |
| 6 | Tears are shed as the traditional homes and communities are left — where the peasants and their families had lived for hundreds of years — and they go to feed the machine . |
| 7 | Follow Me , which is also mainly a vehicle for language items , is different in that some sections are designed as the first introduction to a language item . |
| 8 | In fact , if the children aged thirty and above are considered as the second generation of adults , then three-quarters of the men and two-thirds of the women were living in parishes other than Cardington . |
| 9 | People are seen as the key organisation resource and employees are aware that their best efforts are essential and they will share in their companies ' success . |
| 10 | Perhaps surprisingly , wide area Asynchronous Transfer network services are seen as the final phase , since SynOptics feels that carriers will be slower off the mark to respond to demand ( despite the fact that AT&T Co said that it will introduce Asynchronous Transfer Mode services towards the end of the year ) . |
| 11 | For methodological reasons , it is important to distinguish between this and the socially based interpretation of the results , because if the social factors involved are seen as the motivating principle for the selection and analysis of linguistic variables , the investigators may be accused of biased selectivity and circularity . |
| 12 | Expressed in their paintings and sculpture and stories , these elements are seen as the successive thresholds , or levels of initiation , which the warrior of consciousness must broach on his path to enlightenment . |
| 13 | Regional councils are seen as the nearest equivalent . |
| 14 | The " drug barons " , importing from Thailand , Pakistan , or Colombia , are seen as the real cause of increasing " hard " drug addiction in the UK , rather than the fact that they would have no market if there were no demand . |
| 15 | Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body . |
| 16 | Productivity through people : people are seen as the sole basis for success which is developed through respect for the individual expressed through trust . |
| 17 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 18 | Although the Conservatives are seen as the natural allies of nuclear power , the ordering of every commercial reactor in Britain up to the 1980s was carried out by a Labour administration . |
| 19 | Carr commented that ‘ as soon as the attempt is made to apply these supposedly abstract principles to a concrete political situation , they are revealed as the transparent disguises of selfish vested interests . ’ |
| 20 | I am writing as the senior partner in a solicitors ' practice , employing over 20 people , in reply to some of the comments spreading gloom and despondency about the Labour Party 's proposals in the areas of taxation , economic growth and training . |
| 21 | Now it should be re-named the ‘ Oil City ’ , since its shops and industries are booming as the main base for the many services supplying the oil wells of the North Sea and their workers . |
| 22 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | His fortunes and foes , loves and losses are uncovered as the compelling mini-series , Sinatra ( UTV 10.40pm ) continues . |
| 24 | For example , if trade exhibitions are selected as the ultimate communication medium , all other marketing inputs , e.g. sales force and media advertising , must be coordinated with the programmed trade exhibition . |
| 25 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 26 | Feed systems vary according to whether liquid or powder detergents are used as the same system can not be used for both . |
| 27 | The location of the GLA , DXS178 and DXS101 loci are shown as the shaded rectangles . |
| 28 | This little band are know as the Medieval Heritage Society , a re-enactment group with a strange desire to give people a glimpse of life in the 1450's . |
| 29 | Adult lobsters have no difficulty crushing Nucella shells-indeed dog-whelks are provided as the exclusive food for Homarus americanus in the marine tanks at Nahant ( Crothers , 1983a ) . |
| 30 | They are known as the Super Mario Brothers . |