Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] as the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RSDLP should be reorganized as a federal party , with the Bund being recognized as the sole representative of Jewish workers and the party programme promising ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ ( that is , all Jewish workers , regardless of where they lived in the empire , would be members of a national Jewish association , responsible for all Jewish educational and cultural affairs ) . |
| 2 | I , being regarded as the principal guest , was presented with the greatest delicacy , which appeared to be a part of the breast . |
| 3 | Flotation is still not out of the picture , with 1994 being forecast as the big year . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 5 | When CDC 's intention became clear , it was approached by a variety of potential partners , Ousley says , and ‘ came very close to changing ’ its decision ( Hewlett-Packard Co being seen as the unlucky suitor ( UX Nos 381 , 384 ) ) . |
| 6 | Such projects , then , can produce important lessons , but there is a danger of temporary , inadequately funded special projects being seen as the sole response of adult education to the unemployment crisis . |
| 7 | This is part of a wider public policy in relation to health care , where Primary Health Care is being seen as the central component of the Health Care System and an accepted general principle that Health problems be dealt with at the lowest level of complexity , and acknowledges that a well-informed , well-motivated participating community is necessary for the achievement of health targets . |
| 8 | Part of the reason for governments ' ‘ averted gaze ’ has , of course , been the wish to avoid being seen as the obvious source of subsidy and support for struggling enterprises . |
| 9 | These allied to an apprehension of the uselessness of qualifications anyway — blackness being seen as the immovable obstacle to career progress — produce a situation in which black kids are receptive to alternatives , to different life plans . |
| 10 | His report is being used as the basic plan for ULAB . |
| 11 | Here they are being used as the main character in a popular advert . |
| 12 | The Playhouse , in Derry , is being used as the main stage for the performances each night . |
| 13 | The poor internal self-image is reflected outwards onto other people and onto external circumstances rather than being recognised as the diseased part of self . |
| 14 | Personally , I think that if we can obtain in Cambridgeshire a federation of WEA student groups which will be represented on the Rural Areas Committee of the Extra-Mural Board in the same way as we are represented by a kindred federation in Bedfordshire , there will not be anything lost from the WEA point of view , in the Board being recognised as the responsible body . |
| 15 | Most of these are now being replaced as the soft sandstone from which they are carved has become seriously eroded . |
| 16 | British fascism was to come close to being rationalized as the political revolt of the romantic imagination in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | It is the portrait of a brash , insensitive but privately vulnerable man , who suffered from being portrayed as the comic perpetrator of ‘ Goldwynisms ’ : ‘ the public stayed away in droves ’ , ‘ include me out ’ , and many more , many apocryphal . |
| 18 | Imports M will absorb a certain fraction of any additional income received by the community , the relevant proportion being known as the marginal propensity to import . |
| 19 | A devaluation of the rial by 23 per cent in February 1990 was initially reported as the introduction of a preferential rate in an effort to increase the remittances of foreign currency by North Yemenis working abroad ; however , by March 1990 this new rate of approximately US$1.00=12 rials was being cited as the official rate . |
| 20 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 21 | He was constantly being compared to Brando , and vice-versa , which outraged him , and now Jimmy Dean was being hailed as the new Clift and the new Brando . |
| 22 | Coir , the fibrous husk of the coconut , is being hailed as the new alternative to peat , it has many similar properties , ideal for potting or seed sowing . |
| 23 | The clippings are being hailed as the unlikely source for a new drug which could save many women 's lives . |