Example sentences of "[noun prp] be [verb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adjacent Forests of Epping and Hainault are viewed as an intolerable nuisance … the farmers uniformly declare that the privilege of commonage is by no means equal to the one-tenth part of the losses they constantly sustain from the deer in breaking down their fences , trespassing upon their fields , and destroying their crops either ripe or green . |
| 2 | They also suspected him of fomenting violence to prevent Inkatha being marginalized as a political force . |
| 3 | Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site . |
| 4 | The United States is left as the only global superpower , in effect . |
| 5 | ANDF is conceived as a ground-breaking way of enabling software vendors to write , package and distribute one single version of an application to run unchanged on laptops , workstations , servers , mainframes , even supercomputers . |
| 6 | Last techy bit — Johnny is installed as a bona-fide screen saver under your Desktop icon in the Windows control panel , so it 's fully compatible with everything else , and not running as an add-in TSR . |
| 7 | Spencers became Knights of the Garter , Privy Councillors , ambassadors and a First Lord of the Admiralty while the third Earl Spencer was considered as a possible Prime Minister . |
| 8 | Francisco Perdomo Sandoval was appointed as the new Interior Minister on July 31 , replacing Fernando Hurtado Prem who had been forced to resign on July 23 , apparently following a wave of protests after anti-riot police violently evicted 500 campesinos ( peasants ) gathered in the Central Plaza in Guatemala City . |
| 9 | In 1773 Scott was sent as a sickly child to stay with his grandparents at Sandyknowe farm , below the rocky plinth from which rises a fortalice with sturdy walls and gun-loops . |
| 10 | This war has to be explained in terms of the collapse of the old order — not simply in the sense that the United States was left as the only superpower , but in the more profound sense that the collapse of the old order has far-reaching consequences for American society and politics , that this war is a defensive reaction to the deep disturbance caused by the end of the cold war . |
| 11 | An author of over 1,200 published opinions , Brennan was known as a strong opponent of the death penalty , a proponent of minority and women 's rights , and a believer in a broad interpretation of the Constitution . |
| 12 | When Standlake was proposed as a possible site then ? |
| 13 | We all knew that Steven was regarded as an eligible bachelor , but we did n't think that marriage was what he was eligible for . |
| 14 | Dahl was known as a staunch supporter of the anti-nuclear lobby , while Molin favoured a delay in the closures , arguing that their high cost might jeopardise Swedish industrial competitiveness and employment prospects . |
| 15 | Prince Edward was acknowledged as the new king , and Isabella and Mortimer as his regents . |
| 16 | President Vassiliou was elected as an independent , and his administration is nominally a non-party one . |
| 17 | I move that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the sixteenth of July be signed as a correct record . |
| 18 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 19 | Although Kim is hailed as the Beloved Leader , 12 corrective camps are believed to provide 152,000 less-adoring citizens with re-education . |
| 20 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 21 | While the Bond is intended as a medium to long term investment , it may be encashed at any time . |
| 22 | Aberdeen is used as the main processing centre for letters and parcels posted in towns and villages throughout the north-east and Shetland . |
| 23 | The sooner boss Brian Clough buys a centre-half the better , for Keane is wasted as a central defender . |
| 24 | But in mediaeval woodcuts , on stained-glass windows and in classical Christian art , the apple symbolizes the first sin and Eve is portrayed as the first sinner . |
| 25 | LTP is expressed as a persistent increase in the size of the synaptic component of the evoked response , recorded from individual cells or from populations of neurons . |
| 26 | Because LTP is expressed as an enhanced response to single stimuli , it is processes controlling the rapid fusion of synaptic vesicles with release sites , and/or the formation of fusion pores , which are the most likely targets for regulation . |
| 27 | Former soldier in Northern Ireland is recruited as a British agent investigating arms and cocaine trafficking . |
| 28 | It is worth noting that when James Wolfe was sent as a young officer to restore order in the troubled clothing districts of the West Country , his sympathies rapidly shifted to the side of the weavers . |
| 29 | And the Shorts military version of Skyvan was used as a multi-role tactical . |
| 30 | The territorial readjustments of 1475 suggest that by then the queen 's interest in East Anglia was regarded as the main instrument of royal authority there . |