Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [be] [vb pp] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time , the results may look coherent enough to be defined as Majorism . |
| 2 | So the network relationships contracted between individuals are functional , just as linguistic variation is also functional ( L. Milroy , 1987 , discusses examples in which social network relationships are important enough to be viewed as survival mechanisms ) . |
| 3 | When the background was off-white , the pattern was unobtrusive enough to be used as wallpaper in several features advertising other products and ‘ Laura Ashley ’ gained much incidental publicity in this way . |
| 4 | First of all , thanks to the Editor for asking for a short article from the unions ( soon to be united as Unison ) for the inaugural Highways Department News Sheet . |
| 5 | Items which are purchased with the vessel and which would be sold with it , are normally to be considered as part of the hull and machinery and will be covered even if not specifically declared on the proposal . |
| 6 | Usually to be defined as child sex abuse I think w for most authors there 'd need to be some kind of discrepancy in the ages in some way , that is y'know if somebody was about thirteen and the other person was about eighteen it might be ah starting to get er a big enough discrepancy to be outside the realm of of y'know kind of normal y'know sort of boyfriend and girlfriend to use those saccarinous terms erm relationships and maybe might be considered to be er to be something like child abuse . |
| 7 | Public parks came in the 1840s , and public libraries a few years later ; later still perhaps the grandiose Town Hall , by no means always to be despised as architecture . |
| 8 | These young gannets , or " gugas " [ the fat ones ] as they are called affectionately by the Gaelic-speaking islanders , were plucked and salted on the spot , then taken home to be stored as food . |
| 9 | At the turn of the century other ideas later to be seen as part of algebra were coming from the pen of Carl Friedrich Gauss , one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived . |
| 10 | While the legislation is clearly to be seen as evidence of a government 's entitlement to legislate in connection with a national responsibility , it is also interpretable as evidence of the government 's impatience with local authorities . |
| 11 | It was the Controller of the Household who later established that no one in authority who was within a reasonable distance of the incident could have realised that the members of the first team of bearers , most of them worthy if nervous burghers of Kinsai , had doctored strung-up nerves with wine and k'miss to such an extent that they were no longer capable of reacting with either fortitude or common sense to the kind of diversions which were now to be expected as part of the rejoicing . |
| 12 | The former Homecare service is now to be known as Warden Call , following a Government decision to change the name of the current home help service to Homecare . |
| 13 | Shiksas were to promise an escape from Jewish America , as the promised land of Israel was eventually to be evoked as doing for Henry Zuckerman . |
| 14 | Law and order became increasingly to be used as symbol for the moral and economic decay of the country and this was reinforced by the use of the latent racism of the working class in the publicity given to muggers which was presented at least implicitly as a black crime ( see Hall et al . |
| 15 | Once returned however , they were never again to be used as coronation regalia . |