Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] as be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it seems that the rain forest rather than the savannah was the chimpanzee 's original home , hunting should therefore be regarded as being typical of the animal . |
| 2 | Two types of area might therefore be identified as being particularly vulnerable to structural problems ; the underdeveloped mainly rural areas , and the regions where there is a concentration of declining heavy industries . |
| 3 | Following Mitchell 's ( 1951 ) work , the villages may further be classified as being open or closed , and as being integrated or disintegrated ( see previous section ) . |
| 4 | Obversely he comments that , whilst the history department at Birkbeck College in London got a well-deserved five in the latest research assessment exercise — neither the quality of the research not its subject area could possibly be seen as being solely dependent on the strengths of the library of that college . |
| 5 | The evaluation could also be regarded as being of the summative type , in that information was given of the functioning of a nearly finalized course . |
| 6 | It is a tall order for someone so new to the professional ranks , but one which could never be construed as being beyond a competitor who , as an amateur , tied for second place behind Greg Norman in the Australian Masters at Huntingdale at the start of this season and who also finished in the top 10 in the English Open at The Belfry . |
| 7 | Thus the resistance of individuals would normally be classified as being both informal and spontaneous . |
| 8 | The Scottish Office is now reassessing the costings but its judgments will hardly be seen as being completely impartial . |
| 9 | The process , borrowed from the law of bankruptcy , can only be described as being sui generis . |
| 10 | The procedure can thus be viewed as being an indirect way of assessing the effects of habituation training . |
| 11 | High-bay warehouses , as a single volume , can normally be considered as being single storey buildings . |
| 12 | In his brilliant pamphlet , Europe and the Constitution after Maastricht , produced for the Society of Conservative lawyers , Martin Howe argued that the Community law can already be conceived as being on a higher level than national law : |
| 13 | ‘ Cleaving can best be defined as being welded together . ’ |
| 14 | Cleaving can best be defined as being welded together . |
| 15 | This conflict , it would seem , has come about because , broadly speaking , the human race has divided in its response to the vital choice that has been introduced in the foregoing paragraphs , and which can best be summarised as being between the following two major propositions . |
| 16 | Remaining controls over the currency composition of assets can largely be characterized as being consistent with prudential asset-liability management . |
| 17 | This approach seems to beg the question as to whether a suicide can ever be regarded as being in their right mind . |
| 18 | Sexual contact ‘ includes the intentional touching of the victim 's or actor 's intimate parts or the intentional touching of the clothing covering the immediate area of the victim 's or actor 's intimate parts , if that intentional touching can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification . ’ |
| 19 | The setting might appear incongruous but it can also be seen as being particularly poignant . |
| 20 | Decisions to postpone the actual wording or analysis categories can often be rationalized as being safeguards against too rigid a mental outlook on what may be a very exploratory field of research . |
| 21 | The component subskills can then be described as being automatised — the movements occur as the position of the pen demands them , without the writer having consciously to calculate them . |
| 22 | If however the means used is simply the issuing of a request as in ( 176 ) , then the causee can either be represented as being brought to perform some action as a result of the request ( get ) or as doing something under the influence or authority of the causer ( have ) . |