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Example sentences of "to be [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	The question is whether grammar ought to be taught as a separate formal study , like harmony or counterpoint , or whether a teacher can assume that it will be picked up through practice .
2	Search for a peptide was rewarded by the discovery of a compound containing five amino acids , which combined powerfully with the opiate receptor and had all the necessary properties for it to be recognized as a new transmitter substance .
3	There was a fondness for the strict classical style , as seen in Moscow Kiev Station , affirming a desire to be recognized as a fully-fledged European power .
4	The Attorney-General subsequently announced that libel was to be treated as a criminal offence , provoking protests against censorship from the local and foreign press .
5	At present , Customs ' policy is to allow VAT incurred on holding company activities , unless it relates to exempt transactions , to be treated as a general overhead and recoverable according to its overall partial exemption status .
6	–here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer .
7	If older people are not to be disadvantaged , and not to be treated as a separate class defined solely on the basis of age , it is vital that the debate about rationing care is a public one ; and that principles about equality and individual value are considered alongside economic imperatives .
8	The singles chart needs to be treated as a separate entity , and not as a cheap promotions gimmick for greedy businessmen .
9	Similar rules apply to loans and advances to credit institutions , with the additional categories of amounts payable on demand or at seven days ' notice and those payable within three months , although here where amounts are repayable by instalments each instalment is to be treated as a separate amount .
10	This enables each division to be treated as a separate profit centre , facilitating ‘ the imposition of standardized financial goals on the various divisions , in place of ad hoc evaluations of the performance of noncomparable functional parts ’ .
11	‘ We expect this to be treated as a separate case of possession of heroin for personal use , ’ she said .
12	This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries .
13	This is done in Appendix C , but to anticipate briefly , the reasons depend in essence on two facts : ( a ) Whenever a property is qualified it remains a property , so that e.g. ( P P ) P reduces to P P ; ( b ) The property of an adjective can not normally be applied to another property-word but only to an E. Thus while ( P E ) P reduces from a purely structural point of view to P P , it needs to be treated as a distinct pattern when the final P is an adjective , since , unless the E can be taken into account , the structure will be literally incoherent .
14	Section 1(4) stated that in deducing any relationship for the purposes of s1(3) any relationship by affinity is to be treated as a relationship by consanguinity , any relationship of the half-blood is to be treated as a relationship of the whole blood , the step-child of any person is to be treated as his child , and an illegitimate person is to be treated as a legitimate child of his mother and reputed father .
15	The reductionism is produced by his anxiety to be treated as a serious scientist , but he is mistaken in thinking that only biologically observable or biochemically measurable concepts and propositions count as science in the study of human action .
16	Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer .
17	The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction .
18	The category of trade customer allows a firm to treat a company or partnership which is otherwise a small business investor as an ordinary business investor in relation to any particular transaction if : ( 1 ) It has a main business which is not investment business ; ( 2 ) It enters into the transaction as an integral part of its main business ; this term will need to be clarified by SFA in due course ; ( 3 ) The firm reasonably believes that the customer has sufficient experience and understanding to waive the private customer protections and can produce evidence of that ; ( 4 ) The firm has given the customer a clear written warning of the main private customer protections that he will lose ; the key ones are listed by SFA ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) but if the firm intends to ask the customer to waive best execution that should be referred to as well ; ( 5 ) The firm notifies the customer in the warning that he can ask to be treated as a private customer ; and ( 6 ) The customer has not informed the firm that he wants to be treated as a private customer , either generally or in relation to the particular transaction .
19	However , because the customer does not need to state in writing that he wants to be treated as a private customer , it is best to have an express written consent .
20	So where Bangladeshis spent periods of time in the United Kingdom interspersed with periods in Bangladesh and then brought their families to the United Kingdom , took temporary accommodation , and then applied to be treated as a homeless person , it was held that the local authority was entitled to refuse them .
21	‘ I prefer to be treated as a National Health patient .
22	Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit .
23	The very detailed survey carried out by Spicer and Riddy in 1977 has now to be treated as a historical document , even though many requirements placed PGCE courses by the nature of contemporary schools have not changed and therefore there are still many relevant details in their report .
24	We are looking at or , we will be looking at all grants that are made by all committees , to decide which ones in our view should be recommended to you to be treated as a corporate kind of grant .
25	By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ .
26	For example , HARPY uses a finite-state machine which allows many sub-parts of an utterance to be treated as a self-contained recognition problem .
27	Putting them to one side from the ordinary trainee where you could expect jobs and N V Q's to be the outcome , and for them to be treated as a special case .
28	The Labour party and trade unions say farmworkers need to be protected and need to be treated as a special case .
29	SPECIAL school wants to be treated as a special case because the summer holidays are too long for children with profound difficulties .
30	This last kind of connection , though it is sometimes treated as a kind of cohesion ( Halliday and Hasan 1976:28–7 ) , is really too dependent upon individual experience and knowledge to be treated as a formal link .