Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer can it be described as the sick man of the industry ’ |
| 2 | NetWorld is in town October 13 through October 15 and it 's seen as the perfect opportunity to gather together Novell 's new OEMs and distributors , a subset of Novell 's Platinum and Gold resellers , for the hoopla . |
| 3 | Mansion House has only 24 , but it 's seen as the first step to putting the University at the forefront of childcare provision . |
| 4 | The reason it ends up swallowing and eating everything is that it 's seen as the only choice . |
| 5 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 6 | It 's described as the largest humanitarian crisis to afflict Europe since the second world war . |
| 7 | But again , what is often left out of such accounts of the unconscious , even as it is invoked as the prime destabilizer , is the importance of the perversions in precisely this respect : Freud insisted that what is operative from within the unconscious , producing this very instability , is repressed perversion . |
| 8 | It is conceived as the first step towards a written constitution for the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Increasingly it is seen as the only option left in the face of the continuing Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 10 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |
| 11 | The Government attaches a great deal of importance to this unprecedented growth in self-employment and small businesses : it is seen as the main drive to create an enterprise culture that will hopefully lead to an increase in the numbers in work . |
| 12 | It is cited as the very type of contemporary fortification , the last fling of the traditional style before the onset of serious and effective artillery changed the rules of defensive building ; and it makes today a magnificent as well as an instructive ruin . |
| 13 | IT IS revered as the last word in wonderful facts , loved by schoolchildren and eggheads alike . |
| 14 | The main importance of A. braziliense is that it is regarded as the primary cause of cutaneous larva migrans in man . |
| 15 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 16 | This award is significant in that it is regarded as the highest accolade within the weighing equipment calibration field and is only the seventh certificate to be presented within the UK . |
| 17 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 18 | It is represented as the final step in the progressive widening of rights of access to the full curriculum for children with special educational needs . |
| 19 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 20 | Today , it is known as the Minoan civilization , after the legends about King Minos , Theseus and the Minotaur . |
| 21 | When the amount is one mole ( see chapter 4 ) the constant is designated R. It is known as the molar gas constant or simply the gas constant . |
| 22 | It is known as the fair-haired boy ; yellow paint still faintly visible on the hair was much more strongly apparent when it came out of the earth . |
| 23 | This is the figure mentioned as so resembling the copies of the Tyrannicides that it is known as the Kritian boy . |
| 24 | It is also happy in New Zealand and in the USA where , confusingly and misleadingly , it is known as the American White Park . |
| 25 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |
| 26 | I am not rejecting the idea of Jesus being my representative — all I am doing at the moment is to point out some difficulties with it when it is considered as the central idea in the atonement theory . |
| 27 | It is remembered as the civilized old pastime of the Mughal court . |
| 28 | It was seen as the key element in the proposed transformation of the nation . |
| 29 | As it happened , re-emigration was a non-starter , but it remained government policy and , until the war , it was seen as the only long-term solution to the refugee problem . |
| 30 | In 1981 Bangladesh 's estimated population of 90,630,000 people meant that it was ranked as the eighth largest country in the world ( by population ) , and the fifth largest developing country . |