Example sentences of "be [verb] as the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 2 | In this context knowledge can be understood as the presuppositions shared by members of a social group and as the meanings through which their action and experience are mediated — as a whole it may be recognized as the perspective of the social group . |
| 3 | Yukawa realised that the short-range attractive force between nuclear particles could be explained as the exchange of a massive intermediate particle . |
| 4 | For the materialist Richards meaning was to be explained as the use of words either to point to things or to evoke feelings — in terms of behaviour , in the last analysis . |
| 5 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 6 | The ‘ neighbourhood effect ’ could also be explained as the product of repeated association between the different classes in the same locality . |
| 7 | This failure could be explained as the product of political inexperience . |
| 8 | It could also be explained as the product of pride — a disdain for integrating himself into any kind of partisan organization . |
| 9 | Either because its causal impact is outweighed by structural considerations ( a possibility that will be discussed in Chapter vi ) , or because it is itself to be explained as the effect of social wholes and their properties . |
| 10 | In a paper written in 1905 , a few weeks before the famous paper on special relativity , Einstein pointed out that what was called Brownian motion — the irregular , random motion of small particles of dust suspended in a liquid — could be explained as the effect of atoms of the liquid colliding with the dust particles . |
| 11 | It would make no sense to say that the dots in the picture had a Gestalt of themselves , but to apply this model to the brain and experience would be just like that ; for , if the experience just is a state of the brain , then there is no way in which the character of the experience can be explained as the result of some perspective on the brain . |
| 12 | Secondly , he rejects the very assumption of classical theory that economic phenomena can ultimately be explained as the result of universal needs . |
| 13 | Marx is deeply opposed to the idea that a theory has a ‘ starting-point ’ , and in particular to the claim that social phenomena can be explained as the result of universal properties of individuals , and Althusser sums up his scepticism with an epigrammatic flourish : the classical idea that man makes his own history must be countered with the question ‘ How is the man who makes history made ? ’ |
| 14 | And in his discussion of the parts played by people of exceptional talent he simply asserts that these individual capacities are to be explained as the result of social circumstances . |
| 15 | This is because the behaviour which is to be explained as the result of an instinct being present in an organism is , itself , the main evidence for the existence of the instinct in the first place . |
| 16 | By this Marxists mean that change and power in all human society can be explained as the result of the struggle between contending classes . |
| 17 | These amount , as we saw , to the belief that many social phenomena are to be explained as the outcome of actions performed by individuals or groups , and the view that groups can only do things if individuals do . |
| 18 | As we have seen , individualists are anxious to explain social states of affairs as the outcome of individual actions and attitudes which can not themselves be explained as the outcome of social states of affairs . |
| 19 | As a result , difficulties in the education service can be explained as the consequence of incidents of which they are probably the cause . |
| 20 | Once again , this association might be explained as the consequence of bringing up a child vulnerable to schizophrenia . |
| 21 | By that time the information contained in the audited accounts would be so out of date that it would not reasonably be foreseen as the basis for a business judgment concerning the extension of credit to Berg or the discounting of bills . |
| 22 | 4 If any of the member(s) ( " the Defaulting Member(s) " ) fails to comply with the terms of a Compulsory Sale Notice given to him , the Company shall be constituted the agent of each Defaulting Member for the sale of his shares in accordance with the Compulsory Sale Notice ( together with all rights then attached thereto ) and the Directors may authorise some person to execute and deliver on behalf of each Defaulting Member the necessary transfer(s) and the Company may receive the purchase money in trust for each of the Defaulting Members and cause the Proposed Purchaser to be registered as the holder of such shares . |
| 23 | Stamp duty can not be avoided on a share sale as the stock transfer forms will need to be stamped before the purchaser can be registered as the owner of the shares . |
| 24 | By a further letter , also sent from Riyadh , dated 14 January 1992 , Mr. Qalib reconfirmed his earlier instructions on behalf of ‘ my Government ’ and gave his written consent , pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 15 , r. 6(4) , for ‘ the Interim Government of the Republic of Somalia ’ to be joined as the plaintiff in these proceedings . |
| 25 | They are likely to be revised as the circumstances of mothers ' lives change through the 1990s . |
| 26 | The law respects the right of the shareholders to determine the objectives of their association through contract and accepts that by virtue of their capital contributions they should be regarded as the owners of the company . |
| 27 | Within a year , the LNG operation has become a major contributor to the company 's production and cash flow and can be regarded as the jewel in LASMO 's crown . |
| 28 | Weber can thus be regarded as the founder of abstract field theory . |
| 29 | When he retired he had come to be regarded as the founder of modern veterinary research . |
| 30 | The usually veiled criticism contained in the report material , and the open comment coming to light in denunciations and court prosecutions , have necessarily to be regarded as the tip of the iceberg . |