Example sentences of "not [adv] [be] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The seller delivered copra cake so contaminated with castor beans that it " could not properly be described as copra cake at all " .
2 Some departments offer opportunities for supervised study that need not necessarily be undertaken as study for a degree or other qualification .
3 However , failure to limit fertility should not necessarily be interpreted as fatalism .
4 It is generally agreed that making a bad decision ( for which the remedy is an appeal ) will not normally be treated as ground for dismissal of a Circuit judge as showing ‘ inability or misbehaviour ’ .
5 The reconstruction of the interior of Uppark can not reasonably be described as maintenance .
6 The pattern revealed by kinship terms can not therefore be used as evidence of marriage systems in the way that Morgan believed .
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