Example sentences of "is [verb] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament is the place where the representatives of the people debate matters of state great and small and the interest in ensuring that they are free to speak without fear or favour is regarded as outweighing all others . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly wind power is regarded as having considerable potential . |
| 3 | Where second class post is used , the document is treated as served four days after it was posted ( r 12.10 . ) . |
| 4 | Where first class post is used , the document is treated as served two days after it was posted . |
| 5 | In the Gospels Jesus is presented as violating various laws of sabbath , of cleanliness and of not associating with unclean persons , such as women , sinners and gentiles . |
| 6 | Most cultures recognise three broad stages of development , in both the individual and the group : ( a ) Primitive response to nature : Nature is accepted as containing all systems of order and mankind attempts its interpretation by immediate response to its stimuli . |
| 7 | ( 5 ) If a condition attached to an occasional licence is contravened as regards any club , every person whose name is , at the time of the contravention , contained in the list lodged under subsection ( 3 ) ( b ) of section 103 of this Act , or as the case may be in the new list last lodged under subsection ( 5 ) or ( 5A ) of that section , in respect of that club , shall be guilty of an offence : |
| 8 | The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy : |
| 9 | He is empowered to authorize the use of these powers to a properly constituted body and the RP is seen as fulfilling this role . |
| 10 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 11 | Their attitude is seen as giving Third World nations a licence to opt out themselves . |
| 12 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 13 | They point out that in the history of science it is clear that social and political factors play a great part in determining which theories are held on to and which are rejected ; certainly they play at least as great a part as the degree to which a theory is seen as having evidential support . |
| 14 | In fact , the message is seen as having little news value and is confined to wishes of a happier 1993 . |
| 15 | In the greatest of the Enlightenment philosophers ( notably Immanuel Kant , 1724–1804 ) the individual is seen as possessing ultimate worth and dignity . |
| 16 | Illus.1 conveys this well , not least by the way the baton is shown as held some way towards the middle . |
| 17 | Instead an elder ( like any human ) is understood as having enough power to act in a way that makes some difference to what happens . |
| 18 | Atomism made sense of the language of chemistry in that , if each symbol is understood as representing one atom , one can ask questions about how they are arranged ; if the symbols merely represent numbers , equivalent weights , then everything is much more abstract . |
| 19 | Newton is portrayed as influencing eighteenth-century perspective in an unspecified manner , although his effect on colour theory is seen as considerable . |
| 20 | Jesus is portrayed as violating many taboos relating to women . |
| 21 | The school is acknowledged as providing equal access and entitlement to a rich and varied curriculum . |
| 22 | A score of 6 is taken as indicating severe distress and 4 — 5 as borderline . |
| 23 | In Richmal Crompton 's School Is a Waste of Time ! , which we have recently published , he is recorded as saying that MP 's ‘ have n't anything to do but make speeches and they need n't even make speeches if they do n't feel like it and they 're paid money whether they make speeches or not , which seems very nice for the MPs … |
| 24 | After the Reverend Whickens came the Reverends Gwillam , Price and Jenning , and in 1840 , when the Reverend Lee was in charge , the village is recorded as having 148 inhabitants , and ‘ The living … endowed with the rectorial tithes , with the perpetual curacy of Bartestree united , and valued in the King 's books at £4. 6s. 8d. ; present net income , £284 . ’ |
| 25 | AVMD made $846,000 pre-tax in 1988 and is warranted as having net assets of at least $1.15m . |
| 26 | This political objective is perceived as needing pan-European companies capable of overwhelming international competition . |
| 27 | The Data Protection Registrar is quoted as warning local councils that they could break the law if they maintain a register of all adults for the council tax . |
| 28 | The Old Rectory is County Restaurant of the Year for Gwynedd in this year 's Good Food Guide , and Vaughan 's fare on the no-choice , £22-per-head menu is described as displaying much skill . |
| 29 | A sixteen-year-old boy is described as earning 2s 6d ( 12½p ) and one of thirteen 1s 6d ( 7½p ) , " but not constantly " . |
| 30 | On this theory , then , when I use the word ‘ I ‘ , I know what ‘ I ’ means by description , and it is described as meaning that bundle of mental states of which my use of the word is one member . |