Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] as the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) is properly regarded as the founder of utilitarianism . |
| 2 | Mr Gould was under pressure from front-bench colleagues last night to declare his candidature as soon as Mr Kinnock makes his decision public , in an attempt to head off Mr Smith , who is widely regarded as the favourite . |
| 3 | Burger King is widely regarded as the quality fast food hamburger restaurant chain . |
| 4 | Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means . |
| 5 | Our present minister for finance , Mr Klaus , is widely known as The Playboy . |
| 6 | ‘ Wisden ’ is widely hailed as the cricketers ' bible , but it has barely progressed beyond Chronicles ( the match reports ) and the Book of Numbers ( the records section ) . |
| 7 | In fact , it is basically seen as the professionals banding together to protect their own — especially so when set against the various Royal College of Surgeons ' statements that testing of patients after operative accidents is reasonable whether or not the patient agrees . |
| 8 | Yet this action ( 25 May 1810 ) , by creating a creole government , is rightly celebrated as the birthday of an independent Argentine Republic , although formal independence was not to be declared until 1816 . |
| 9 | Andy Garcia is somewhat under-used as the man who claims the fame and million-dollar reward as the ‘ hero of Flight 104 ’ . |
| 10 | Trustee Bradford Eastman Phillips , retired president of Totes rain gear company and a member of the $1 million-plus club , took title to the Great Hall , which is henceforth known as the Phillips Hall . |
| 11 | One of these , the Blacksmith s Arms , is familiarly known as the Bombers , from its wartime associations with Melbourne airfield , built partly on Seaton Ross Common . |
| 12 | Les never made it , but he 's no stranger to the wearing of shorts : the sub is better known as the FRUITBAT , third from the left in the front row of the pic . |
| 13 | Durkheim is generally regarded as the founder of modern comparative sociology ( a distinction which to some extent Marx and Weber must also be allowed to share ) . |
| 14 | Ambitious video games company Sega Enterprises Ltd is not playing games : it says it should reach annual sales of $5,000m by 1997 at the latest : the company controls 55% of the European video-game market and its main competitor , Nintendo Co , has 45% , it said ; it also reckons it has 54% of the US market , although Nintendo is generally regarded as the market leader there ; in Japan , Sega has just 20% . |
| 15 | He is generally recognized as the historian of athletics in the Royal Air Force . |
| 16 | This figure is generally accepted as the UK average . |
| 17 | The sailfish is generally credited as the world 's fastest fish . |
| 18 | This new approach to world geology is generally known as the Plate Tectonic Theory , or just Plate Tectonics . |
| 19 | is thus known as the energy spectrum . |
| 20 | The value of reports on one or two skeletons is not to serve as the basis of any theory of morphological relationships , but to provide standardized data which may eventually be built into a general picture of population at one period or through time . |
| 21 | While senior officials recognize this as a problem requiring constant monitoring , the level of anxiety about it remains low , and it is not seen as the forerunner of a future threat . |
| 22 | The Kingman Report explained that although this accent must be the standard for foreign students of English in Britain , it is not used as the model of English pronunciation in British schools , since speakers may be rightly proud of their regional pronunciation , which identifies where they come from . |
| 23 | Therefore ‘ easing ’ , which is normally presented as the opposite to work , can for the neighbourhood men ( and also the community relations police ) be construed as official police work , and quite often much of the best community work is done by neighbourhood men when they seem to be relaxing . |
| 24 | It is normally expressed as the number of grams per mole . |
| 25 | A temperature of 121°C is normally regarded as the minimum needed to achieve sterility . |
| 26 | With , however , we have which is normally understood as the region inside the horizon . |
| 27 | The area of a building is normally taken as the area enclosed by the internal faces of the external walls ( 11 sq ft equals 1 sq metre . ) |
| 28 | The ban is desperately needed as the EC imports around 1.5 million birds annually . |
| 29 | The alarming escalation of damages in recent cases is best explained as the response of ordinary people to falling standards in the popular press . |
| 30 | Even monetarists would accept that monetary policy is best regarded as the means of keeping monetary growth within fairly broad medium- or long-term target ranges . |