Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restraint covenants agreed to in respect of the merged firm will be unenforceable unless some part of the business can be properly regarded as continuing the merged practice and entitled to protection . |
| 2 | However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy . |
| 3 | Up to this time many astronomers had regarded Venus as the Earth 's twin , and that beneath the clouds , which were widely regarded as consisting of water , there were oceans and perhaps vegetation and animals . |
| 4 | Britain is widely regarded as having a political system which scores high on political institutionalization and low on personal leadership . |
| 5 | He was widely regarded as having one of the most brilliant minds in the Royal Navy . |
| 6 | His intervention , although criticized by Slovak leaders , was widely regarded as having facilitated a resolution of the devolution issue . |
| 7 | Pérez de Cuéllar 's report was widely regarded as having consequences advantageous to Morocco . |
| 8 | A separate document also released on June 7 , on NATO 's " core security functions " , was widely regarded as representing the United States perspective , and reiterated that " the security of North America is permanently tied to the security of Europe " . |
| 9 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 10 | This was widely regarded as indicating a warmer attitude towards NATO , in which France 's position had been ambiguous since it withdrew from its integrated military structure in 1966 . |
| 11 | It was widely regarded as presaging a new era of more co-operative meetings between the leaders of the two governments . |
| 12 | The composition of the new Cabinet , however , was widely regarded as strengthening the position of Mchangama , leader of the MWANGAZA party and son-in-law of the President . |
| 13 | These seven , led by Walter Sisulu , had since their release addressed major pro-ANC rallies inside South Africa , acting as if the organization were no longer banned , and were widely regarded as constituting an effective " internal ANC leadership " , although the organization denied the existence of differences of approach . |
| 14 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |
| 15 | After a further two months , Iran conducted another advance west of Mehran , which Baghdad duly reported as having been crushed . |
| 16 | The change was widely reported as bringing into question the government 's commitment to the phasing out of nuclear energy by 2010 , as approved in a 1980 referendum [ see pp. 30335 ; 30994 ; 34831 ] . |
| 17 | Matthew was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumour . |
| 18 | A harsh voice that Connelly recognized as belonging to the tall man with the dark , close-cropped hair . |
| 19 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 20 | The words ‘ I ask you , son , to care for the lands which will come to you with your usual diligence and look after them so that they may come to your sons ’ , although they do not sufficiently express a trust but advice rather than obligation to leave the lands , are none the less regarded as having the force of a trust in favour of the grandsons after the death of their father . |
| 21 | I agree with Sir Frederick Pollock 's note on the case of De La Bere v. Pearson , Ltd. when he wrote in Pollock on Contracts ( 13th ed. ) , 140 ( n. 31 ) that ‘ the cause of action is better regarded as arising from default in the performance of a voluntary undertaking independent of contract . ’ |
| 22 | He was n't highly regarded as having senior management potential . |
| 23 | Acceptance of an authority can be an act of identification with a group because it can be naturally regarded as expressing trust in the person or institution in authority and a willingness to share the fortunes of the group which are to a large extent determined by the authority . |
| 24 | The army , long seen as standing above the fray , dirtied its reputation in Kashmir earlier this year . |
| 25 | As well as diabetics , there is a borderline group of people who are better classified as having ‘ impaired glucose tolerance ’ rather than being frank diabetics . |
| 26 | What Claudia had in mind was some colouring of the evidence so that the district officer , Miles Turnbull , a harassed , overworked but popular man , who was dead — bien entendu — could be seen to have acted rashly in asking his askaris to point a gun at Tepilit , which Tepilit naturally interpreted as meaning they were about to shoot him . |
| 27 | This was rightly interpreted as meaning the abandonment of invasion plans — at least for that year . |
| 28 | This clutch of appointments , together with her post-Falklands dominance in the Cabinet , was widely seen as heralding the introduction of a Prime Minister 's Department . |
| 29 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 30 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |