Example sentences of "[adv] as being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friday 18th June will go down as being Black Friday in the minds of certain men at the Institute . |
| 2 | So I 'm always reaching down to people , and I do n't mean down as being inferior , reaching out to people is a better phrase , and I , I never give up about people wanting to partake . |
| 3 | then they 'll mark you down as being non-competent |
| 4 | By leaving the analysis at the abstract level , Freud has enabled some psychotherapists to oppose all crowd phenomena in religious and political action , to see it all as being pathological . |
| 5 | In animals , X would have to be genetically specified , although it might be specified merely as being different , in any way , from other members of the species . |
| 6 | Indeed , the first ( voluntary ) codes of recommendation for livestock drawn up by the Ministry of Agriculture were described as setting standards below which profitability would be jeopardised , not as being desirable for the animals ' welfare . |
| 7 | Factors such as the availability and characteristics of labour are seen as having been important at certain periods ‘ until the early 1970s ’ ( ibid. ) , but not as being fundamental . |
| 8 | She must have known that anyone who tries to convey a message in rock music is brushed aside as being pompous or bombastic , because journalists in their King 's Reach Ivory Towers think rock is too sacrosanct to be tainted with the real world . |
| 9 | Erm , the order book is ticked off , each order that 's in there it 's ticked off as being complete . |
| 10 | Consequently the NHS inherited a large number of public hospitals containing many who were defined as chronically ill and written off as being impossible to rehabilitate and restore to the community or independent living . |
| 11 | The underprovision of clinical and medical oncologists remote from the south east of England is real , and the disparity can not be passed off as being due to university and research commitments . |
| 12 | Those technologists and designers who question these processes and challenge the long term viability of the present approach to systems design are written off as being unrealistic or even senile . |
| 13 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 14 | We need to develop an understanding of Britain and Britishness in which racial and religious minorities can not be written off as being alien . ’ |
| 15 | To a large extent this is due to a natural tendency , already mentioned earlier , to simplify the whole issue by treating experiences as logically on a par with other phenomena , and hence as being tractable with the help of basically the same conceptual machinery . |
| 16 | And the new life , the Christian life , is described concisely and clearly as being different from the old way . |
| 17 | Sometimes you might even be lucky enough to be endowed with the qualities of the people you play — John Wayne , for example , was held up as being symbolic of everything that was good and right about America . |
| 18 | This restates the previous position at common law , that a person who holds himself out as being prepared to carry out a service is expected to exercise a level of skill that could be expected of a reasonably competent member of the relevant trade . |
| 19 | The offer is made when the proprietor of the machine holds it out as being ready to receive the money . |
| 20 | A body of men and women ( a ) identifiable by reference to some register or record ; ( b ) recognised as having a special skill and learning in some field of activity in which the public needs protection against incompetence , the standards of skill and learning being prescribed by the profession itself ; ( c ) holding themselves out as being willing to serve the public ; ( d ) volun-tarily submitting themselves to standards of ethical conduct beyond those required of the ordinary citizen by law and ; ( e ) undertaking to accept personal responsibility to those whom they serve for their actions and to their profession for maintaining public confidence . |
| 21 | insert one word from list B near the end of list A , and vice versa ( sometimes called a " sore thumb drill " ) , e.g. : Listen down list A , and then down list B. The sound in the word from the other list should stand out as being different from the rest of the list . |
| 22 | erm employed people have a regular activity erm on a daily basis , and that activity is carried out with a time structure , so that the hours of the day are different from each other , the days of the week are marked out as being different from each other , the weeks are marked out by being different from each other as well , and also you 're situated in time in a different way — you 're on some sort of career , you can see some way in which your life is progressing . |
| 23 | And each took half a dozen items dear to both and secreted them in places their childhood dramas had singled out as being adult-proof . |
| 24 | Would we want to rule him out as being conscious , on the grounds that the above condition is a necessary one ? |
| 25 | Also , by looking at the activities you are good at and enjoy you may well discover talents and abilities which you have not considered before as being useful in a job . |
| 26 | The police treated those who refused to turn back as being vulnerable to the charge of obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty , contrary to section 51(3) of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 27 | ‘ As far as being good at PR , we were also good at running a business . |
| 28 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 29 | But as far as being anal about my equipment , as some guys are , I do n't really give a shit as long as it sounds good and works . |
| 30 | The Lead Scandal is manifestly a propaganda effort , as the title suggests , and his presentation of the evidence is rather one-sided , as well as being emotional and full of accusations of scientists and politicians with whom he disagrees . |