Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterson had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning in December 1991 after a scandal involving tax waivers for an oil company [ see pp. 38670-71 ] . |
| 2 | Three of them are adults , but rumours that they may be Bosnian soldiers have been dismissed as irrelevent . |
| 3 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 4 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 5 | On Sept. 9 it was announced that the only Romanian Cabinet official of Hungarian nationality , Deputy Minister of Culture Andro Horvath , had been dismissed as part of an efficiency drive . |
| 6 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 7 | Jagan , 75 , once a hardline Stalinist , had first led the PPP to an election victory in 1953 , in the pre-independence period , but had been dismissed as Leader of the House of Assembly , when the UK government suspended the Constitution in the face of perceived " communist subversion " [ see pp. 13152 ; 13177 ; 13239 ; 13523 ] . |
| 8 | Thousands of the films and publications have been incinerated as part of a year long clampdown on the trade . |
| 9 | Existing ESA payments are calculated as compensation for not intensifying production . |
| 10 | Hamburgers and disco biscuits are undercover terms for the rave drug Ecstasy , while royalty is cocaine and poor quality drugs are dismissed as flea powder . |
| 11 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 12 | If the terms and conditions are altered as part of Newco 's rationalisation of the business , employees may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal . |
| 13 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 14 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
| 15 | Now assume that age-specific birth rates are given as age 1 = 850 , age 2 = 715 , zero otherwise . |
| 16 | The results are given as Table 4 . |
| 17 | To the extent that income has been retained , payments out are treated as income . |
| 18 | As she probably knows , half of all patients are treated as emergency cases , half come from waiting lists . |
| 19 | However , attached lean-to garages are treated as home extensions , and must have full Building Regulations approval , especially as far as fire precautions are concerned . |
| 20 | The point is that the one exploitation is part of the other , either way women are treated as shit . ’ |
| 21 | The amounts charged are treated as part of the net cash flow of the business and are available for use as transfers from fixed assets to current assets and possibly back again , in whatever way is most beneficial to the business . |
| 22 | The amounts charged are treated as part of the net cash flow of the business and are available for use as transfers from fixed assets to current assets and possibly back again , in whatever way is most beneficial to the business . |
| 23 | Secondly , paralinguistic features of the ‘ vocal effect ’ type are treated as part of intonation , and it is not made sufficiently clear how these are to be distinguished from prosodic features . |
| 24 | Advertisements sent to relevant European institutions are exempt because those institutions are treated as Art 9(3) experts in relation to investment advertisements relating to activities falling within their home-regulated business ( see para 44 of Sched 10 to the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 25 | For example , Private Acts of Parliament are treated as legislation even though they may regulate the conduct of only a single individual ; on the other hand , an ‘ administrative order ’ affecting a large number of people may be difficult to distinguish from as legislative act . |
| 26 | ( Under the SGA and the UCTA " trading " stamp redemption contracts are treated as sale of goods contracts . ) |
| 27 | And since grazing leases are treated as property by the Internal Revenue Service and are taxed accordingly , who could pay for managing public lands if the cows were given the boot ? |
| 28 | Sales vouchers for payment made by the bank credit cards such as Access and Barclaycard are treated as cash . |
| 29 | These 4,505 persons are treated as representative of persons considered responsible for crime during the mature colonial period . |
| 30 | Extracts from these figures are listed as Table 1 , which records expenditure on libraries and computing for the universities involved in the present study , and Table 2 , which ranks these universities in terms of the proportions of post-graduate research carried out in these institutions . |