Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareholder monitoring may be depicted as taking an owner-like , internal form , involving scrutiny of management and replacement of under-performing directors via the company 's democratic channels , or an external form , whereby dissatisfied shareholders dispose of shares in the market , possibly triggering the removal of the board via the market for corporate control . |
| 2 | The referendum was reported as recording an 87.01 per cent turnout and 99.87 per cent approval for sovereignty for Kosovo . |
| 3 | In September 1989 , following a private conference , the Lord Justice was reported as launching an education programme for judges on sentencing and treatment of child sex abusers . |
| 4 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |
| 5 | Jesus will be presented as offering an invitation — just as he did to his disciples — an invitation freely given and freely accepted or rejected . |
| 6 | Curiously , however , marriage was not seen as requiring an ecclesiastical ceremony before the twelfth century . |
| 7 | The notion of acquired distinctiveness was originally devised by theorists wedded to an associationist interpretation of all forms of learning ( Miller and Dollard ( 1941 ) , drawing heavily on the S-R theory of Hull ( e.g. 1939 ) ) , who were thus seen as offering an associative account of perceptual learning . |
| 8 | President Joaquim Chissano , making his first official visit to the United States , met President George Bush on March 13 for two hours of talks , in what was seen as marking an improvement in relations between the two countries . |
| 9 | Young black people were seen as engendering an anti-British culture that , because of its criminal overtones , inevitably lead to conflict with the forces of law and order . |
| 10 | Yet , in Hungary anti-Semitism itself is not seen as posing an impediment to democracy . |
| 11 | This is seen as representing an opportunity for the club to achieve its objectives and must be seriously considered . |
| 12 | The fact that most of us , most of the time , do not translate these capabilities into action is precisely what is seen as needing an explanation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Where the services can not be seen as making an economic contribution , they are clearly improving the quality of life for members of the community , which is presumably the ultimate goal of raising productivity and standards of living anyway . |
| 15 | What we as farmers say to the contrary is often ignored because we are seen as having an interest to represent . |
| 16 | Indeed , the Stewart monarchy can be seen as having an unusually easy time , in comparison with the difficulties faced by others in imposing royal rule elsewhere in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 17 | In a real sense , then , sociology can be seen as having an important ‘ critical ’ role to play in monitoring and assessing the impact of social policy , and in questioning accepted assumptions in these areas . |
| 18 | An extensive Cabinet reshuffle on Feb. 19 involved some 20 changes and numerous new appointments , and included the transfer of the Foreign Affairs Minister Habib Boulares , regarded as the most pro-Iraqi member of the government , to Defence ; the departure from the Cabinet of Hamouda Ben Slama , who as Minister of Youth and Sports had been seen as having an " affinity " with Islamists ; and the appointment of Habib Ben Yahia , a US-educated career diplomat and former ambassador to the UN , to take over Foreign Affairs . |
| 19 | Such integration may be seen as reinforcing an allegiant rather than a neutral or alienated orientation to the political system . |
| 20 | The graphic EQ offers another range of tone control over the Carvin and , being switchable , could be seen as adding an extra channel . |
| 21 | The common practice of putting pencil notes on the abstract itself is to be deprecated as defacing an important document , and it is also easy to miss these notes on an old and tattered abstract that has already been marked by previous investigators . |
| 22 | Using the 95th centile of the percentage of failed peristalsis in controls ( 26.9% ) , seven patients before treatment and seven patients after healing of oesophagitis were classified as having an abnormally high incidence of failed peristalsis . |
| 23 | Though the Report could be interpreted as advocating an exchange rate union , it is now accepted that it recommends a currency union . |
| 24 | This , incidentally , at the same time seems to dispose of the view that existential propositions might be interpreted as involving an ascription of the property of existence to certain objects of thought . |
| 25 | Certainly these associative processes can just as readily be interpreted as constituting an associative mechanism for categorization or concept formation in that they allow physically different stimuli to come to be treated in the same way . |
| 26 | This was interpreted as constituting an indirect rejection of one passage in a report on the Western Sahara presented by Boutros-Ghali at the beginning of June in which the parties were given until Aug. 30 to reach an accord , failing which , it said , the Security Council might look for a different approach . |
| 27 | Here the gearbox is shown as having an internal association with the passenger compartment . |
| 28 | This is further demonstrated by the decision in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026. 3.2 Business secrets There is no doubt that business secrets are recognised as constituting an interest meriting protection . |
| 29 | The description ‘ schizotypal ’ is really just a modern equivalent of the older one , ‘ schizoid ’ , which has long been recognised as having an affinity with schizophrenia . |
| 30 | Open only to the trade , the exhibition is recognised as having an international reputation which attracts visitors from all major markets throughout the world . |