Example sentences of "[being] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the routine maintenance revenue account the resurfacing of Beech Hill and the construction of a footpath were being treated as priorities . |
| 2 | ‘ in situations like the present the defendants ‘ are ’ the company in the sense that any offences committed by them in relation to the affairs of the company would be capable of being treated as offences committed by the company itself . |
| 3 | It has been suggested by Customs and Excise that rent free periods may be the subject of value added tax by virtue of their being treated as inducements . |
| 4 | Far from being treated as adults , however , students on the course were talked down to as though they were children . |
| 5 | Moreover , the so-called ‘ permissive society ’ was not protecting women from being treated as sex-objects : far from it ; pornography flourished , kerb-crawlers harassed passers-by on the streets . |
| 6 | This is a notably bad piece of drafting by the Commission , giving the impression that conservation considerations are being treated as cosmetics . |
| 7 | • If you and your spouse are both being treated as in-patients by the NHS for the same road accident , this payment will be tripled to £78 for each night , again free of tax . |
| 8 | They rightly insist on being treated as individuals . |
| 9 | In short , people are being treated as individuals with priorities and resources . |
| 10 | Freud uses these two specific examples to suggest that psychoanalysis has shown that , in these cases , the animals or birds are being treated as substitutes for a parent , and the ambivalent feelings towards the animal reflect the feelings of the child towards the father — love and fear . |
| 11 | The reason for this is to avoid those who appointed the administrative receiver being treated as mortgagees in possession or being held liable for the receiver 's acts which would be the case were the receiver to be treated as their agent . |
| 12 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 13 | When the NHS was founded , people were grateful to have access to free health care and accepted not being treated as equals . |
| 14 | They all laughed and it helped to relieve the tension , but when they returned to the occupational health centre , far from being criticised for their performance , they heard only praise and found they were being treated as heroes . |
| 15 | Neglect of this obvious truth led to computer programs ( say , for language analysis ) being regarded as failures if they could not record 100% success . |
| 16 | However , the courts have frequently recognised that businessmen do not share the lawyer 's desire for certainty , and that insistence that all terms be precisely agreed would prevent many business agreements being regarded as contracts at all . |
| 17 | There are detailed rules contained in regulations , which can be used strategically by representatives , and the documents used to outline the grounds of claims are increasingly being regarded as pleadings , so that inconsistencies or changes of tack revealed later may prejudice the parties . |
| 18 | Rather than being regarded as actors who make their own history , individuals are to be seen as the ‘ supports ’ of social practices who maintain and reproduce them . |
| 19 | Peel told the NME : ‘ The Wedding Present 's virtues are that they make records which are direct and uncomplicated and it seems that these are now being regarded as vices in some quarters . ’ |
| 20 | This was followed by a wedding staged as if the Bride and Groom were being manipulated as puppets by a group of servants , a particular japanese theatrical tradition . |
| 21 | Women 's power is n't going to come from the unions , it 's going to come from being organised as women . |
| 22 | Wright because the directors had held themselves out as agents of some of the shareholders and thus were capable of being considered as fiduciaries to those shareholders . |
| 23 | That occurs simply by physical processes , primarily gas being trapped as bubbles under the action of breaking waves . |
| 24 | Appeals will surely ensue but in the meantime we may well sympathise with those Soprintendenze who feel tempted to put all restoration work on hold in the fear that in carrying out their proper duties they may find themselves being sentenced as criminals . |
| 25 | Rather than being seen as partners in the search for a solution parents may be seen as part of the problem ( Moses and Croll 1987 , Wood 1988 ) . |
| 26 | Instead of being seen as fighters on behalf of those who struggle with the system , we are seen as architects and defenders of it . |
| 27 | Lesley and even Emma and I are being seen as lads , unfeminine , trying to be blokes . |
| 28 | Traditional propaganda techniques centred on the newspaper press were used on an unprecedented scale : by 1917 four chateaux were being used as hotels for journalists and influential visitors to the front in northern France . |
| 29 | A new system has been established to record the number of addresses in Darlington which are being used as houses in multiple occupation . |
| 30 | A concern for the environment has resulted in harmful gases no longer being used as propellants in hairsprays , by recognizing that a non-aerosol spray is preferred by many , TiGi Linea have produced Finishing Spray which has a medium hold and is a fine spray which is invisible once it dries . |