Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the executor and administrator have long been regarded as having the deceased 's possession continued in them ; when they assume office their title relates back to his death . |
| 2 | The problems identified here of delay , cost and complexity have long been recognised as requiring to be redressed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Poor breeding in wet , cold springs ; clear-felling of Scots pine forests ; the proliferation of dense sitka spruce plantations ; and over-shooting have all been suggested as contributing to the capercaillie 's retreat . |
| 5 | For example , foot , took , shook , look have all been attested as alternating between [ ? ] and [ ü ] , while soot , cook , book , hook seem always to be pronounced with [ ü ] . |
| 6 | In this context that word would , I believe , naturally be read as meaning the person who made the deposit in question . |
| 7 | Thus , in the following , he can naturally be interpreted as referring to whoever it is that John refers to : ( 39 ) John came in and he lit a fire We will return to anaphora , but just note here that it is perfectly possible , as Lyons ( 1977a : 676 ) points out , for a deictic term to be used both anaphorically and deictically . |
| 8 | If during repairs , further underlying damage is found , this damage may only be accepted as coming within the cover of the policy if it is directly related to the incident giving rise to the claim . |
| 9 | The governing body was concerned that setting up its own separate committee structure would not only be perceived as competing with the existing structure ( with all the attendant risks of a developing ‘ us and them ’ mentality where one rarely existed before ) , but would also be repetitive . |
| 10 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 11 | Yet systematic exclusion of women from higher education can only be seen as having forced the great majority of capable women out of the intellectual mainstream . |
| 12 | The fact is that many have an aroma and flavour which is unique — for instance , basil can only be described as tasting like basil . |
| 13 | However , about a quarter " can only be described as having limited competence in Patois " ( p. 100 ) . |
| 14 | Here the needing and the daring are situated in time as realities , and as such they must necessarily be conceived as occupying a before-position with respect to do and turn , as a need calling for action and an exercising of audacity leading to the achieving of a result . |
| 15 | This semantic shift should not necessarily be interpreted as indicating a decline in nationalism or racism . |
| 16 | Anderson and Roberts can perhaps be seen as offering us different facets of essentially a similar situation , where feelings of affection and concepts of duty are taken into calculations about mutual advantage based on material considerations . |
| 17 | We have already seen how get denotes the process leading to the obtaining of a result and so is represented as occupying a before-position with respect to the infinitive 's event ( = the result ) . |
| 18 | Here also the support of the infinitive is identified with that of the finite verb and so is depicted as having realized the action of struggling with the intention of performing the infinitive event . |
| 19 | Although this formulation has been referred to in subsequent cases it has not been adopted as laying down an all embracing test . |
| 20 | The outcome of these cases is that the Chinese wall has not been seen as providing satisfactory protection for the interests of the former client and , despite the existence of a Chinese wall , the courts have required the law firms not to act on behalf of the new client . |
| 21 | A distinctive , erratic song with some metallic-sounding notes coming from the hidden depths of a thicket had finally been identified as belonging to a bluethroat , surely one of the most beautiful small birds in Scandinavia . |
| 22 | If children who have already been diagnosed as suffering from some specific handicapping condition are included , the data will show the expected age delay before this group matches the performance of the normally developing children . |
| 23 | A selection of commonly used naming words which incorporated consonants in the appropriate contexts was tried out with 130 normal children and 57 children of average or above-average intelligence who had already been identified as having retarded phonology . |
| 24 | These comments suggest that the test is unlikely to be useful as a screening instrument but , when used in conjunction with other tests or with children who have already been identified as having language difficulties , it may assist in the generation of a balanced assessment of a child 's strengths and weaknesses . |
| 25 | Lee does , however , report that a group of 18 children , who had already been identified as having delayed language , showed a wide gap between comprehension scores which were in the ‘ low-normal range ’ and expressive scores which were ‘ very low ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Cutaneous injury to tissue and muscle , even when there are no outer marks on the horse , has already been established as taking place from research now underway and further development along this avenue must be explored . ’ |
| 27 | In Fletcher , a nineteenth century case involving a mentally deficient 16-year-old girl , three judges expressed the view that , if such a girl acted out of ‘ animal instinct , ’ she would nevertheless be regarded as having consented . |
| 28 | In this way F must soon be interpreted as standing for ‘ Fail ’ . |
| 29 | Urry 's model can thus be seen as representing the constituents of a place . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) Where a right of action to recover land has accrued and after its accrual , before the right is barred , the land ceases to be in adverse possession , the right of action shall no longer be treated as having accrued and no fresh right of action shall be treated as accruing unless and until the land is again taken into adverse possession … |