Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the 1970s most banks relied on their networks of overseas correspondent banks ( sometimes referred to as the banks ' own banking system ) to meet customer needs as regards international trade payments and finance . |
| 2 | As we have seen , in the Third Reich it was the specific circumstances of the rise of monopoly capital , the corporatist state organised as protecting national purity , hyperinflation , the rapid rise in unemployment and perceived threats to the ‘ little man ’ . |
| 3 | The group had earlier threatened to attack French , United States and United Kingdom targets in the city in revenge for what they described as planned Western aggression against Iraq . |
| 4 | Several widely used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs have been reported as causing severe hepatitis . |
| 5 | Hitler 's speech , in fact , though according to one local report in Bavaria said to have brought about a ‘ direct miracle ’ and from SD soundings to have prompted the standard wish that the Führer would speak to the people more often since his words provided greater stimulation than anything else , was reported as provoking less discussion than usual . |
| 6 | Based on a national postal survey to chief constables in 1986 , it is estimated that 75–80 000 young people are reported as missing each year in Britain ( De'Ath , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Almost 25 per cent of all the farms in Wales were reported as having low standards of living ‘ with an element of struggle in making ends meet financially ’ . |
| 8 | Known for more than 20 years as Nguyen Ai Quoc , ‘ Nguyen the Patriot ’ , under this name he was reported as attending international conferences and became the author of numerous articles . |
| 9 | Officials at the presidency were quoted by Agence France-Presse as criticising as " too anti-Turkish " a speech which Hovhannesyan had made in Istanbul on Sept. 21 ; Armenia had earlier been reported as requesting 100,000 tonnes of grain from Turkey [ see p. 39109 ] . |
| 10 | The judge is not reported as making any speculation as to the source of this knowledge , which is obviously from the newspapers themselves . |
| 11 | Sending the editor a copy of parents ' newsletters as a regular routine will sometimes create interest in events at school which you will not have considered as having any press appeal . |
| 12 | We found two women ( 6% ) who had rapid transit time and could be considered as having clinical diarrhoea but neither had consulted a doctor about it and we do not know when their diarrhoea began in relation to their operation . |
| 13 | In the Gospels Jesus is presented as violating various laws of sabbath , of cleanliness and of not associating with unclean persons , such as women , sinners and gentiles . |
| 14 | Most cultures recognise three broad stages of development , in both the individual and the group : ( a ) Primitive response to nature : Nature is accepted as containing all systems of order and mankind attempts its interpretation by immediate response to its stimuli . |
| 15 | Faced with a given set of words which are capable of conveying that meaning it is not surprising if the words are accepted as having that meaning . |
| 16 | ‘ Both Mr Sugar and Mr Venables are accepted as having forceful personalities . |
| 17 | Although ability tests receive a higher ranking in terms of their predictive validity from these meta-analytic studies than they do from Muchinsky , personality tests were rated as having lower validity . |
| 18 | ( 5 ) If a condition attached to an occasional licence is contravened as regards any club , every person whose name is , at the time of the contravention , contained in the list lodged under subsection ( 3 ) ( b ) of section 103 of this Act , or as the case may be in the new list last lodged under subsection ( 5 ) or ( 5A ) of that section , in respect of that club , shall be guilty of an offence : |
| 19 | Did you know that your EC-approved pads must be ‘ as light as possible without prejudicing design strength and efficiency ’ ( sub-section 1.3.2 ) , or that your box ‘ must be so designed and manufactured as to facilitate correct positioning on the user and to remain in place for the foreseeable period of use , bearing in mind ambient factors , movements to be made and postures to be adopted . |
| 20 | Asked about Bosnia , Mr Major said he did not regard the US airdrops as presenting any danger of retaliation against British troops on the ground in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 21 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 22 | They may be seen as lacking basic training which can be rectified by the intervention of psychiatrists , psychologists , social workers , probation workers or other similar welfare professionals . |
| 23 | The lack of substantial commitments to action is widely seen as reflecting conflicting interests and clashes within the government , particularly among the Departments of Transport , Energy , Agriculture and Trade and Industry where the environment is a contentious issue . |
| 24 | The strength of the protest vote against the mainstream parties was seen as reflecting popular disillusionment with their unsuccessful attempts to resolve the country 's long-running linguistic problems and to complete constitutional reforms [ see p. 38465 ] . |
| 25 | Also , the fact that free , rational human beings are still seen as requiring organised discouragement from committing crime implies an acceptance of its ‘ naturalness ’ . |
| 26 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 27 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 28 | Whether these types of initiative ought to be included within the development theme is arguable , but labour-supply considerations may be seen as constraining urban output . |
| 29 | The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy : |
| 30 | He is empowered to authorize the use of these powers to a properly constituted body and the RP is seen as fulfilling this role . |