Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ] . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Both Mr Sugar and Mr Venables are accepted as having forceful personalities . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A person 's social life is seen as involving two kinds of performances . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At first , new multi-disciplinary machinery and the procedures associated with it were seen as providing social workers with the necessary change of perspective . |
| 11 | So notions and functions are generally seen as replacing linguistic structures as units of content , and a notional/functional ( and therefore communicative ) orientation is seen to be incompatible with a concern for grammatical structure and meanings intrinsic in form . |
| 12 | For these suggest that holism and individualism can fruitfully be seen as serving different interests in social explanation . |
| 13 | In all three cases the changes in the host , if we accept that they are Darwinian adaptations for the benefit of the parasite , must be seen as extended phenotypic effects of parasite genes . |
| 14 | The key to this was seen as establishing close links with the private sector ’ ( Moore , 1986 , p. 9 ) . |
| 15 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 16 | When anomalies come to be seen as posing serious problems for a paradigm , a period of ‘ pronounced professional insecurity ’ sets in . |
| 17 | Persistent truants , those truanting for weeks at a time , were seen as posing intractable problems for schools . |
| 18 | And there are senses in which this music can be seen as representing wider experiences , of workers particularly , within twentieth-century capitalist society . |
| 19 | Similarly , moderate versions of indeterminism ( especially the classical version ) allow a degree of predictability : although we are seen as making free choices , this does not preclude the specification of circumstances that influence choices in a particular direction . |
| 20 | As a language is variable at all times , the many different varieties can each be seen as having continuous histories , with influences passing to and fro between them , as represented in figure 3.2 . |
| 21 | The decision , reached by a 7-2 majority , was seen as having wider implications , since it dismissed the case solely on the grounds that those bringing it lacked the standing to sue [ see below ] . |
| 22 | So cities were again seen as having causal effects . |
| 23 | This was particularly valuable at a time when the chemical profession was coming to be seen as having different needs and interests from the learned chemical community . |
| 24 | Two objects may reflect the same wavelengths into our eyes yet be seen as having different colours . |
| 25 | If employed , they can be seen as having obsolete skills in which it is not worth investing . |
| 26 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 27 | The choice of Gore was also seen as reinforcing those areas — particularly foreign policy and environmental issues — where Clinton was seen as vulnerable . |
| 28 | The consequent reactions , both at grass roots level in increasing lawlessness exemplified by the Mushala Gang , a guerilla group in the north-west , and among the elite in a coup attempt organized by Edward Shamwana , a well known Lusaka lawyer , were typical reactions to a regime which was seen as protecting vested interests from below and being inefficient and bureaucratic from above . |
| 29 | It was also seen as inflicting profound effects on individuals ' lives . |
| 30 | ‘ That is something we asked for years ago which has not been implemented , particularly because Dublin is not prepared to co-operate with London in what they would see as interning Irish citizens on Irish soil . |