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 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Both Mr Sugar and Mr Venables are accepted as having forceful personalities . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | Also , the fact that free , rational human beings are still seen as requiring organised discouragement from committing crime implies an acceptance of its ‘ naturalness ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy : |
| 19 | The professionalisation of management in the late 1950s and early 1960s coincided with other economic trends , which may be seen as providing fertile ground for the seeds of the search industry . |
| 20 | An informal survey of the lunchtime customers suggests that the hotel is well established as a meeting place and that the lunches are seen as providing good value . |
| 21 | At first , new multi-disciplinary machinery and the procedures associated with it were seen as providing social workers with the necessary change of perspective . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Functional ’ because such institutions have to be seen as serving certain value objectives , in this case primarily the avoidance of war and mutual destruction . |
| 25 | For these suggest that holism and individualism can fruitfully be seen as serving different interests in social explanation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The key to this was seen as establishing close links with the private sector ’ ( Moore , 1986 , p. 9 ) . |
| 28 | Donald MacRae , a professor of sociology , for example , was seen as lending substantial support to the development of the polytechnics . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | appeared to have little interest in the sort of discussion groups generally seen as furthering mutual support and understanding … |