Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Family life for many appeared to be disintegrating as divorce rates rose : from 100 000 per annum in 1914 to 205 000 in 1929 .
2 At best , his work is defined by what is known to be available as source material .
3 It can not be given to many scientists to be outstanding as experimenter , technical innovator and teacher ; Kuypers was unquestionably all of these .
4 Even the shape and colour of an article have been held to be acceptable as trade marks .
5 Once it was felt not to be reliable as evidence for Jesus ' own history and teaching , however , most of what the psychological biographies had chiefly depended upon was removed along with it .
6 If it does turn out he 's personally involved I 've got a feeling it 's going to be difficult as hell trying to prove it . ’
7 The context provided by the sentence is considered by this model to be valuable as recognition data .
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