Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate reason for the outbreak of war was the French king 's confiscation of the Duchy of Aquitaine on the ground that Edward was harbouring Robert of Artois , a rebellious vassal of the French king who had fled to England in 1336 after being condemned as a traitor . |
| 2 | The pool has been closed after being condemned as a health hazard because of structural faults . |
| 3 | Steve Young threw three touchdown passes , including two to Jerry Rice , while Joe Montana , back in uniform for the first time in two years , stayed on the sidelines after being listed as the 49ers ' third-choice quarterback . |
| 4 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , controller of the Audit Commission , was swiftly presented with an ‘ agenda ’ yesterday after being confirmed as the next director-general of the Confederation of British Industry at a performance-related salary estimated to be starting at £175,000 . |
| 5 | Webb concerns the dismissal of a woman who discovered that she was pregnant shortly after being hired as a maternity leave replacement . |
| 6 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 7 | Moore ( 1938a ) and Feare ( 1970a ) agree that growth in N. lapillus usually stops at maturity , tree years after being laid as an egg . |
| 8 | She was a shy , retiring girl who had been brought up in a convent school after being abandoned as a baby . |
| 9 | At the risk of being regarded as a gardening Miss Marple or Sherlock Holmes , it is a good idea to have a magnifying glass in your pocket when you take a turn around the roses . |
| 10 | Yet despite his undoubted success Reid has never really got past the stage of being regarded as a ‘ nearly man ’ a jockey who never quite clicked with the racing public . |
| 11 | Until the physical appearance of puberty a girl enjoys the privilege of being regarded as an image of the great Goddess . |
| 12 | ‘ Satisfaction of being regarded as an expert ’ |
| 13 | Some of the disadvantages of being treated as a believer rather than a researcher were experienced in a rather dramatic fashion by a sociologist who , while studying a Hindu sect , underwent a perfectly genuine conversion . |
| 14 | Secondly , if , instead of being treated as a claim about the actual functioning of the suggested markets , the argument is taken to mean that it is possible to design a set of rules such that the proposed markets do operate to restrain corporate managerial power , it encounters an overwhelming obstacle . |
| 15 | At the risk of being treated as a terrible simplifier I venture to assert that the author of Daniel 7–12 was evidently writing or at least putting the last touches to his prophecies immediately after the reconsecration of the Temple ( in December 164 ? ) . |
| 16 | The Board instructed their clerk to communicate with the governors of the infirmary on the matter , and in his reply a week later , the house surgeon there ( who acted as hospital secretary ) said that he had thought the case capable of being treated as an out-patient . |
| 17 | A lifetime of being treated as an object rather than as a human being must be very debilitating . ’ |
| 18 | Paul Lexington had too much at stake in the production to take the risk of being discovered as a murderer . |
| 19 | This position is in danger of being misunderstood as an opposition to the changing position of women in society . |
| 20 | However , it would be simplistic to conclude that the two Mcs ( McLuhan and McDonald 's ) have succeeded in shaping the global village in the form of a fast food outlet or that the ‘ real ’ world is in the process of being reconstructed as a universal theme park along the lines of Disneyland . |
| 21 | No matter how often we tell people that a dog is for life , not just for Christmas , some are always abandoned within hours of being given as a present . ’ |
| 22 | He had the advantage of being seen as a man of peace , whereas Reagan made many voters nervous . |
| 23 | Was it just the wine , or the heart-warming sense of being seen as a beautiful woman ? |
| 24 | We felt that a positive message delivered through TV advertising could help us regain the position of being seen as a market leader , a quality provider and a major innovator in financial services . |
| 25 | As part of their attempt to cure themselves they developed their own delusionary worlds , which were in turn often treated by non-analysts as a symptom of a disease instead of being seen as an attempt at self-cure . |
| 26 | There will also be the option of being audited as an individual centre ( for example , a single college or training organisation ) or as a network ( for example , a group of neighbouring schools or a group of workplaces ) . |
| 27 | This has the advantage of being expressed as a number and is thus amenable to statistical analysis , but it does not recognise different types of colonic pressure waves . |
| 28 | If this does occur , then the Act will be seen to have been part of a ‘ softening-up ’ exercise , creating the conditions within which abolition of the right is capable of being presented as an inevitable rationalization , without actually tackling it directly . |
| 29 | On the other hand , if you appear too submissive you stand in danger of being dismissed as a bit of a weed . |
| 30 | The relief only applies to accommodation that is ‘ part of your main home ’ , so if you are thinking of creating a separate flatlet , you will need to take care that this qualifies and that it is not at risk of being assessed as a commercial let . |