Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] [adv] an " in BNC.

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1 The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes .
2 Seeing Renaissance writing deploying its resources to justify genocide as moral , divinely justified and ‘ civilising ’ , forces us to accept that Renaissance literature 's role has too frequently been accepted as unquestionably an instrument of enlightenment in some unexplored way .
3 The basis was no longer to be the palace scaled down , but the cottage extended : ‘ In this view of a villa , the dwelling is to be considered as only an amplification of the cottage . ’
4 Its actions and policies are formed by local as well as national events , and it must be seen as both an agent of , and an obstacle to , central government .
5 The Middlemen can thus be seen as both an acid criticism of British society and a purge of Brooke-Rose 's oeuvre .
6 It should be acknowledged that eq 3.1 must be viewed as only an approximation to the true state of affairs .
7 Counting women into psychology has to be read as both an advance for feminism , and a co-option of it .
8 Some premises are not given to be divided and therefore an absolute prohibition on subletting or charging of part may be appropriate and acceptable .
9 Those responsible for implementing RMI need to ensure that it is these latter opportunities that are projected and not an attack on clinical judgement .
10 The IE-3 probes contained a strong Vmw175 binding site ( 23 ) located at the cap site of the HSV-1 IE-3 gene and were isolated as either an AvaI-BamHI fragment ( coordinates -18 to +27 ) or as an EcoRI-BamHI fragment ( coordinates -108 to +27 ) from the plasmid pIE-3CAT ( 20 ) .
11 In the speech which he made in the House of Lords debate on the bill , Lord Brougham pointed out that one half of the cases where ‘ serviceable process ’ had been used were settled before even an appearance was entered .
12 When the accident happened at around 4:15 yesterday afternoon , it is thought the two men had already passed the most arduous section of what is regarded as only an averagely difficult ice climb route .
13 But if the moment of performance is considered as potentially an act of composition , a different perspective can emerge .
14 The problem is identified as primarily an environmental problem with environmental solutions .
15 Woman to Woman was produced as both an exhibition and a book , it has already toured to a number of venue throughout the UK and is still available for hire through The Royal Photographic Society in Bath .
16 The brutish , uncaring nature of the staff was conveyed as almost an inevitable necessity brought about by the institutionalisation of working in such a place ; just as the public will accept that prison warders will overstep the line from time to time because of the people they are dealing with .
17 Sultan Sir Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei , President Suharto of Indonesia , Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed and Singapore 's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong met in Bali on March 3-5 for what was described as neither an informal summit meeting nor a mini-summit , but a seminar , with the theme " ASEAN and the world economy " .
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