Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I retrieved the case notes for as many patients as possible who had been registered locally as having died of asthma during 1980–9 ( 21 case notes out of 40 in total ) . |
| 2 | The lists of items in Categories I , II , III and IV are not exhaustive , and it must not be assumed that items of storage not specifically mentioned are regarded automatically as coming under Category I. In general , items under Categories II , III and IV are those where experience has shown that the materials produce exceptionally intense firms with the high rate of heat release . |
| 3 | However , such groups possess a wider significance if they are seen either as representing the last stages of a long , discreditable history , or as one of the means by which this history is transmitted into the future . |
| 4 | On the " substantial " interpretation , they are seen simply as relating to certain terms which if substituted for variables in the relevant propositional schemata yield ( contextually ) true propositions , irrespective of whether or not such terms stand for actually existing objects . |
| 5 | Those authorities which are classed here as adapting to the care programme approach either spend some of their Mental Illness Specific Grant to satisfy its requirements or present the elements of the approach ( assessment , key working and review ) as an integral part of their plans for the year in question . |
| 6 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 7 | Thus the pleasures of heroin can be dismissed summarily as counting against , rather than for , the action of taking heroin , if we can say that it is a highly impure pleasure ( liable to lead to much wretchedness later ) . |
| 8 | How many can be regarded merely as affecting the objects in which the estate is now held to consist ( this is what the words permutatum dominium convey ) ? |
| 9 | Aircraft maintenance function would be considered today as having five generations of development , as follows ( see Fig. 5 ) : |
| 10 | The empirical work may be seen broadly as implementing the simple framework set out in Section 9–1 ( applied to current rather than lifetime income ) . |
| 11 | Many other obstacles to review , such as collusive disregard of inconvenient problems , when management of an institution prefers not to recognize a problem , and a course team does not want to be seen either as having problems , or as inconveniencing management , must be addressed by incorporating external expertise into the review process at judicious points . |
| 12 | Walsingham and Knighton also attempted to blame Wyclif and the Lollards for propagating revolt , but this must be seen only as scaremongering by the established order in the Church , attempting to tar the socially conservative academic heretic with the brush of revolution . |
| 13 | From this perspective , in imposing negligence liability the court can be seen merely as upholding private rights , and that is hardly an ‘ intrusion ’ . |
| 14 | Plant in late spring , and clip in mid-spring if required to be grown formally as edging , or to keep it within the space available . |
| 15 | Written by MIT Professor Paul Krugman , formerly on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers , and Professor Edward Graham , formerly in the office of international investment at the US Treasury , and later at the OECD in Paris , the report will be scanned carefully as indicating the current thinking of the Washington policy-making establishment . |
| 16 | Having regard to the objectives and the general scheme of the Convention , that it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 17 | Having regard to the objective and the general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 18 | As the court held with respect to the expression ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ used in article 5(1) ( see the judgments of 22 March 1983 in Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and of 8 March 1988 in Arcado [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 ) , having regard to the objectives and general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention of the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned . |
| 19 | Decisions about design , especially where these involve the introduction of technological innovations , can then be interpreted both as reflecting priorities within a society and as influencing the ways in which technological developments will affect that society . |
| 20 | certain words or acts can , as a matter of law , be interpreted only as amounting to a dismissal or resignation ; |
| 21 | Clearly the Order was prepared in some haste , but it can not be brushed aside as having been made out of an excess of caution . |
| 22 | Integrity is flouted not only in specific compromises of that character , however , but whenever a community enacts and enforces different laws each of which is coherent in itself , but which can not be defended together as expressing a coherent ranking of different principles of justice or fairness or procedural due process . |
| 23 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 24 | So frays will not be confused with phrase , and pint will be understood correctly as referring to beer or milk , even if it is read aloud incorrectly . |
| 25 | It may make for easier government and public convenience to restrict the tradition of marching and assembling for protest , but it would be a dangerous and a foolish idea to believe that public protest can somehow be laid aside as belonging to a bygone age . |
| 26 | The experiment had to be abandoned however as drenching rain was continuous and the tent was blown down . |
| 27 | The decision of an expert may be known either as 'speaking " or " non-speaking " . |
| 28 | Such a story could be viewed cynically as making a virtue out of necessity and that is indeed what it does do . |
| 29 | The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality . |
| 30 | If this is to be taken seriously as meaning that through learning language , rather than geography , history or other social sciences , pupils acquire better understanding of foreign cultures , then teachers need knowledge of the relationship between language and cultural learning . |