Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] as [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would require , however , all women to have abortions who are diagnosed as having a Down 's child . |
| 2 | Yet one in every 200 people are diagnosed as having a schizophrenic illness at some point in their lives . |
| 3 | My husband has suffered from heartburn on and off for years and has recently been diagnosed as having a hiatus hernia . |
| 4 | [ T ] he mental health sector will be working in collaboration with the health service in developing a ‘ Care Programme Approach ’ to the provision of services to people who have been diagnosed as having a serious mental illness . |
| 5 | Since the development of the plate tectonics model , the Andes have sometimes been regarded as representing a classic example of the orogenic consequences of the subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath an overriding continental plate . |
| 6 | Elements which can all appear at the same position within a document are regarded as forming a model class : for example , the class phrase includes all elements which can appear within paragraphs but not spanning them , while the class chunk includes all elements which can not appear within paragraphs ( such as paragraphs , for example ) . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the main worries of small businesses is their relationship with their bankers who too often are regarded as adopting a cavalier attitude , ’ says Taylor . |
| 8 | Institutions , such as the Cabinet , are sucked out of the larger political and societal context that gives them meaning , and they are regarded as having a life and importance all of their own . |
| 9 | Financial advisors are regarded as having a special responsibility to ensure that all directors are aware of their responsibilities under the City Code . |
| 10 | If the central provinces are taken as typical , the neo-populist case is persuasive ; if , on the other hand , the outlying provinces are regarded as blazing a trail which central Russia would follow , it falls to the ground . |
| 11 | Before the High Court ruling , opposition parties had been reported as considering a boycott , amid allegations that Moi 's Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) was attempting to rig the elections . |
| 12 | They have been reported as spending a great deal of time analysing conversations that they have held with the various Ketamine entities . |
| 13 | So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community . |
| 14 | This world system and its evolution are seen as providing a historical framework , an account of world history . |
| 15 | This puts black women directly in the firing line : firstly , because they are seen as playing a key role in reproducing the alien culture , and , secondly , because their fertility is identified as excessive and therefore threatening . |
| 16 | In developed and developing countries alike indigenous paraprofessionals seem to be more effective than professionals in working with certain clients and communities or at the very least they are seen as adding a valuable dimension to social service provision . |
| 17 | Overall , the efforts to centralise the personnel department are seen as constituting a research site ‘ before and after ’ investigations can provide fully monitored evidence of the effects of organisational change . |
| 18 | Futhermore , the spatial aspects of this culture are seen as having a special significance . |
| 19 | She herself had been named as wearing a white robe — and was asked had she ever done so . |
| 20 | When numbers are written as figures a given digit stands for a word . |
| 21 | The fact that the research in 18 of the 23 subjects offered for assessment has been rated as reaching a level of national significance or better provides a very satisfactory base on which to building the University 's future as a research university . |
| 22 | If we had proposed a separate profile component for knowledge about language , it might have been seen as having a weight ( in terms of content , teaching time and assessment ) which was disproportionate in relation to the English curriculum as a whole . |
| 23 | She suggests that this was perhaps because women have traditionally been seen as having a passive relation to language which is similar to that of a simultaneous interpreter who translates the ideas of others but does not produce any of her own ( 32 ) . |
| 24 | Both schemes are accepted as playing a valuable role in institutional and personal development . |
| 25 | In climatology the system has been adopted as providing a suitable framework and appears as the introductory foundation for Causes of Climate ( Lockwood , 1979a ) , where it is argued that the application of systems theory and mathematics has completely changed the subject of climatology . |
| 26 | Subsequently what had been no more than a name implying a certain diplomatic affiliation between the Franks and Valentinian must have been interpreted as providing a genuine indication of the origins of the Franks . |
| 27 | None of the parts of ploughs from the period have survived except for the soil stain from a wooden object in a recently excavated , and unusual , grave at Sutton Hoo which has been interpreted as representing a complete ard-type plough . |
| 28 | On the one hand , it has been interpreted as indicating a revival of entrepreneurial vigour with new firms being formed either on the basis of new technologies or else in order to exploit market opportunities which have emerged as a result of the recession . |
| 29 | This result has been interpreted as indicating a small degree of price pressure . |
| 30 | Adolescent speakers are shown as making a choice between " English " and " Jamaican Creole " on the basis of domain ( home/school ; playground/classroom ) , interlocutor ( white/black ) and interaction type ( +/ — conflict ) . |