Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intended as a critique of contemporary English society , Utopia has since been claimed as the work of ‘ the first socialist ’ . |
| 2 | In " Inside the Whale " George Orwell described how the post-war group of writers , Pound , Joyce , Eliot and Lewis ( who have since been described as the " modernists " ) were united by their pessimism : unlike men such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells , they had seen through the ideals and systems of the late nineteenth century which had come to such a smash in the early decades of the twentieth . |
| 3 | This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) . |
| 4 | There is only one explanation of what has hitherto been accepted as the basis of the criminal law and that is that there are certain standards of behaviour or moral principles which society requires to be observed , and the breach of them is an offence not merely against the person who is injured but against society as a whole . |
| 5 | Just as the classical and baroque triumphed in the design of state capitols and ultimately fed back into railway stations , so did Australia cling to forms which had never entirely been superseded as the official architectural language of imperialism . |
| 6 | SERBIA 'S president , Slobodan Milosevic , has long been regarded as the artful dodger of Balkan politics . |
| 7 | A British international cap has long been regarded as the ultimate achievement for the amateur golfer . |
| 8 | The continuous return to the same subject to wring out every ounce of meaning from it , has long been regarded as the hallmark of the true professional . |
| 9 | The second site , at Chedworth , has for so long been accepted as the typical Romano-British villa , that one hesitates to question its function . |
| 10 | It is true that baroque had long been adopted as the style for state capitols in the United States , but the Beaux-Arts style in all its overblown pomposity was to reflect this new sense of greatness . |
| 11 | The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( LCCI ) Examinations Board has long been recognised as the major international awarding body for secretarial qualifications . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that instead of treating the sea as the giver of life to mankind , as it certainly is , it has for far too long been treated as the world 's sewer . |
| 13 | Physics has long been held as the most successful of the sciences . |
| 14 | The National Conference has long been established as the premier event in the Institute 's calendar . |
| 15 | You mention that : ‘ In Africa , heterosexual intercourse has long been established as the primary transmission route — with the number of men and women infected being almost equal . ’ |
| 16 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 17 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |
| 18 | While the venerable AT–6 had long been used as the Hollywood Zeke , its resemblance to the real thing was marginal at best . |
| 19 | Up to this point the children have all been acting as the giant . |
| 20 | OUP is pleased to announce that Volumes 1 and 2 of The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English are having their sub-titles promoted and will henceforth be known as The Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms and The Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs . |
| 21 | At a congress on May 26 , 1990 , the Left Party-Communists ( Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna — VpK ) voted by 136 votes to 133 to drop the word communist from its name ; it would henceforth be known as the Left Party . |
| 22 | It is in this sense that lawyers can also justly be characterised as the organic intellectuals of the bourgeoisie ( Gramsci 1971 , pp. 5–23 ) , thinking the class 's advance through a close institutional relationship with its day-to-day practical concerns . |
| 23 | ‘ Chris ’ Nelson can justly be described as the Henry Ford of ice cream novelty production . |
| 24 | He will merely be remembered as the man who told us , as the Minister of Energy during the four-day week in the last days of the Heath government , to clean our teeth in the dark , for heaven 's sake . |
| 25 | Binary signals can only be transmitted as the equivalent to ‘ on-off ’ , ‘ yes-no ’ and ‘ 0–1 ’ , for example . |
| 26 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 27 | Positive assurance on a series of assertions may only be expressed as the outcome of validation procedures . |
| 28 | A ballot-paper can only be transferred as the result of a surplus if its value is .01 or more . |
| 29 | In relation , however , to " a covenanted payment to charity " ( as defined in TA 1988 , s660(3) ) the amount will only be treated as the income of the person making the payments if the period for the payments can not exceed three years ( TA 1988 , s660(2) ) . |
| 30 | These paintings , in other words , could only be read as the site of a complex play of forces . |