Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 2 | Today , cynics would say that a building contract never has the chance of being put away as disputes start from the moment it comes into operation . |
| 3 | Tired of being known only as Kylie Minogue 's long-suffering screen mum , Anne Charleston is treading the boards to prove she has other strings to her bow . |
| 4 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 5 | The Lord Chancellor has made it clear on the front of that document that they have been issued before being finalised so as to facilitate discussion . |
| 6 | In post-excavation analysis , groups of contexts are interpreted as representing walls , postholes , filled-in pits and ditches , and so on , before being put together as clues to structures such as buildings and fences . |
| 7 | The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway . |
| 8 | The patient does not have to be positioned uncomfortably as in myelography and multiple sites of cord compression , which are often not seen on myelography or computed tomographic myelography , can be visualised . |
| 9 | And to be turned away as well ! |
| 10 | Unless we are more attentive , the Guatemalan refugees are about to be ignored again as they suffer this time not from the cold war , but the ‘ new world order ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Normal life , I 'll read out to you , normal life is possible if diet during childhood is adhered to , in the female , if the female suffers , when she becomes pregnant the protein intake has to be monitored so as not to affect her developing baby . |
| 13 | In the secondary modern schools , though in principle it was pursued as a primary goal , as it was in the few technical schools that survived , yet because of the increasing aspiration within the schools themselves that their pupils should be seen to do as well as grammar school pupils , the practical gradually came to be despised there as well . |
| 14 | This brief flurry of brick-building will leave one with a house plus chimney , to be maintained just as before . |
| 15 | Everything had to be maintained just as it had been — for the day when Isabelle returned to Les Hiboux . |
| 16 | Opposition began to be organized locally as well . |
| 17 | The most important factor is for the library system as a whole to be organized so as to achieve its primary purpose : that is , the provision of books and other materials , leading to the provision of information . |
| 18 | Similarly arable farmer is no doubt to be explained historically as derived from the term arable farm ( in which we see an ascriptive adjective ) by means of an agentive suffix . |
| 19 | Obviously , this source of information needs to be examined carefully as each manufacturer is attempting to sell its own particular product . |
| 20 | The Philip Morris doctrine means that a merger may be caught by Article 85 if at least two competitors or potential competitors are involved and if the market behaviour of one or more of those concerned in the merger is likely to be influenced so as to distort competition and have an appreciable effect on trade between the Member States . |
| 21 | Partnerships had enabled the use of community schools at Liphook and Bordon to be run so as to offer their facilities to the public throughout the year , and the new methods had reduced the inevitable deficit of the sports centre to well below the national average . |
| 22 | The more products , the higher number of prospects will be interested , although a balance has to be struck so as not to provide so wide a range as to make it confusing . |
| 23 | This will allow them to be assessed microscopically as ‘ total ’ , ‘ extensive ’ , or ‘ left sided ’ providing important information about their cancer risk . |
| 24 | The horn part continues to be written entirely as for horn in F and its true character lies within the comfortable F-horn compass . |
| 25 | At first these tended to be employed mainly as illustrative material , but they are now increasingly being used as a means of developing certain historical skills or concepts . |
| 26 | Those words need now to be scrutinised closely as future events unfold and as the ‘ small print ’ of implementation is written . |
| 27 | The management of investment needs to be optimised so as to deliver a fully commercial return . |
| 28 | He stood up and walked to the window of the cold , cold room , putting aside with contempt his lifelong habit of arranging to be seated so as to hide his size when he was about to say anything that interested him . |
| 29 | In each of these cases , once the entitlement had been established the court would have power under paragraph ( a ) to order the register to be rectified so as to reflect the entitlement . |
| 30 | 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 . |