Example sentences of "[prep] [being] [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 | On being intruded briefly as vicar of Duxford late in 1646 he had been labelled ‘ a godly and orthodox divine ’ . |
| 8 | Top : These roses have been placed in a pot of water prior to being pressed gradually as the petals open . |
| 9 | George frowned sharply , irritated at being stopped just as he was getting well into his stride . |