Example sentences of "[prep] being [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Young threw three touchdown passes , including two to Jerry Rice , while Joe Montana , back in uniform for the first time in two years , stayed on the sidelines after being listed as the 49ers ' third-choice quarterback . |
| 2 | HOWARD Davies , 41 , controller of the Audit Commission , was swiftly presented with an ‘ agenda ’ yesterday after being confirmed as the next director-general of the Confederation of British Industry at a performance-related salary estimated to be starting at £175,000 . |
| 3 | Barry Crawley , the Saracens No 8 , has been suspended for three weeks after being identified as the player who punched Gloucester scrum-half Marcus Hannaford , out for five weeks with an eye injury . |
| 4 | It seemed that Jason was keen to distance himself from the increasing danger of being known as the future Mr Minogue . |
| 5 | Ralph Metcalfe , that great sprinter of the early thirties and adversary of Jesse Owens , was not , I suspect , enamoured of being known as the ‘ Midnight Express ’ . |
| 6 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 7 | Further , does he realise that Rolls-Royce now has very little chance of being specified as the lead engine on the 777 ? |
| 8 | When I got back to base , instead of being welcomed as the returning hero I thought myself to be , I was asked what had taken me so long . |
| 9 | He 's fed up with being known as The Charmer . |
| 10 | Indeed , far from being seen as the fragrant components of pot-pourri or as the aromatic base for creams and lotions , herbs were the only vegetable element of the medieval and Tudor kitchen . |
| 11 | Far from being perceived as the harbinger of an amoral ‘ social Darwinism ’ based on the worship of brute force , Darwin 's theory became a foundation stone of the nineteenth century 's faith in the inevitability of progress . |
| 12 | It is the portrait of a brash , insensitive but privately vulnerable man , who suffered from being portrayed as the comic perpetrator of ‘ Goldwynisms ’ : ‘ the public stayed away in droves ’ , ‘ include me out ’ , and many more , many apocryphal . |
| 13 | I have always felt uneasy in being known as the founder of the regiment . |
| 14 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 15 | She held posts in Northumberland and Dundee before being appointed as the first educational psychologist in Dumbarton . |
| 16 | British fascism was to come close to being rationalized as the political revolt of the romantic imagination in the twentieth century . |
| 17 | It was the first time that 36-year-old Gilbey had been seen in public since being named as the man on the phone in the love-tapes scandal . |
| 18 | ‘ She has suffered considerable personal distress since being identified as the one responsible for the bomb hoax and will be very upset by a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 19 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
| 20 | Happily , the Department of the Environment was so appalled at being cast as the number one villain that the certificates came almost by return of post and the Coal Board now felt isolated and exposed . |
| 21 | The Swiss , for example , feel blackened at being caricatured as the world 's sweepers-up , and the Spanish smart at their portrayal as lazy gypsies . |
| 22 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 23 | No , she is a very staunch , and always has been , member of the Conservative Party , and she would not erm upset the party at this present time by being seen as the person driving behind |