Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adjacent Forests of Epping and Hainault are viewed as an intolerable nuisance … the farmers uniformly declare that the privilege of commonage is by no means equal to the one-tenth part of the losses they constantly sustain from the deer in breaking down their fences , trespassing upon their fields , and destroying their crops either ripe or green . |
| 2 | They also suspected him of fomenting violence to prevent Inkatha being marginalized as a political force . |
| 3 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 4 | Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site . |
| 5 | The United States is left as the only global superpower , in effect . |
| 6 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 7 | The Chesapeake is known as the ‘ queen of the nation 's estuaries ’ . |
| 8 | ANDF is conceived as a ground-breaking way of enabling software vendors to write , package and distribute one single version of an application to run unchanged on laptops , workstations , servers , mainframes , even supercomputers . |
| 9 | Indonesia is regarded as a core area , with a key place in the Group 's business portfolio . |
| 10 | Last techy bit — Johnny is installed as a bona-fide screen saver under your Desktop icon in the Windows control panel , so it 's fully compatible with everything else , and not running as an add-in TSR . |
| 11 | Under its 1973 Constitution Syria is defined as a " Socialist popular democracy " . |
| 12 | Spencers became Knights of the Garter , Privy Councillors , ambassadors and a First Lord of the Admiralty while the third Earl Spencer was considered as a possible Prime Minister . |
| 13 | Arab League Foreign Ministers , at the conclusion of a summit meeting in Tunis on March 10-11 , agreed unanimously to move the League 's general secretariat back to Cairo , almost 11 years after Tunis was chosen as the League 's " temporary " headquarters in reaction to Egypt 's signing of the 1979 Camp David peace accord with Israel . |
| 14 | Francisco Perdomo Sandoval was appointed as the new Interior Minister on July 31 , replacing Fernando Hurtado Prem who had been forced to resign on July 23 , apparently following a wave of protests after anti-riot police violently evicted 500 campesinos ( peasants ) gathered in the Central Plaza in Guatemala City . |
| 15 | Hill was confirmed as the Canon-Williams-Renault team 's replacement for newly-crowned world champion Mansell in 1993 . |
| 16 | Col. Joseph Lemoine Florestant was appointed as the Chief of General Staff ; Col. Michel Louis as Inspector-General and Lt.-Col. Pierre Cherubin as head of the Port-au-Prince police , replacing Col. Ramus Saint-Vil who was appointed as director of the Military Academy . |
| 17 | This took time , and it was not until 1931 that Kell was chosen as the director around whom something like a national security service could be built . |
| 18 | In 1773 Scott was sent as a sickly child to stay with his grandparents at Sandyknowe farm , below the rocky plinth from which rises a fortalice with sturdy walls and gun-loops . |
| 19 | Close co-operation with the United States was seen as a means of saving time and money with little regard to the risks of losing some national independence . |
| 20 | This war has to be explained in terms of the collapse of the old order — not simply in the sense that the United States was left as the only superpower , but in the more profound sense that the collapse of the old order has far-reaching consequences for American society and politics , that this war is a defensive reaction to the deep disturbance caused by the end of the cold war . |
| 21 | An author of over 1,200 published opinions , Brennan was known as a strong opponent of the death penalty , a proponent of minority and women 's rights , and a believer in a broad interpretation of the Constitution . |
| 22 | When Standlake was proposed as a possible site then ? |
| 23 | We all knew that Steven was regarded as an eligible bachelor , but we did n't think that marriage was what he was eligible for . |
| 24 | The agreement with Carleton was developed as a result of Professor Peter Buckley 's contacts in the field of International Business . |
| 25 | Dahl was known as a staunch supporter of the anti-nuclear lobby , while Molin favoured a delay in the closures , arguing that their high cost might jeopardise Swedish industrial competitiveness and employment prospects . |
| 26 | Prince Edward was acknowledged as the new king , and Isabella and Mortimer as his regents . |
| 27 | Obliged to resign in 1974 when his aide Günther Guillaume was revealed as an East German spy , Brandt later headed what became known as the Brandt Commission on development issues , and from 1976 until September 1992 was president of the Socialist International [ see p. 39122 ] . |
| 28 | Rex was employed as a toy importer but had also been in wine importation before he joined Khai Eng full-time towards the end of the first year . |
| 29 | Penny was bought as a puppy for Vicky at Christmas four years ago and cost the family £250 . |
| 30 | As de Lattre presented his case , his plan to construct 1200 bunkers of the Siegfried Line-type ( one wonders why its French counterpart was not mentioned instead ) was to provide against future Chinese attacks but , on the assumption that the Chinese might be deterred , French success seemed to be simply a matter of US munitions and confidence and , although it might have been misleading as a performance indicator , at the end of his visit to the Pentagon de Lattre was rewarded with Defense Secretary Lovett 's assertion that General de Lattre was regarded as a comrade in arms and that the US would do everything they could for him that was within their capabilities . |