Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Spencer is taken as the model it seems clear that Victorian evolutionary social theory was far from being collectivist in its orientation . |
| 2 | Brisbane is targeted as the next location in 12–18 months but would not speculate on whether it would be another dual function site . |
| 3 | The United States is left as the only global superpower , in effect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Chesapeake is known as the ‘ queen of the nation 's estuaries ’ . |
| 6 | Although Kim is hailed as the Beloved Leader , 12 corrective camps are believed to provide 152,000 less-adoring citizens with re-education . |
| 7 | Ivan 's son Djuradj is honoured as the first man to introduce a printing press into the Balkans . |
| 8 | IBM was perceived as the winner , just as today , even the things it does right are in trouble because IBM is perceived as the industry 's most emphatic loser , and more and more people are talking seriously about the company being in danger of going the same way as Prime Computer Inc , Wang Laboratories Inc and Control Data Corp . |
| 9 | The ratio of OF to OA is known as the eccentricity . |
| 10 | In 948 an attempt by Venice to conquer Ragusa was repulsed , according to legend , with the miraculous help of St Blaise ( San Biagio ; Sveti Vlaho ) , who in England is known as the patron saint of woolcombers . |
| 11 | Aberdeen is used as the main processing centre for letters and parcels posted in towns and villages throughout the north-east and Shetland . |
| 12 | But in mediaeval woodcuts , on stained-glass windows and in classical Christian art , the apple symbolizes the first sin and Eve is portrayed as the first sinner . |
| 13 | Denmark is cited as the most successful member state in terms of implementing EC directives , with a compliance rate of 99 per cent ( 109 out of 110 directives implemented ) . |
| 14 | Barker is perceived as the finger that plugs the Ministry/Jourgensen dam . |
| 15 | Spenser 's Irenius is presented as the voice of experience , the man who has front-line knowledge of the Irish and who , as the dialogue tries to show , has a firm grasp of the Irish situation past and present . |
| 16 | STANLEY Woods is regarded as the greatest all-round motorcycle sportsman ever and the repeat of Stanley Woods — the Movie ( BBC1 10.10pm ) , a film more about the man than the sport is seasonally topical . |
| 17 | Similarly , experts will talk about Persian carpets and Anatolian ( Turkish ) rugs , regardless of the fact that both countries produce items in all sizes , shapes and designs ; this is probably because Persia is most famous for its magnificent Court carpets , while Anatolia is viewed as the home of the prayer rug . |
| 18 | In the minutes of 1847 , Mr Alfred D. Blott is described as the senior of the two ‘ Station Clerks ’ , he had been first appointed on 18 September 1838 , the day after the final section of the L & B Railway was opened . |
| 19 | Blackpool 's emerged as the dirtiest beach . |
| 20 | Posthumous records and books have been released and nowadays Bashlachev is recognised as the only bona fide genius of Russian rock . |
| 21 | Nicholas Dyer is imagined as the builder of Nicholas Hawksmoor 's churches in the East End of London ; the enlightened edifices of a rational Christianity are thereby ascribed to a devil-worshipper , while the name ‘ Hawksmoor ’ is assigned to the Detective Chief Superintendent who , in the later narrative , frets himself into a delirium over a series of stranglings which takes place in the vicinity of the churches . |
| 22 | Explaining social behaviour — such as such selflessness — in terms of biology ( especially genes ) is a hallmark of sociobiology , of which Dr Wilson is regarded as the father . |
| 23 | GKS is billed as the ‘ first international computer-graphics standard ’ . |
| 24 | Marius Leitdorf is known as the Mad Lord of Averland . |
| 25 | The area is still very floatplane oriented , indeed Red Lake is known as the Norseman Capital of the World . |
| 26 | In this view , Christ is regarded as the inspirer and perfecter of culture . |
| 27 | James Beck 's long awaited monograph looks at the man and his achievement ; in his pages , Jacopo della Quercia is championed as the least provincial and most ‘ Italian ’ of fifteenth-century sculptors , an artist sensible to his environs , constantly adjusting his own stylistic language , and eventually producing an individual synthesis of classical , gothic , and contemporary influences in his major works . |
| 28 | Bruno is rated as the No.7 challenger to Mike Tyson , with Mason , the British champion , at No.8 . |
| 29 | ( This procedure is reminiscent of the Christian and especially Catholic usage in which the Virgin Mary is known as the ‘ Mother of Jesus ’ . ) |
| 30 | When God is posited as the First Cause , the very ideas of cause and effect are being torn out of the context in which they properly belong , that of the perceived regularities in the world of which we are aware . |