Example sentences of "[vb base] be [vb pp] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | A recent Chinese assurance on ballistic missile sales to Middle Eastern countries , accreditation for a Voice of America journalist , and discussions of a possible resumption of the Fulbright academic exchange programme , have been dismissed here as inadequate . |
2 | The weights used should be increased once 3 sets of 10 repetitions have been achieved so as to make the weight training progressive . |
3 | fund , er and we say that er , er we hope your Lordship will be with us on the main issues , but if your not , we say there are very powerful reasons of English and community law including er the obligation on the court under article five , to ensure that the , er the , the trials some two years hence lasting some five weeks with all the expert evidence , my learned friend says will be necessary , should not in the interim have the effect of er frustrating er the operation of er apparently valid provisions in the United Kingdom statutes and the Lloyds Acts and byelaws , which er , are themselves measures that have been adopted so as to pursue the policy |
4 | Mains supplies of potable water have been regarded generally as of reasonably high standard , apart from the suspended matter in some and the hardness of others . |
5 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
6 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |
7 | Pghorbol esters such as 12- O -tetradecanoylphorbol 13-acetate ( TPA ) can substitute for diacylglycerol and have been used extensively as tools to investigate actions of protein kinase C. |
8 | Indeed , very often cultural styles — those of the mods and the punks , for example — have been used precisely as forms of rebellion or critique , in relation to the everyday world of work and consumption ( see Hebdige 1979 ) . |
9 | All circulation spaces within the building — corridors , galleries , staircases and lift lobbies — have been designed so as to exploit the brick-built elements of the original structure . |
10 | That seems to me to be a very moving description of somebody who is preaching to people , not from any sense of superiority , but rather from a sense of human concern and caring about the people that she is addressing , and this makes the way in which George Eliot writes about her very different from the way in which other methodist preachers have been described either as ranters , erm or as people who are so caught up in what they are saying themselves that the fail to make any pay any attention to the people that they are addressing . |
11 | Two figures who have been described respectively as the grandfather and father of Serbian literature were Dositej Obradović ( 1743–1811 ) and Vuk Karadžić ( 1787–1864 ) . |
12 | Many theories have been put forward as to the origin of AIDS but there is no scientific agreement . |
13 | The two cases analysed so far have been chosen so as to clearly reveal , in a very simple context , the method of determining transient response through Laplace transformation . |