Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adj] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In none of these cases could the exposure be classified as substantial enough to call into question the validity of the control schools . |
| 2 | Our association of dominant ideology with bureaucracy has tempted us to reserve our notions of way of life for our villagers , thereby reducing bureaucrats and other representatives of the wider world beyond the boundaries of community to automatons , ciphers in depersonalised processes which are unintentionally portrayed as existing merely to threaten the way of life of local communities . |
| 3 | The case had been brought by the CDU which was widely perceived as anxious not to lose votes to the Republicans [ see below ] . |
| 4 | The catalogue of offences regarded as serious enough to merit dismissal for a single occurrence is sometimes lengthy . |
| 5 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |