Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] as [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , a woman who submits to sexual intercourse having been threatened with or fearing serious injury or death is not regarded as having consented . |
| 2 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 3 | Today 's vagrants , squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere . |
| 4 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 5 | In spite of the high risk profile of the participants , that is , an average of seven previous and often recent convictions ( see above ) , 95 or 63 per cent of the sample were not recorded as having committed further offences during the twelve month follow-up . |