Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’ |
| 2 | Such claims , which would be dismissed today as unscientific , were taken seriously in the past even by the great , who were no less willing than the humble to accept as true what brought them comfort . |
| 3 | Obviously , this source of information needs to be examined carefully as each manufacturer is attempting to sell its own particular product . |
| 4 | The women can be listed exhaustively as ten bridesmaids , a woman searching for a lost coin , a widow seeking justice , and a handful of unspecified wives , mothers and daughters mentioned in general terms . |
| 5 | To the extent that it is used in many countries as part of the process by which scientists communicate , and through which scientific knowledge grows , it will be treated here as equivalent to the formal . |
| 6 | To manage education through a partnership requires that those who are untrained and whose views and reactions are unpredictable must be treated nevertheless as full contributors rather than as nominal collaborators . |
| 7 | When you come to harmonize these can then be treated either as chromatic appoggiaturas ( or non-modulating substitution notes ) , or as modulating accidentals . |
| 8 | For rule utilitarianism , in contrast , once a rule is shown to be felicific , it is established as something to be obeyed , unless perhaps in very special cases , and is not to be considered merely as one factor to be weighed against others . |
| 9 | COMMERCIAL air links with Libya are to be severed today as United Nations sanctions against Col Gaddafi 's refusal to hand over two men suspected of involvement in the Lockerbie bombing come into force . |
| 10 | For elders with histories of secure attachments , a diminished capacity to desire new attachments may be accepted sagely as age-appropriate — or feared and rejected as an unwelcome sign of old age and impending death . |
| 11 | In the end , the rising should probably be seen primarily as religious and political in character , although certain sectors of it , notably those in Westmorland and Craven , were concerned with such agrarian matters as enclosures and the rate of entry fines . |
| 12 | The situation can be seen either as successive waves of colonists from old established centres filling in the landscape with daughter settlements , or as a scatter of settlements , some of which develop while others remain unaltered . |
| 13 | Work towards modules can be done abroad as long as appropriate assessment evidence is produced and students are registered with an approved SCOTVEC centre ; this is useful for students on exchange visits . |
| 14 | There have been frequent demands for a single system and investigations of its possibility ; for after the introduction and spread of comprehensive schools it was clearly both inconvenient and divisive that pupils within the same school should be classified either as fit to take the GCE or fit only for the CSE . |
| 15 | Wirbel ( UK ) supply industrial cleaning machines , and have launched two workshop vacuum cleaners which can be used either as ordinary cleaners , or as remotely switched dust extractors . |
| 16 | It is best to concentrate upon essentials and for forms to be used mainly as aides-mémoire . |
| 17 | They can be bought either as small , round discs , which are sewn into the corners of curtain hems , or in strip form , to be inserted along the whole length of the hemline . |
| 18 | Members do not have to renounce their allegiance to other religions : they must simply pledge themselves to further the aims of the goddess , which could be summarised broadly as feminist , ecological and back-to-the-earth . |
| 19 | At first these tended to be employed mainly as illustrative material , but they are now increasingly being used as a means of developing certain historical skills or concepts . |
| 20 | Care must be exercised however as certain colours have specific connotations which may be important if colour codes are used . |
| 21 | Dunbar should be replaced forthwith as Chief Warden , a suggestion which met with no opposition . |
| 22 | This would be the case if texts could only be understood completely as long as they were accompanied by the single , correct title . |
| 23 | Ages tend to be entered initially as six , seven or eight mainly with a view to achieving an acceptable age of completion for secondary entry . |
| 24 | Perhaps one day the survivors could be brought together as some sort of retrospective exhibition — not impossible , especially if there is a will to mount such a show . |
| 25 | A demand will not , however , be set aside as irregular if the particulars of the debt as given are incorrect or even if the wrong form ( demand based on a debt not based upon a judgment ) is used , provided that the debtor understood perfectly well what debt was being demanded of him ( Re A Debtor ( No 190 of 1987 ) The Times , 21 May 1988 and Re A Debtor ( No 1 of 1978 ) The Times , 20 January 1989 ) . |
| 26 | They can be administered either as simple tablets or as a special , long-acting injection . |
| 27 | Fantasy may be experienced both as pleasurable and as dangerous . |
| 28 | Indeed , with so many claims ending in litigation or arbitration , there is increasing scope for surveyors to be involved either as expert witness or as arbitrator . |
| 29 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 30 | They are an expression of underlying inequalities which , while they may be categorized primarily as economic and social , must also be seen as political . |