Example sentences of "best [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some perennials that are best treated as biennials , such as polyanthus , can also be sown within the next month . |
| 2 | Icelandic Poppies ( P. nudicaule ) are perennials best treated as biennials sown in July and planted out in the autumn for flowering from early Spring . |
| 3 | All these statements are best treated as being theoretical models , which are built up by Freud on the basis of the types of emotional relationship which he had observed during his work with patients and conceptualized in a terminology of his own . |
| 4 | On the whole they are best regarded as expressing a desire to maintain and demonstrate right relations between God , man and his neighbour . |
| 5 | Such laws , although sometimes run together with causal laws , are best regarded as otherwise . |
| 6 | If this is the case extrapolated profiles are best regarded as means to supplement knowledge rather than as a primary method . |
| 7 | But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past . |
| 8 | The store or stores are almost certainly active rather than passive records of events and knowledge so that these also are best considered as processes . |
| 9 | Working class marriages may perhaps be best considered as economic and emotional support systems . |
| 10 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 11 | Rose blooms take a variety of different forms , best summarized as ( a ) single , with a single circlet of five petals , ( b ) double , with anything from 10 to 30 petals , ( c ) semi-double , with up to 15 petals but opening more like a single than a double , and ( d ) the old favourite quartered rose , with its many petals curled into four ‘ quarters ’ . |
| 12 | Extrapolations are , therefore , best seen as working hypotheses requiring confirmation by studies made on people . |
| 13 | For the purposes of my present argument , however , of even greater importance than the influence exercised by Les Annales is the fact that their approach is clearly governed by the idea — definitive of concessive holism — that individualist and holist explanations are best seen as answering to different interests , and therefore as contributing , at least to some extent , to independent projects . |
| 14 | We think the penal system is best seen as one highly complex system and the penal crisis as a single entity — albeit with multiplex causation and a variety of symptoms . |
| 15 | They will also clarify whether such difficulties are best seen as an exaggerated form of more normal occurrences , or as arising in a different way from the mistakes made by normal people . |
| 16 | Given the price inelasticity argument , changes in duties in the annual budget are probably best seen as motivated by revenue-raising considerations . |
| 17 | Note that while the first three kinds of information are relative strictly to the deictic centre , here specifically the social standing of the speaker , formality is perhaps best seen as involving a relation between all participant roles and situation ( but see Irvine , 1979 ; J. M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 19 | For first attempts the board is best positioned as above , but with practice the board can be manoeuvred once the rig is out of the water . |
| 20 | The objective of the Area Board chairmen in the 1950s is perhaps best interpreted as maximising the rate of growth of electricity sales consistent with covering book costs overall . |
| 21 | This inactivity is best interpreted as indicative of a powerlessness , but is perfectly " rational " once we recognise that the group is making certain calculations as to the likely response to their views and demands . |
| 22 | As originally constructed by a ninth cohort , probably of Legio VI , it contained only two or three suites of rooms together with some which are best interpreted as having a communal function.44 There was a small internal courtyard with an ornamental fountain and the old , first-century fort bath-house was rebuilt on a much larger scale . |
| 23 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 24 | Highly sugared foods are best avoided as cardohydrate reacts chemically with alcohol speeding up its entry into the blood . |
| 25 | Systematic differences between Catholics and Protestants which have been observed are probably best characterized as regional differences , since for example East and West Belfast Protestants each perceive the accents of the other group as distinctive ( L. Milroy 1980 ) . |
| 26 | Such internal order is highly significant , since it reinforces the point that objects are not best understood as merely subservient to social divisions . |
| 27 | A further concept was that of the Ka , which was inherent in gods , kings and men and which is perhaps best translated as meaning the life-force . |
| 28 | Mr Sekula is best remembered as vice-premier in the same government . |
| 29 | It is not certain that Warrington , best remembered as Philip in Rising Damp , actually swallowed the medicine , but his performances have since had great zest . |
| 30 | The mill is best remembered as Ayliffe 's Mill , the name of the family associated with it throughout its working life , up to the Second World War . |