Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repertoires of schemata are built up as an organism adapts to its environment . |
| 2 | Workfare was on the committee 's agenda but the committee has now been wound up and it is thought workfare has been pushed back as an idea requiring long-term consideration rather than implementation in the near future . |
| 3 | George Sanders was out of the running now , having been hauled in as an enemy spy , but I 'd be interested in knowing who precisely had tipped the Feds off to his brokerage for state secrets in the suburbs . |
| 4 | The windows which had been nailed up as an anti-escape measure were thick with steam , and water was pouring down the panes . |
| 5 | The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired . |
| 6 | The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help . |
| 7 | The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature . |
| 8 | The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science . |
| 9 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
| 10 | Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along . |
| 11 | The operation can be carried out as an outpatient procedure in a clinic , hospital or in some specially-equipped GP surgeries . |
| 12 | A school that , though equipped with a sixth form , did not have good A level results could be picked out as an inefficient school . |
| 13 | The naming from the dock of John Cameron ( alias Sergeant Mor ) , a vindictive Jacobite soldier of fortune , can not be written off as an act of desperation by James Stewart , who was promptly marked out as accessory once the actual murder occurred in Appin . |
| 14 | Being treed by the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar might be written off as an occupational hazard ; being trapped — on an assignment officially aborted-by an undead amateur is unforgivable . |
| 15 | Computing needs to be built in as an integral part of the Horticultural Training programme , so that future students will leave having acquired skills in handling word-processing , database , spreadsheet and design programs for correspondence , reports , record management , financial planning , and graphic techniques . |
| 16 | I am told that with good binoculars ( presumably × 12 or more ) it can be made out as an aura of soft light surrounding the cluster , but I have had no success myself . |
| 17 | When you use these numbers — you will need to use a credit card with Forte — your booking will be logged up as an AEA purchase . ’ |
| 18 | I was privileged to be invited along as an observer at the latest meeting at which the question of the small company audit was discussed . |
| 19 | For this reason , many commercial relational DBMS enable links to be set up as an option and therefore they can be set up beforehand and executed each time they are required . |
| 20 | ‘ If he were to institute proceedings for infringement before the patent for the invention was sealed , the procedural requirement of the proviso would not be satisfied but a statement of claim could not be struck out as disclosing no cause of action although it might be liable to be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 21 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 22 | If he tries to start a second action , it will be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 23 | Therefore a carbonaceous asteroid , although unlikely , can not be ruled out as an explanation of the Tunguska event . |
| 24 | Her mental assurances did n't seem to offer much comfort , and she certainly did n't think she wanted to be put down as an experience . |
| 25 | She would be allowed in as an adjunct , and kept from doing further harm . |
| 26 | Even the quest for fire , an element of nature taken for granted in the twentieth century , Whitaker felt could be held up as an artifact of wonder through the medium of Doctor Who . |
| 27 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 28 | Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land . |
| 29 | ( The solution is to sign up as an individual ) . |
| 30 | Former Tory Cabinet Minister , leading constitutional expert and friend of the Royal family Lord St John of Fawsley said last night the announcement ‘ must mean a change in the role of the Monarchy because they have for this century , and indeed the whole of the last one , been held up as an example of model family rectitude . |