Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criminals and other trouble-makers are referred to widely as ‘ gougers ’ : ‘ there are basically two types of people . |
| 2 | ‘ Many of these proposals have been looked at together as being inter-related . |
| 3 | The normal forms of glaciated mountains are accepted by all as due to ice erosion and no one would seriously suggest that such features as corries , glacial troughs and overdeepened basins are still being formed . |
| 4 | Of course , aspects of social life have been measured for almost as long as history . |
| 5 | And the same from we 'd been selling from there as well . |
| 6 | This is particularly so in the last dance , when the Bride and Groom are watched by all as they solemnly walk together through the doorway into their room . |
| 7 | Although , today , justices of the peace are thought of primarily as being judicial bodies , they nevertheless retain certain administrative functions ( the best known of which is the issuing of liquor licences ) which , however , are a pale shadow of their former role . |
| 8 | The hut had been cared for inside as well as out and it was being used . |
| 9 | In the event of damage caused during a riot , it is essential that such claims are dealt with immediately as it is possible to obtain a recovery against the local Police authority . |
| 10 | It is most probably that the inhabitants had heard of this religion which had spread over Europe and had been known as early as the late Roman period in Britain . |
| 11 | The faint murmur of voices could be heard from inside as Jennifer talked to the nurse . |
| 12 | This scale , which can be looked upon either as mode 4 of a major scale ( eg. G major starting from C , or a C major scale with a ♯4th ) , or the major scale that is found a 5th higher than the root of the chord that you want to play it against . |
| 13 | The latter can be thought of either as something like a pointer moving across a scale to a mark labelled " here " , or ultimately as a conscious observer looking at such a pointer and saying " By Jove , the electron 's here " on this occasion . |
| 14 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
| 15 | Very often the consumer media tend to be thought of together as all one group , but this leads all too soon to the sort of comments outlined in the introduction to this chapter . |
| 16 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |
| 17 | It clearly precludes the collection of data for its own sake , or just in case it might turn out to be useful ; and it requires that information shall be kept for only as long as it remains relevant . |
| 18 | The whole operation sounds too neat to be true — but it seems to be working at least as well as other last-ditch cancer treatments . |
| 19 | The [ draft ] FRS requires such instruments to be accounted for wholly as a liability . |
| 20 | This reasoning seems plausible , though it is also possible that policies which , as it turned out , led to non-profitable growth , might at least is some cases be accounted for simply as failed experiments in increasing profitability . |
| 21 | This letter and such terms being referred to herein as ‘ this Agreement ’ . |
| 22 | Ironically , he was to be hanged for broadcasts most of which were known at once as comically improbable in their boasts of German victory . |
| 23 | He is referred to there as ‘ Thomas Didymus ’ or ‘ Thomas called Didymus ’ . |
| 24 | They had also survived what was referred to locally as the ‘ Old Economic Policy ’ , or War Communism , which was universally disliked , even by the poorest . |
| 25 | In the course of the trial Hayman was referred to only as ‘ a senior civil servant ’ , but his name was leaked by the police , surfacing in Private Eye . |
| 26 | All subservient reaction was forgotten at once as Nessie yielded to more primitive instincts and rushed to the car to see her youngest son . |
| 27 | A great time was had by all as you can read in ‘ David 's Diary ’ . |
| 28 | English keyboard music had a tradition at least as old , was produced at least as copiously , and was later to influence through Sweelinck the German organ school from Samuel Scheidt onward . |
| 29 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |
| 30 | She was grabbed from behind as she walked along a footpath near Monks Way in Milton Keynes . |