Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It has also been examined as a potential animal feed . |
2 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
3 | Each a study in itself , with titles like ‘ No two feathers ’ , ‘ Butterflyman ’ , and ‘ Angel and the Dreamer ’ , they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music , wind harps and synthesisers . |
4 | Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure . |
5 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
6 | The enforcement of Amhara supremacy over other nationalities and the absence of a democratic machinery for instituting change are given as the main reasons why the Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) started an armed struggle in 1975 . |
7 | ( Pound had studied some of the same French poets , notably Laforgue and Rimbaud , but he had profited by them in a quite different way from Eliot , and he was averse to the central thrust of the symboliste endeavour , to which indeed the imagist or imagiste movement which he had sponsored had been intended as a challenging alternative . ) |
8 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
9 | It is just different from what it would be had Gloriana been intended as a Grand Opera in the A ida sense . |
10 | The offensive appeared , initially , to have been intended as a tactical show of strength designed to secure a better bargaining position in peace talks , due to resume on July 15 but " indefinitely suspended " by the government [ see p. 38283 ] . |
11 | Further , if the same persons are entitled as trustees ‘ to different deposits ’ under different trusts , they are treated as a separate and distinct body with respect to each trust . |
12 | Married women who provide security for their husband 's debts are treated as a special protected class of sureties . |
13 | FOREIGN this points to between 1 and 30 other files which , with the module header , are treated as a single entity within LIFESPAN , but when read out are expanded into the original file set . |
14 | When the module is entered into LIFESPAN , the files in the FOREIGN-SET are held with the module header file and are treated as a single module . |
15 | However , " inter-connected bodies corporate " are treated as a single person . |
16 | An alternative possibility is that these three versions of a word are treated as the same ( which would happen if the visual word-recognition system operates at a relatively abstract level ) . |
17 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
18 | Whilst ‘ the elderly ’ have long been recognized as a distinct social category , ever-stricter stratification by age has emerged since industrialization ( Thomas 1976 ; Quadragno 1982 ) . |
19 | The privatization programme has been recognized as a major break with the mixed economy consensus . |
20 | Hepatitis B was formerly referred to as ‘ serum hepatitis ’ because percutaneous exposure to contaminated blood has long been recognized as a major mode of transmission ; and cases of hepatitis B from blood transfusion , needlesticks , and sharing contaminated needles among drug abusers have been well documented . |
21 | On April 10 the opposition Movement for Development and Democracy ( MDD ) , which had never been recognized as a political party , had stated that more than 40 people , including the MDD leader Goukouni Guët , had been arrested in February in neighbouring Nigeria and extradited to Chad at the request of the Chadian government . |
22 | Barred galaxies have been recognized as a separate class of galaxies since the 1920s , and in 1964 de Vaucouleurs suggested that the Milky Way contains a bar to explain the observed noncircular motions of the atomic gas at the centre . |
23 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
24 | Overflow soiling and constipation Constipation has been recognized as a common cause of encopresis ( Levine 1975 ; 1982 ) . |
25 | While both the philosophical and sociological responses to Mannheim 's work was critical and did not exactly embrace the sociology of knowledge as an exciting new project , it has been recognized as a promising new area for development . |
26 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
27 | Fighting as ‘ Little Chocolate ’ , his campaign in England culminated in his winning the world bantamweight title by stopping Englishman Nunc Wallace in eighteen rounds of a contest at the Pelican Club , London , in 1890 ( though he had informally been recognized as the premier bantamweight for some years before ) . |
28 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
29 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
30 | indeed , he , he 's been revered as an intellectual player , erm , he , a thinking player , a shining example , and of course , that , that shows up in , in statistics when you read about what he 's achieved , and you think , you know , fifty six caps for Northern Ireland . |