Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as [art] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its new pesticide proposals are regarded as the strictest in the world : " organic " and " biodynamic " farmers are to be seen as pioneers pointing to new chemical-free techniques for the rest of the agricultural community . |
| 2 | The hall at the bottom of the stairs was a tiny square , a door on one side opened to what had been designed as the best parlour , but was now converted to a waiting-room for the surgery , which was a lean-to structure at the back . |
| 3 | Regional councils are seen as the nearest equivalent . |
| 4 | A BIRKENHEAD apprentice car technician has been named as the best third year trainee by the Shell-owned nation-wide motoring centre chain , Superdrive . |
| 5 | Among students of small-town plans , linear settlements of this type have been seen as the commonest and the earliest form from which more complex plans evolved . |
| 6 | Their nursing bras are recognised as the best ! |
| 7 | Their nursing bras are recognised as the best ! |
| 8 | Their nursing bras are recognised as the best ! |
| 9 | Their nursing bras are recognised as the best ! |
| 10 | Their nursing bras are recognised as the best ! |
| 11 | She has been acclaimed as the greatest Canadian painter of the century , while her four books are said to have reached new heights of perception and understanding in the annals of Canadian literature . |
| 12 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 13 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 14 | Forsyth came to be regarded as the greatest Congregational theologian of his day . |
| 15 | Except in regions of very low rainfall April should be regarded as the safest month for sowing herbage seeds . |
| 16 | On October 9 , Smash Hits published what must be regarded as the strangest pop cover story of all time , an interview , conducted by the experienced Ian Cranna , with Morrissey and Pete Burns , and headlined ‘ The Very Odd Couple ’ . |
| 17 | Parental responsibility should be treated as the greatest and most important undertaking of human life , albeit the one potentially holding out the promise of the greatest happiness . |
| 18 | Taken all in all , though , it must be seen as the greatest of all the pending threats to present day life . |
| 19 | Pride causes us to want to be seen as the best , but we will often use the strategy of holding others back to make sure we stay there . |
| 20 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 21 | We have to remember in terms of timing that we started with the Gulf War and then moved into perhaps what will be seen as the worst recession since the '30s . |
| 22 | The editorial authorised final version is likely to be presented as the best ( most mature , fullest ) version . |
| 23 | It has been argued that the sexual division of labour between husband and wife may be interpreted as the best way of maximising the welfare of the working class family , and certainly the struggle for a family wage benefited working class families to the extent that it raised the wages of the male breadwinner . |
| 24 | Recent claims suggest that ‘ Diagnostic expert systems can be classed as the fastest growing functional area for expert system development today ’ , and that their application is making a significant contribution to efficient handling of complex system failure diagnosis . |
| 25 | This attitude is clear in a letter written by his old friend Benjamin Jowett shortly after his death : ‘ Henry Smith seems now to be recognised as the greatest English mathematician of the century . |
| 26 | ‘ Dalglish is the first ex-Liverpool manager to return to Anfield in over 70yearsscharge of a new Dalglish 's decision to abandon the club in the run-in to the 1990-91 season still rankles with many around Merseyside , but Souness insists that should not affect the warmth of his reception , saying : ‘ Kenny should be remembered as the greatest player this club has had and as a successful manager . |
| 27 | Since Raymond-Berengar was married to the been of Aragon and ruled that kingdom in his wife 's name , he might have taken the title of king , but refused to do so , saying that it was better to be known as the greatest count rather than the seventh greatest king . |
| 28 | All were answered at length in a meticulous hand and , from a closer study of these letters , much can be learned of this gardener who was to be acknowledged as the greatest of his time . |
| 29 | The basic syntagmatic lexical units of a sentence will be defined as the smallest parts which satisfy the following two criteria ; |
| 30 | Unfortunately , in the year 1880 , what came to be viewed as the greatest injustice ever to be perpetrated against deaf people occurred in September when the highly-misleading International Congress of Teachers of Deaf-Mutes was convened in Milan , Italy . |