Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 2 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 3 | Mkolongolo alleged in a press statement that the United States ambassador , Smith Hempstone , had been recalled as a result of " misleading information " given him by Muite [ see also p. 38136 ] . |
| 4 | Moreover , if the purchaser wishes to rationalise the workforce he runs the risk of becoming liable for automatically unfair dismissals where employees are dismissed as a result of the transfer of the business . |
| 5 | The meeting had originally been scheduled to start on July 1 , but had been delayed as a result of Sri Lanka 's announcement on June 24 that it would not participate because of India 's refusal to agree on the withdrawal of the Indian Peace Keeping Force ( IPKF ) from Sri Lanka by the latter 's deadline of July 29 [ see p. 36735 ] . |
| 6 | Final approval had been delayed as a result of a Spanish-UK disagreement on the rate of tax to be applied to Spanish and British sherry in the UK . |
| 7 | The ‘ laws ’ of the latter are altered as a consequence , and their validity as laws is challenged by their interaction with the uncertainties implicit in astrophysics . |
| 8 | Many of the meetings listed on that page will be over by the time this gets to you but the details are given as a way of providing a background of work in progress and ideas for future programmes for all the groups . |
| 9 | They are given as an indication of what can happen and a suggestion of some of the ways in which similar ideas might be explored by different children in different circumstances . |
| 10 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 11 | The conviction of Shinto , after a 20-month trial , marked the first occasion on which a court had ruled that the Recruit shares had been intended as a bribe . |
| 12 | Eddie made a harsh sound that could have been intended as a laugh but sounded more like a cry of pain . |
| 13 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 14 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 15 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 16 | Halfway through this advertisement , I started worrying about whether it might not have been intended as a joke . |
| 17 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 18 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |
| 19 | Then , his restoration had been intended as a counterbalance to Warwick 's influence in the north , but in 1471 the Nevilles had been replaced by Gloucester . |
| 20 | Then , his restoration had been intended as a counterbalance to Warwick 's influence in the north , but in 1471 the Nevilles had been replaced by Gloucester . |
| 21 | It should not be used to make good any cuts that have been sustained as a result of falling rolls , ratecapping , etc . |
| 22 | But interest payments on debt are treated as a cost of doing business , and so are deductible from profits before tax . |
| 23 | Gains are treated as a person 's ‘ top slice ’ of income and are accordingly taxed at : 20 per cent ( the new lower rate ) , 25 per cent ( basic rate ) , 40 per cent ( higher rate ) or a mixture of two rates , i.e. in instances where a gain , or gains , pushes part of an individual 's income into a higher rate bracket . |
| 24 | In the strong field case the inter-electronic effects are treated as a perturbation . |
| 25 | Part 1 deals with the fundamentals , and begins by explaining how polymer molecules may be treated as spring-bead chains in which the molecules are treated as a sequence of spring-like beads . |
| 26 | There are cooperatives in which the manager gets the same as the band members and the manager 's office expenses are treated as a band cost , along with the trucks , boats and recording . |
| 27 | Similarly , although the smallness of the samples of 16th , 17th , and 18th Century publications in need of repair means that conclusions about them must be treated with some caution , it is worth noting that if all pre-1800 items are treated as a group and the proportion of them allocated to each of Categories 3–5 calculated , their pattern of distribution ( ‘ Poor' 78% ; ‘ Bad ’ 18% ; ‘ Fragile ’ 7% ) comes close to matching that already established for all defective items . |
| 28 | The argument is nonsense because it fails to take into account the way women are treated as a matter of course . |
| 29 | First , April Ashley should have been recognized as a female . |
| 30 | In all , it seems that Leapor has , at last , been recognized as a poet worthy of serious consideration . |