Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Since the nineteenth century it has been seen as the cause and ‘ truth ’ of our being . |
| 62 | Although many of their fans are too young to realise , United have generally been seen as the town 's two-bit team , little more than camels in the eyes of the Dens Park faithful . |
| 63 | This has put pressure on the service sector to provide services that can perform tasks that have hitherto been seen as the province of being provided in the home ( e.g. more eating out in restaurants and more holidays — often two per year — because of increased disposable income ) . |
| 64 | While previously residential care had been seen as the solution for many young children , it was now considered as part of the problem . |
| 65 | For the last decade has been one in which short-term cost-cutting has been seen as the answer to any commercial or governmental problem . |
| 66 | Industrialization had been seen as the key to international strength , and industrial development had been pushed forward regardless of rural and urban poverty , environmental damage and social and economic dislocation . |
| 67 | We all like to think we stand out from the crowd and , in the past , the face has been seen as the key to unlocking our identity . |
| 68 | Utopian ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of Marxist theory . |
| 69 | Ruling class ideology has therefore been seen as the basis of functionalist theory . |
| 70 | Thus he writes , ‘ Basic statements are accepted as the result of a decision or agreement , and to that extent they are conventions ’ , and again , |
| 71 | Care must be taken over the signs of relationships , specifying which category has been selected as the base for comparison ( see section 8.2 ) . |
| 72 | Wilson , already the official ball of the US Open , has been selected as the ball to be used in this summer 's Olympic Games in Spain and the 1992 Federation Cup in Germany . |
| 73 | For Jesus to have been accepted as the Messiah , he must necessarily have been prepared to wield the liberator 's sword . |
| 74 | Having been accepted as the burgh nominee , one still had to obtain a majority of votes in the District Election . |
| 75 | The letters have , until recently , invariably been accepted as the name of God in three languages . |
| 76 | There is only one explanation of what has hitherto been accepted as the basis of the criminal law and that is that there are certain standards of behaviour or moral principles which society requires to be observed , and the breach of them is an offence not merely against the person who is injured but against society as a whole . |
| 77 | British government has been accepted as the product of the collected wisdom of many generations , indeed of many centuries . |
| 78 | It is true that baroque had long been adopted as the style for state capitols in the United States , but the Beaux-Arts style in all its overblown pomposity was to reflect this new sense of greatness . |
| 79 | In April 1962 he wrote ‘ Blowin' in the Wind ’ , and within a short space of time he had been adopted as the spokesman of the civil-rights movement . |
| 80 | Technopol Eryri Cyf/Snowdonia Technopole Ltd has been adopted as the name of a holding company to formalise the partnership . |
| 81 | For this reason , the poppy has been adopted as the flower of remembrance , and a shower of poppies , representing British and Commonwealth fighting men who have died since 1914 , is released at the annual service of remembrance in the Albert Hall , London . |
| 82 | In rural areas of both growth and decline , selected or key settlement policies have been adopted as the planning ‘ solution ’ to a number of social and economic problems ( Cloke 1979 ) . |
| 83 | Whistling had been adopted as the language of the world . |
| 84 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 85 | The Pony Club 's Manual of Horsemanship has also been adopted as the training manual for Horse Rangers . |
| 86 | As infancy progresses , the ultradian peaks at night are missed as the effect of the daily ( 24-hour ) rhythm becomes dominant . |
| 87 | Since the Meiji period the farming community had been trumpeted as the guardian of the so-called ‘ traditional ’ Japanese virtues , the embodiment of all that was best in the Japanese family system . |
| 88 | You receive a daily allowance of £40 , tax-free , and if you 're hospitalised as the result of an accident , these benefits are doubled to £80 each day . |
| 89 | £40 per day if you 're hospitalised as the result of illness . |
| 90 | £80 per day if you 're hospitalised as the result of an accident . |