Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 2 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 3 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 4 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 5 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 6 | The SFA requirements relating to notifications , consents or instructions to or from indirect customers who are treated as the firm 's customers ( see page 25 above ) , and customer agreements with them , can be discharged by reference to the intermediary ; this , however , does not apply where the intermediary acts for only one indirect customer . |
| 7 | In each node of the bottom layer , the inputs are treated as the address of a cell . |
| 8 | Thus the shareholders in the company are treated as the electorate , and the directors are regarded as the legislature . |
| 9 | Practices such as witchcraft are treated as the outcome of structural features , filtered through the unconscious , and manifested in uncontrolled expressions of fear , guilt or frustration . |
| 10 | Sex is clearly an essential determinant of the relationship called marriage , because it is and always has been recognized as the union of man and woman . |
| 11 | The Venetian ambassador complained that though the republic had always been treated as the equal of the kingdoms of Europe he had been offered a place which did not fully reflect this . |
| 12 | There is no doubt that instead of treating the sea as the giver of life to mankind , as it certainly is , it has for far too long been treated as the world 's sewer . |
| 13 | Much of women 's rural work , such as caring for poultry , milking and craftwork within the home is not included , as men are registered as the family breadwinners , as farmers , and women as housewives . |
| 14 | Several of the dubious cases of jurists such as Ulpian have been explained as the product of compilatorial abbreviation . |
| 15 | He had also been registered as the owner of a number of import-export companies . |
| 16 | Observation of one of these signs — cyclical changes in cervical mucus — has been developed as the basis of a method capable of anticipating ovulation . |
| 17 | The scheme was innovatory in providing housing at controlled rents in a converted building on a spectacular riverside site , something which previously had been regarded as the preserve of affluent owner occupiers . |
| 18 | While 8-track cassette recorders are n't new , in some cases the amount of signal isolation between tracks is at best poor , and so they have n't really been regarded as the way to upgrade . |
| 19 | Assessment has traditionally been regarded as the responsibility of psychiatrists , but in recent years the role of non-medically qualified personnel has been examined . |
| 20 | The pride in the job which has often been regarded as the hallmark of the rural worker was therefore not always derived from sheer altruism . |
| 21 | The continuous return to the same subject to wring out every ounce of meaning from it , has long been regarded as the hallmark of the true professional . |
| 22 | Coming on the heels of the Ashby Report , which had lacked conviction in Tutorials and had recommended that the reference to them in grant regulations be dropped , the Board 's decision seemed to be another blow to what had traditionally been regarded as the apex of WEA work . |
| 23 | Many things that a decade ago would have been regarded as the province exclusively of the statutory sector now fall into the voluntary sector . |
| 24 | This has traditionally been regarded as the province of the management accountant , responsible for collecting data on cost and revenue forecasts and assessing the likely net pay-offs before submitting qualifying proposals to the appropriate decision-making body . |
| 25 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 26 | The parallel between this theory and Matthew 's more general model of mammalian evolution is obvious enough — but it is also significant that throughout the previous century Asia had been regarded as the source from which successive waves of higher races had invaded Europe . |
| 27 | William Latimer , who became Chamberlain in 1371 , was a figure of rather more political consequence and seems to have been regarded as the leader of the group around the king . |
| 28 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 29 | Although it is from 1 to 3 km below sea level off Java , along most of the coast of Sumatra parts of it are exposed as the Mentawai and other islands ( Figs 3.9 and 3.14 ) . |
| 30 | Antinuclear antibodies with the homogeneous pattern ( ANA-H ) and smooth muscle antibodies with antiactin specificity ( SMA-AA ) are regarded as the serum markers of type-1 autoimmune chronic hepatitis . |