Example sentences of "not [be] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gesture can not be regarded as the expression of an individual , as his or her creation ( because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture , belonging to nobody else ) , nor can it even be regarded as that person 's instrument ; on the contrary , it is gestures that use us as their instruments , as their bearers and incarnations . |
| 2 | But the twists and turns of Currie 's political career are simply a graphic illustration of the fact the SDLP can not be regarded as the Labour Party in Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | And just as the Spirit can not be equated with any property in man , equally it can not be regarded as the stuff of which the world is made , the comprehensive life principle which integrates the universe , as the Stoics maintained — a view which , through pagan philosophical influence , crept into the inter-testamental books of the Apocrypha . |
| 4 | There is no reason why a policeman should not be regarded as the victim of this conduct . |
| 5 | And yet the Euripidean spirit can not be regarded as the ultimate cause of tragedy 's downfall . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , in view of the 30% incidence of restenosis with this technique , it should not be regarded as the revascularisation mode of first choice in cardiac arrest survivors . |
| 7 | The only character in the tale who can not be regarded as the target figure in any way is Alison , the woman , who sails through " " upright " " , laughing and unscathed . |
| 8 | ( b ) Intermediate examination Where it is reasonable to expect someone to inspect the goods before they are used , the manufacturer may not be regarded as the cause of the damage . |
| 9 | From this point of view , societal characteristics can not be explained as the product of actors ' choices , since these choices are themselves the product of socialisation . |
| 10 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 11 | A man such as Sir Guy fitzAlan would not be acting as the King 's messenger if Stephen was not confident of Father 's support . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , adjudication must not be understood as the arbitrary exercise of the subjective will of the judge , nor a resolution in terms of social policy nor ‘ the common purpose or interest ’ of civil association . |
| 13 | She had the majority support of her staff , but decided to leave , to ensure that the position of her husband Jose Azeredo Perdigao would not be jeopardised as the Foundation 's director . |
| 14 | However , perhaps this increase should not be seen as the emergence of local politics , but should more properly be viewed as their re-emergence . |
| 15 | The American writer Leslie Farber has a great deal to say about ‘ the life of suicide ’ , which he insists , ‘ must not be seen as the situation or state of mind which leads to the act , but that situation in which the act-as-possibility , quite apart from whether it eventually occurs or not , has a life of its own . ’ |
| 16 | Anthropological analysis need not be seen as the attempt to discover the truth about primitive societies , but instead as the attempt to ‘ translate ’ ( or transform ) the utterances from one discursive context to another . |
| 17 | The Chairman of the Chambre Nationale , Yannick Guilloux , said the charges brought against Britain must not be seen as the stand of one European country against another but a bid to harmonise tax regulation , at as low a rate as possible , in order to protect the art market within the EC as a whole . |
| 18 | Each of these has changed substantially in the post-war period , but the central argument of this chapter is that such changes can not be seen as the result only of changes within the UK . |
| 19 | Privatization should not be seen as the signal for the government to withdrawn from the economy entirely . |
| 20 | Four thought Christianity should not be seen as the prevailing ethic . |
| 21 | Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) . |
| 22 | An EC statement issued on July 20 , following a ruling from the EC Arbitration Commission , declared that the new federation formed by Serbia and Montenegro " can not be accepted as the sole successor " to former Yugoslavia , and that the EC would " oppose the participation of Yugoslavia in international bodies " . |
| 23 | These are then sub-divided by sorting the sherds in each group into rim sherds ( from the top of the pot ) , base sherds ( from the bottom of the pot ) , fragments of handles , and body sherds ( sherds from any other part of the pot that can not be recognized as the base , rim or handle ) . |
| 24 | That is , liberty should not be viewed as the absence of compulsion but as the empowerment of all members of society to make the best of themselves . |
| 25 | These answers should not be viewed as the ‘ right answer ’ and we would suggest that wherever possible the students are encouraged to use their own words and find their own examples as this will enhance their learning immeasurably . |
| 26 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 27 | Bodies or groups of human beings may have legally recognized rights and duties , which can not be treated as the rights and duties of the members . |
| 28 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 29 | And the mundane could not be reconstituted as the unknown . |
| 30 | Endoscopic removal should not be attempted as the risk of inadvertently puncturing a package is high . |