Example sentences of "as [be] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The same kind of criticism is sometimes levelled at newer , vocationally orientated courses in higher education ( such as secretarial studies , catering or nursing ) which are perceived , however inaccurately , as being largely a matter of skill acquisition .
2 At the same time , though , I can see Mother 's side of it , at least on this one point , for she has n't considered herself as being just a housekeeper all these years , she 's felt mistress of the place , and she 's going to miss it . ’
3 Yeah I 've got ta find a question who condemned the war between the sexes as being just a joke ?
4 They regard the article as being primarily an attack on the Prime Minister , and one which is improper almost to the point of being constitutional .
5 When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space .
6 People of his generation do tend to regard £1000 as being rather a lot of money , although the rest of us realise that it will hardly keep your motor car in petrol for long .
7 The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation .
8 But the fact that the crusaders — and western monarchs in the twelfth century — did not abandon their style of cavalry strongly suggests that the mounted knight was still a very effective weapon , as well as being increasingly the symbol of social status .
9 In ordinary language , this node expresses the situation in which readers judge their own satisfaction as being solely dependent on their own processing efforts ; and they judge the author 's satisfaction as being purely a matter of the authorial effort of writing .
10 He argued against those who saw the world economy as being merely a summation of national economies , and instead he posited that the world economy is a system with its own particular equilibrium .
11 If the aim of judicial review is seen as being only the protection of individuals ( whether people or organizations ) , this would suggest and justify standing rules which require the applicant to show that he , she or it is specially affected by what has been done or decided .
12 Previously , where planning permission was required for work to a listed building , the application was treated as being simultaneously an application for listed building consent , unless the works involved demolition of part or the whole , in which case a separate application was needed .
13 Franca was amazed at her sudden power to develop vivid visual images of her mental states , a power which she had never exercised before , and which she thought of , not without satisfaction , as being perhaps a symptom of incipient madness .
14 Another way of looking at the process is to regard the member of the pair of particles that falls into the black hole — ; the antiparticle , say — as being really a particle that is traveling backward in time Thus , the antiparticle falling into the black hole can be regarded as a particle coming out of the black hole but traveling backward in time .
15 Do you see chemistry as being almost the centre of science ?
16 In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones .
17 In this respect we believe that the next generation of GIS will be more akin to DSS than to sophisticated mapping packages , as is presently the case .
18 These figures suggest that where items are available at all times ( as in the case of items housed in the Main Building , which are accessible whenever the Library is open to the public ) and can be delivered relatively quickly ( as is again the case with items from the Main Building ) readers will tend not to make advance reservations , but where access is restricted ( as in the case of material from the Annexe and from the Advocates ' Library , both of which have restricted hours of service ) or where delivery may take some time ( as is particularly the case with Annexe materials ) advance orders will more frequently be placed .
19 Each different form requires the mastery of its specific skills if , as is surely the object of the enterprise , the product is to be available and to communicate to all who may be interested .
20 Instead he believes priorities have to be drawn up and stuck to even if that means low-priority areas are ignored altogether as is already the case in some parts of the country .
21 But , as is generally the case , governments think along far shorter time scales than energy planners .
22 The implications of a more general dispersal of prestige items , as is generally the case outside Kent , is of a less developed society more dependent on primitive valuables moving horizontally and cementing relationships between major and minor allies .
23 However , as is generally the case with most benefits hard won from the state , once implemented the recipients unite in defence of it when it appears to be under threat .
24 As is invariably the case , the chorus 's singing was first-rate and so was the orchestral playing .
25 The natural organic content is thus very low , the moisture reservoir non-existent and , as is invariably the case in such conditions , there is a chronic shortage of potash .
26 As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers .
27 These figures suggest that where items are available at all times ( as in the case of items housed in the Main Building , which are accessible whenever the Library is open to the public ) and can be delivered relatively quickly ( as is again the case with items from the Main Building ) readers will tend not to make advance reservations , but where access is restricted ( as in the case of material from the Annexe and from the Advocates ' Library , both of which have restricted hours of service ) or where delivery may take some time ( as is particularly the case with Annexe materials ) advance orders will more frequently be placed .
28 It applies equally to what would once have been obtaining by false pretences , if , as is here the case , the requirements of section 1(1) are also satisfied .
29 It is extremely improbable where , as is normally the case , that majority is constituted by a single party which , ex hypothesi , has been successful under the existing voting system and therefore lacks any great incentive to change it .
30 What has in effect been done with the Form Program is that , instead of the whole garment shape being entered as one program as is normally the case , the shape has been divided into sections that coincide with the stitch pattern lengths to be knitted with each worked out as a separate program .
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