Example sentences of "as [be] [adv] a [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The loss of equilibrium is seen as being both a root cause of the crisis when it occurs and its manifestation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |