Example sentences of "what [is] [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She said the heroin comes in by what 's known as the Balkans route . |
| 2 | The whole of what 's known as the Corbet block was completely destroyed . |
| 3 | The US has been trying for a decade to clinch the deal , not least because it would give its nuclear forces control of what is seen as the strategically vital Pacific zone and a new set of options if its Philippine naval and air bases are threatened . |
| 4 | Over in Water Ross the deer are just part of what is seen as the larger problem of who is in charge , and who makes decisions about wild places . |
| 5 | This literature , whilst being mindful of the ordinary business cycle of boom and slump , growth and recession , is especially mindful and critical of what is seen as the increasing coincidence between the five-yearly election cycle and the rhythm of the economy . |
| 6 | Holsteins , Jerseys , Ayrshires and Brown Swiss — the cream of the North American dairy cow population — compete for top honours at what is regarded as the world 's leading dairy show . |
| 7 | Traditionally , the answer has been found in the study of the two main factors which were at issue in the years leading up to what is regarded as the moment of outbreak of war , the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine by King Philip VI of France in May 1337 . |
| 8 | The two theories to be discussed next are of more recent date and , essentially , represent attempts to modify Leibniz 's and Kant 's theories , respectively , in an effort to salvage what is regarded as the sound core of these theories by stripping them of their philosophically undesirable features . |
| 9 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 10 | There are , no doubt , many reasons , historical and intellectual , for this distinctive disjointedness between methods and what is regarded as the substance of sociology itself . |
| 11 | More importantly , they show how , even in what is regarded as the most basic type of communication , the context that is relevant to the disambiguation of deixis should be seen not as a physical setting that is fixed and given once and for all , but rather as a cognitive space that is actively constructed by participants in the course of the interaction . |
| 12 | And what I would like to ask in in this environmental age that we live in , for a benefit to the people on the A sixty one , for a vehicle every four point eight seconds instead of every three point five seconds , using your own figures , how can you justify and quantify the cost of the environmental damage that will be done to what is regarded as the finest visual attractive side of Harrogate . |
| 13 | Secondly I think the other thing is , is a change in what is regarded as the content of history . |
| 14 | A recurring theme within the Report is the inadequacy of any utilitarian or vocational form of education to the task of reconciling educational policy with what is perceived as the national interest . |
| 15 | Such specialist rehabilitation work is , however , demanding and stressful , and it is generally much easier to recruit professionals to work in what is perceived as the glamorous ‘ acute ’ sector of the mental health service than in the long-term support services . |
| 16 | The close relationship between police chiefs and elected mayors in American cities makes it difficult for the former not to curry favour with what is perceived as the ‘ majority view ’ within his ( sic ) jurisdiction … . |
| 17 | However , what is perceived as the belligerent , aggressive , lively , gregarious character of the Afro-Caribbean pupil , can not be easily ignored by the teachers , and presents a constant reminder of the nature of the school . |
| 18 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
| 19 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 20 | No one who reads the three solid essays in what is described as the catalogue of the exhibition ( though it is n't quite that ) can think that ‘ Barnumising ’ in any way describes Pound 's ardent response to painting and sculpture , photography and architecture , first in London 1908–1920 , then in Paris 1920–1925 , and thereafter in Italy . |
| 21 | Although there has been a slight fall in the numbers of people in local authority care in the past 10 years , there has been a remarkable increase in the numbers of people cared for in what is described as the private sector — in the homes run as nursing or residential care homes . |
| 22 | Survival International calculates that 100,000 people have been killed in Guatemala in the last 25 years and over a million forced to flee what is described as the brutality of the US-supported government there . |
| 23 | China is to set up what is described as the world 's biggest nature reserve , covering 200,000 square kilometres in the Qangtang grasslands of northern Tibet . |
| 24 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 25 | Saatchi has sold exclusively through a dealer called Larry Gagosian , well known in New York as a ruthless specialist in what is known as the secondary market . |
| 26 | As an employer , you need to pay NI contributions for those employees aged 16 or over , who earn at or above what is known as the lower earnings limit , which stands at £52 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 27 | Employees ' NI contributions are paid on earnings up to and including what is known as the upper earnings limit , which is £390 a week from 6th April 1991 . |
| 28 | The Retail Consortium , which lobbied the government hard for the abolition of what is known as the ‘ no discrimination ’ clause in agreements between banks and shopkeepers , was delighted . |
| 29 | A YEAR after the European Community 's central-bank governors produced what is known as the Delors report on economic and monetary union , the European Commission has at last written its own credo on EMU . |
| 30 | The cut fell on 145 , one over par , and consequently 63 of the original field of 83 made it under what is known as the ‘ 10-stroke rule ’ — anyone who is within 10 shots of the leader , on the theoretical grounds that it is still possible to win from there . |