Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Commander is best left separate from the tank so that he can be painted up as an individual model and put in or left out of the hatch as desired .
2 ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player .
3 Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner .
4 It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users .
5 If I make a few constructive points , it will be looked on as a Liverpudlian poking his nose in .
6 The tale of how an astute Cornish furze-cutter came to be founder of one of the great landed families of Cornwall , with one of the County 's most famed stately homes , could be looked on as an ideal example of Thatcherite-style enterprise and self-help .
7 The absence of CD4 binding by the MicroGeneSys gp160 vaccine may therefore be looked on as an added safety feature .
8 The naive inductivist account of science , which I will outline in the following sections , can be looked on as an attempt to formalize this popular picture of science .
9 For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language .
10 But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues .
11 In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office .
12 Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along .
13 Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , .
14 Construction could be caried out as a joint venture with the new state-owned company set up to operate all existing nuclear plant .
15 Articles 100 and 235 of the Treaty of Rome provide a mechanism whereby the amassment of power by the Community may be carried on as a continuous process .
16 This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition .
17 Dr McGowan , the Chief Medical Officer , reported to the County Secretary that there was no immediate danger to the public health but called as a matter of urgency for a resolution to the problem , as lead is a cumulative poison : ‘ The continual exposure of people to such high levels of lead is a definite health hazard and remedies to have this matter rectified should be carried out as a matter of urgency ’ .
18 The report Educational Opportunities for All ( ILEA 1985 ) remarks upon the enthusiasm expressed by London teachers for this method of working and recommends that an evaluation of support teaching be carried out as a matter of urgency .
19 Finally , it could be carried out as a continuation of the R & D activities of a firm acquired abroad .
20 I thought Windows would allow printing to be carried out as a full background job , but I experience quite long delays while Word and Excel send their output to the Print Manager .
21 The operation can be carried out as an outpatient procedure in a clinic , hospital or in some specially-equipped GP surgeries .
22 A school that , though equipped with a sixth form , did not have good A level results could be picked out as an inefficient school .
23 In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure .
24 Part of the fever of the times ; if the Black Panther Huey Newton , posing with rifle and spear , could be written up as a theoretical genius , and his partner , Bobby Seale , interpreted as a tactical wizard , then how much a symbol was Ali — the first to tap and manifest glinting black pride , to dispute with vigour erosive self-laceration .
25 You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health .
26 ‘ Nothing that ca n't be written off as a momentary aberration between a man and a woman .
27 Thus , ( 43 ) has the same ambiguity as ( 39 ) between predicate qualifier , giving the " cosmetic " version , and this new pattern of interpretation , which must correspond to the " unacquainted " meaning , and the distinction between the two senses of sentences like ( 39 ) should not be written off as a mere matter of " nuances of meaning " , but instead shows one sequence of surface syntax answering to two different intensional patterns .
28 Where there does exist a genuine public expression of concern about the way the police operate this can not just be dismissed as a matter of misunderstanding or be written off as the foolish ramblings of that police ‘ folk devil ’ the ‘ loony left ’ , who would dismantle the system for their own political ends .
29 The naming from the dock of John Cameron ( alias Sergeant Mor ) , a vindictive Jacobite soldier of fortune , can not be written off as an act of desperation by James Stewart , who was promptly marked out as accessory once the actual murder occurred in Appin .
30 Being treed by the great wonder-rabbi Shmuel ben Issachar might be written off as an occupational hazard ; being trapped — on an assignment officially aborted-by an undead amateur is unforgivable .
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