Example sentences of "be [verb] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of welfare officers , the rarity of home leave , the concept of visits and letter-writing as a privilege which could be withdrawn as a punishment , and the denial of permission to keep family photographs , were all indications of an absence of serious interest in helping to maintain a prisoner 's contacts with the outside world . |
| 2 | These , and other changes , all contributed to the doubling of productivity within those six years , and he is optimistic that it could be trebled as a result of the fast , electronic and computer assisted information that is now available . |
| 3 | It was not a right to be enjoyed as a source of revenue or worldly glory : it was to be guarded as a gift from the past , representing an eternal principle of order . |
| 4 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 5 | Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements . |
| 6 | A hay net can be improvised as a seat belt , especially if there is nothing else ( no seats either ) . |
| 7 | Second , the union of two people who have the same biological sex , but one of whom is an operated transsexual with a female gender identity should be recognized as a marriage . |
| 8 | It was beyond possibility that he could be recognized as a policeman , yet he had not even been given a coquettish smile . |
| 9 | It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor . |
| 10 | Information retrieval should be recognized as a skill within its own right , though it forms an integral part of wider study skills . |
| 11 | What has been seen as an aspect of the Roman catholic intellectual opposition to divorce in Chapter 5 can also be recognized as a feature of the defence of catholic schools too : the opposition contains an interpretation of the moral nature of contemporary society and of what happens to catholics who are not to some degree protected from it . |
| 12 | A graduate will be recognized as a licentiate member and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience . |
| 13 | On this approach , a shape can be recognized as a whole without the constituent parts being recognized as such ( a part is represented in a radically different way if it is seen as a Gestalt in its own right ) . |
| 14 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 15 | Such consultation was undertaken through a Great Council , from which evolved what was to be recognized as a parlement or Parliament . |
| 16 | Third , it pointed to the necessity for critical preventive work to be recognized as a priority . |
| 17 | Ageing has to be recognized as a process , a gradual transition , rather than a once-for-all event . |
| 18 | To be drunk will be recognized as a symptom not of manliness but of extreme unhappiness , and since only on rare occasion do we want to broadcast the fact of our unhappiness to the world , the lager lout , the whisky soak , the sherry drunk will become a rarer and rarer phenomenon , until finally withering away . |
| 19 | In time , Alexander will be recognized as a pioneer worker in establishing the conscious control of the use of the self . |
| 20 | He was ambitious to be recognized as a physiologist as successful as his father . |
| 21 | Search at the police station should not be undertaken as a matter of routine but only where justified under Lindley v. Rutter . |
| 22 | Personal Interviews will often be on a one to one basis but can also be undertaken as a group exercise . |
| 23 | John Lewis , the man who had complained about the effect of financial cuts on safety at Lowermoor , was the only person to be sacked as a result of the incident . |
| 24 | Instead , it could more satisfactorily be explained as a continuum , with recall directly dependent on the kind of encoding that is carried out . |
| 25 | This ‘ withdrawal ’ — which can be explained as a collective , dignified attempt not to have any truck with the enterprise except on one 's own terms — which an outsider can describe as apathy or schizoid withdrawal — has far-reaching political consequences . |
| 26 | Class-linked youth subcultures , such as those of mods , teds and rockers , could be explained as a crossing of both tendencies . |
| 27 | The early part of the present century was quiet in volcanic terms , and the warming might be explained as a result of dust clearing from the stratosphere , while the recent cooling trend coincides with increasing volcanic activity . |
| 28 | then this could be explained as a result of the autonomy of the state from the requirements of capitalism . |
| 29 | The discrepancy between these statements is probably to be explained as a consequence of the very thing we are discussing — the obscurity of the early , providential superego-precursors in the individual and their later submergence in the punitive , Oedipal superego , a complication which does not , of course , occur in the cultural evolution of the superego . |
| 30 | This is challenged by Hart who suggests that , far from simply being an example of the law enforcing a moral principle — for example the sanctity of human life — it may on the other hand ‘ perfectly well be explained as a piece of paternalism , designed to protect individuals against themselves ’ . |