Example sentences of "be [verb] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might well be stabilised as the main course and result in the construction of a new delta segment , until the gradient advantage of the distributaries over it was nullified by the extent of the segment . |
| 2 | At this time he was still a rank-and-file militant , but quickly , as the 1820s moved along , he came to be recognized as the outstanding trade-union leader in Lancashire in the textile industry . |
| 3 | Already in 1913 , as the Independent observed , ‘ gray hair has come to be recognized as the unforgivable witness of industrial imbecility . ’ |
| 4 | According to Indian reports Pakistan had objected to India 's demand that the Saltoro Range , running from NJ 9842 to the Shaksgam region of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir ceded to China , be recognized as the actual line of control . |
| 5 | If this notion of looking ahead in order to see behind is understood temporally , it can be recognized as the constitutive structure of narrative itself , which Genette describes as a series of ‘ déterminations rétrogrades ’ in that the action of a story is a function of its outcome ( 1969:94 ) . |
| 6 | The case of a force fit of pin to block can be recognized as the intersecting domain contains at least two pairs of intersecting surfaces ( see Figure 3.11 ) . |
| 7 | This process , of devising solutions for particular needs , should be recognized as the natural course of development in all engineering situations ( as opposed to a science-based approach where general principles would be extracted ) . |
| 8 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 9 | But the climate cycles are too strong to be explained as the direct effect of the astronomical changes alone . |
| 10 | The English which is to be formulated as the major instrument for achieving the more general policy goals turns out to consist of systematic inculcation of linguistic practices , firmly aligned to a very specific sense of Englishness . |
| 11 | And that would be calculated as the total amount dissolved in the ocean divided by its rate either of addition or removal so if we 're assuming steady state the two will be the same , whichever is easiest to ma measure and that would normally be expressed in years |
| 12 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords , in the case of Pepper v Hart . |
| 13 | The question of whether the cash equivalent of providing a benefit to an employee should be calculated as the marginal cost or average cost of providing the benefit is currently under consideration by the House of Lords in the case of Pepper v Hart . |
| 14 | An adult 's constant blaming of another can also be heard as the angry protest of the deprived internal infant within that adult body , and when it turns to whining , may also serve to express the yearning and become an attempt to control the whereabouts of the other . |
| 15 | Three kinds of post-market institutions have become important ; they can be distinguished as the modern patronal , the intermediate and the governmental . |
| 16 | In Ophioprium cervicornis the two types of papillae are distributed in a regular way ; the smaller papillae are situated on the proximal part of the jaw and can be regarded as the oral papillae . |
| 17 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 18 | In the main , the holders of cultural capital can be regarded as the dominated fraction of the dominant class . |
| 19 | But the twists and turns of Currie 's political career are simply a graphic illustration of the fact the SDLP can not be regarded as the Labour Party in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Inadequate thinking , as I hope to have shown in my section on mental development , can be regarded as the inadequate control of mental attention , and , like inadequate action , fails through misdirection , disinhibition , and unco-ordination . |
| 21 | Here , then , we have the most obvious , the most important , opportunity for bridge-building , so obvious and important in fact that , in my view — and here I echo a judgment of Stephen Clark 's which in times past I fiercely denied — an individual 's or organisation 's position on ‘ meat-eating ’ , so-called , should be regarded as the decisive litmus test of their moral credibility . |
| 22 | Which , in each case , should be regarded as the relevant contract in order for the transaction as a whole to satisfy the internationality require-ment ? |
| 23 | They are more plausible when taken as responses to a question about dependent conditionals which in fact has more claim to be regarded as the principal one . |
| 24 | Should nation-states be regarded as the principal actors in the global political system ? |
| 25 | Produced by a cast of mandarins drawn mainly from academe , the new recipe proceeds from a basic assumption : that international economic competition must be regarded as the principal successor to the Cold War in motivating federal support of science . |
| 26 | However , probably the K-type can be regarded as the principal type . |
| 27 | The chartered company continued to be regarded as the best type of organization for carrying on overseas trade , but a grant to an individual proprietor began to be seen as the best way to set up a new colony to which settlers would come to cultivate the land . |
| 28 | Many databases include terms from controlled indexing languages and also support searching on the text of the record , thus offering what might be regarded as the best of both worlds . |
| 29 | Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto . |
| 30 | Nationalism may also contain racial elements in so far as particular nations may be regarded as deriving from specific racial stocks ; and biologically defined communities may be regarded as the prime source of cultural characteristics . |