Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour .
2 Er , to what extent the rift er , filled , I do n't think it can be wholly filled as a function of the recovery in er , the market for land .
3 So , the Glacial Control theory , while seeming to be mostly invalidated as a basic explanation , may come into its own as the best way to explain many of the details of present reef morphology .
4 Well , it could be loosely defined as the cell-wall material of plants but only loosely , because it also consists of substances associated with these cell walls .
5 His record will be little noted as the years and colleagues and companions have passed , but it is a proud record of willing service .
6 A polymer in very dilute solution can be effectively regarded as an isolated chain whose shape is governed by short and long range inter- and intra-molecular interactions .
7 Because even though this is a this is a linear network it can be effectively seen as a network effectively with a unit here and a unit here and maybe one weight .
8 Now , in a very real sense socialisation can only be properly understood as an aspect of all activity within human societies .
9 If the proposals for electoral reform across the European union had occurred , this debate would not be taking place , boundaries would not be the relevant issue and a common electoral system would mean that the citizens of the European community could be properly represented as a whole .
10 For an unusual case in which , on an interpretation of a bye-law , Monday , January 2 , was held to be properly treated as a Sunday for the purposes of supplying travellers , see Henderson v. Ross , 1928 J.C .
11 ‘ From my point of view , prescription charges have now reached such a level that they can be properly described as a health tax , ’ he said .
12 Clearly the MO of b 1 symmetry can have no contribution from any AO except O 2p x , and can be properly considered as a localized oxygen lone-pair orbital .
13 To live by ungrounded values , which even if organized as rationally as a science have only an inward coherence without external support , has come to be widely accepted as the quintessentially modern condition .
14 Physical sports would probably be widely accepted as an exception to restrictive rules on consent , but two points must be borne in mind .
15 A preoccupation , though a slowly waning one , with precedence and ceremonial still bulked very large : the safeguarding by the ambassador of the honour and standing of the monarch he represented continued for long to be widely seen as the most fundamental of all his duties .
16 Mrs Thatcher might now be widely regarded as an electoral liability ; but she had bounced back before from low opinion poll ratings and by-election reverses to win huge general election victories .
17 Gotti , whose sartorial taste had led him to be widely known as the " Dapper Don " , was charged by federal prosecutors with five murders , extortion , illegal gambling and obstruction of justice .
18 Bovet produced a curare-based compound that came to be widely used as a muscle relaxant during surgery on the chest and the abdomen .
19 The London Interbank Offered Rate ( LIBOR ) has come to be widely used as a benchmark rate , deposit and loan rates being set on margins related to LIBOR .
20 Alcohol can also lead to poor memory and an apparently confused state of mind which can then be wrongly interpreted as the onset of senile dementia .
21 Pat Keen , who has gone to Cornwall will be greatly missed as a teacher .
22 Indeed , hi-tech could be better understood as a set of principles distilled from a collection of material forms than as objects intended to embody prior principles .
23 However , they continue : But it may perhaps be better understood as an analytical consequence of the Garfinkelian theory that the fit between organization and phenomena , between rules and their applications , is not determined in advance , but rather is the result of an ad hoc and context-sensitive process , performed by speakers ( by the use of shared " methods " ) , in which the recognition of the social act and the construction of interpretation of sequences of such acts are two sides of the same creative ( but nonetheless organized and accountable ) process .
24 The problem involves conceptual and practical issues requiring research and consultation that the Board believes would be better conducted as a separate project .
25 It can be better seen as a necessary precondition for the continuing existence , not of an individual , as is the case with hunger , but of the species .
26 Statutory inquiries may be better seen as a form of mediation or consultation .
27 Very often , a one-to-one relationship can be better expressed as a single entity , with one of the entities forming attributes of the more significant entity .
28 ‘ But he has no regard for human life and will be better suited as a terrorist than a soldier . ’
29 Obviously , even in a statistically developed country it is an almost insurmountable task to achieve completeness in reporting spontaneous abortions , since an early miscarriage , particularly in the first weeks of pregnancy , can be easily mistaken as a late menses and some spontaneous abortions may not seem sufficient cause to some women for them to seek medical attention .
30 It can be easily imagined as a cosmic video recording tape .
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