Example sentences of "be [verb] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patterson had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning in December 1991 after a scandal involving tax waivers for an oil company [ see pp. 38670-71 ] . |
| 2 | Three of them are adults , but rumours that they may be Bosnian soldiers have been dismissed as irrelevent . |
| 3 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 4 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 5 | On Sept. 9 it was announced that the only Romanian Cabinet official of Hungarian nationality , Deputy Minister of Culture Andro Horvath , had been dismissed as part of an efficiency drive . |
| 6 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 7 | Jagan , 75 , once a hardline Stalinist , had first led the PPP to an election victory in 1953 , in the pre-independence period , but had been dismissed as Leader of the House of Assembly , when the UK government suspended the Constitution in the face of perceived " communist subversion " [ see pp. 13152 ; 13177 ; 13239 ; 13523 ] . |
| 8 | Thousands of the films and publications have been incinerated as part of a year long clampdown on the trade . |
| 9 | Existing ESA payments are calculated as compensation for not intensifying production . |
| 10 | As a result , five banks — Midland , Security Pacific National , Chemical Bank , Barclays Bank and Mitsubishi Finance Corporation — have been joined as respondents with the council . |
| 11 | Hamburgers and disco biscuits are undercover terms for the rave drug Ecstasy , while royalty is cocaine and poor quality drugs are dismissed as flea powder . |
| 12 | For example , many people would classify nuns as holy and sincere , while Hell 's Angels are dismissed as troublemakers , drug-takers and wild drunks . |
| 13 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 14 | If the terms and conditions are altered as part of Newco 's rationalisation of the business , employees may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal . |
| 15 | The rates of interventions are given as percentages — that is , per 100 deliveries . |
| 16 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 17 | Demonstrations of Prestel are given as part of the information skills courses and pupils have the opportunity to try out the system . |
| 18 | Twitchit 's actual substitutes , Rose and Beef , are given as substitutes for Dorning . |
| 19 | Now assume that age-specific birth rates are given as age 1 = 850 , age 2 = 715 , zero otherwise . |
| 20 | Results are given as means of six rats per group with standard errors . |
| 21 | Infants who were studied after unexplained sudden infant death were all born at term and their ages are given as weeks of postnatal life . |
| 22 | The results are given as Table 4 . |
| 23 | The full texts of eight relocation policies from named companies are given as examples of good practice in Appendix 1 . |
| 24 | Married women are treated as dependents by the income tax system , whatever their actual economic resources and social situation . |
| 25 | So , while the Western world has seen a major shift , for a variety of reasons , in preferred manager 's styles away from autocracy towards a belief in more participative , reduced dependency styles in which individuals are treated as adults and empowered to act , there are other parts of the world where this would be considered inappropriate because dominance and dependency are effective styles . |
| 26 | To the extent that income has been retained , payments out are treated as income . |
| 27 | The dead are treated as enemies , says Freud . |
| 28 | The significance of s13 is that matters of description are treated as conditions and not as innominate terms , although this would not have been the case in non-consumer sales had s15A(1) ( b ) of the Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 been implemented . |
| 29 | The acrylics are treated as watercolours . |
| 30 | Actions and objects are treated as signs that in certain situations form meaningful structures — myths . |