Example sentences of "is [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Higher Rate Taxpayers , when the Bond matures or is surrendered the profit for tax purposes is calculated as the final proceeds less the original investment . |
| 2 | The block grant from central government is calculated as the difference between the GRP and what the authority plans to spend , so long as this expenditure is below a government assessment of what the local authority should spend . |
| 3 | Total change is calculated as the sum of natural change and net international migration and excludes other changes such as movements of Armed Forces , the effects of changes in the definition of population , and other statistical adjustments . |
| 4 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 5 | Whereas in mechanics the moment is calculated as the product of a force and the distance of its application from a fulcrum , in statistics the moment is computed from the product of the weight percentage in a given size class and the number of class grades from the origin of the curve . |
| 6 | The loss from taking up the unsubscribed shares is calculated as the difference between the market price on the last day of the offer and the subscription price , where n is equal to the number of shares taken up by the underwriters , P , i , m ; is the market price on the last day of the offer , P , i , s ; is the subscription price . |
| 7 | Disengagement is explained as the process by which older people gradually relinquish roles and activity within their society . |
| 8 | ( 1 ) Before any third party is registered as the transferee of shares he will be asked to execute a deed of adherence binding him to the terms of the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 9 | Bedford Park is regarded as the first Garden Suburb in England , and thus has an international importance , while Shaw is one of the most important architects of the Victorian period , best known as the designer of the old New Scotland Yard building on the London Embankment . |
| 10 | Nuon Chia was educated in Thailand , and is regarded as the main ideologue of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 11 | And via a now explicit association with anality , especially sodomy , homosexuality becomes a paradigm of sterility and solipsism , while heterosexuality is regarded as the way back to a dynamic , creative encounter with the other : in the woman the man embraces ‘ all that is not himself ’ and from that embrace ‘ comes every new action ’ ( quoted in Delany , Nightmare , 79 ) . |
| 12 | In the mass media , on foreign visits , and in Parliament , the Prime Minister is regarded as the authoritative spokesman for Cabinet policy . |
| 13 | is regarded as the most expensive grain in the world , and is n't really a rice at all but a type of grass . |
| 14 | Explaining social behaviour — such as such selflessness — in terms of biology ( especially genes ) is a hallmark of sociobiology , of which Dr Wilson is regarded as the father . |
| 15 | Holsteins , Jerseys , Ayrshires and Brown Swiss — the cream of the North American dairy cow population — compete for top honours at what is regarded as the world 's leading dairy show . |
| 16 | One reason why Mr Smith is regarded as the front-runner is that he has already secured the support of key trade union leaders , including John Edmonds of the GMB general workers ' union and Gavin Laird of the engineers . |
| 17 | Just down the road is the fantastic club , ‘ Future Pace ’ , which is regarded as the best disco on the island , with its ritzy piano bar and restaurant on the roof terrace . |
| 18 | Flaubert 's use of style indirect libre in order to voice the consciousness of his protagonists , is regarded as the forerunner of the stream of consciousness technique popularized by Joyce and other twentieth-century modernists . |
| 19 | With its large population and massive dependence on foreign exchange from oil exports Nigeria is regarded as the most vulnerable of the OPEC countries and has constantly battled to increase its production quota above the 1.3 million barrels per day laid down by OPEC . |
| 20 | It is regarded as the finest of the Cambridge college bridges ; an achievement to which the architect may have been spurred by the old St. John 's bridge , a masterpiece by Wren , barely 20 yards downstream . |
| 21 | In layman 's language , this means that every reaction of the patient is regarded as the right reaction . |
| 22 | The actual implementation of an innovation is regarded as the most important part of the study . |
| 23 | This ambiguity of sex may have its origin in whether the Moon is regarded as the wife of the always-male Sun or the husband of the always-female Earth . |
| 24 | Family planning is regarded as the norm by the majority of people in developed countries , and the threat of overpopulation in developing countries is perceived by a thinking minority in many countries as casting a shadow over the future of mankind . |
| 25 | The fact that ahi sā is regarded as the law of the human species does not mean that it is an easy matter to practise it . |
| 26 | For f— 's sake , Morrissey is nothing more than an enormously overrated writer of terminally dull pop songs and now for some obscure reason is regarded as the new rock messiah by every spotty , snot-nosed sixth former in Britain , as well as most of the English music press who should know better . |
| 27 | Scottish salmon is regarded as the finest in the world . |
| 28 | The TV is regarded as the next generation of home sets , with a flat screen that can be hung on the wall like a picture . |
| 29 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 30 | He is regarded as the best English player in the league and is set to become the burgeoning sport 's first pin-up boy . |