Example sentences of "being [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The RSDLP should be reorganized as a federal party , with the Bund being recognized as the sole representative of Jewish workers and the party programme promising ‘ personal cultural autonomy ’ ( that is , all Jewish workers , regardless of where they lived in the empire , would be members of a national Jewish association , responsible for all Jewish educational and cultural affairs ) . |
| 2 | Steve Young threw three touchdown passes , including two to Jerry Rice , while Joe Montana , back in uniform for the first time in two years , stayed on the sidelines after being listed as the 49ers ' third-choice quarterback . |
| 3 | By extension , the term clause may be applied to both ( or all ) members of the sentence , the leading member being distinguished as the main , head or principal clause from the other(s) as sub- , subordinate or dependant clause(s) . |
| 4 | It is this expertise of the managers which justifies their being treated as the brain of the company , formulating corporate policy to further the ends of the enterprise . |
| 5 | Many of the American neo-Lamarckians argued that evolution exhibited both adaptive and non-adaptive trends , the latter being explained as the unfolding of trends built into the very constitution of each group at its origin . |
| 6 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 7 | The most common offences for both sexes are crimes against property , with shoplifting being regarded as the ‘ typical ’ female offence ( although adolescent males also indulge in this particular form of crime in significantly high numbers ) . |
| 8 | This resulted in Finvarra often being regarded as the King of the Underworld and his court as the Company of the Dead . |
| 9 | Nearly 1,000 of the world 's 9,700 bird species are threatened with extinction , with the destruction of habitats being regarded as the single most serious threat to their survival ; 43 per cent of the threatened birds live in tropical forests , for example . |
| 10 | I , being regarded as the principal guest , was presented with the greatest delicacy , which appeared to be a part of the breast . |
| 11 | The 56-acre former Navy mine depot was given local nature reserve status after a fight to prevent it being developed as the site of 600-inmate prison . |
| 12 | A federal plan to finance the cleaning up of toxic waste — known as Superfund — was begun ten years ago with 1,200 out of the US 's 40,000 sites being designated as the most dangerous . |
| 13 | ‘ the rights to which he would be entitled if he were the holder of the share , except that he shall not , before being registered as the holder of the share , be entitled in respect of it to attend or vote at any general meeting of the company or at a separate meeting of the holders of any class of shares in the company . ’ |
| 14 | John Miller , the son of a Jamaican father and English mother , aroused interest by being mooted as the first black player to represent England . |
| 15 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 16 | What I 've done these interviews knowing about your subject , I do n't have to agree my council 's policy , but I and I understand how people feel upset about X , so that 's trying to get the message across , you know people are upset , you can understand they 're upset , but you 're not actually compromising yourself or , because you 're being interviewed as the council spokesman , you 're not compromising the position of the council . |
| 17 | Flotation is still not out of the picture , with 1994 being forecast as the big year . |
| 18 | The internationalism of architecture particularly interested him , for as well as being considered as the founder of the Institute of Architects , he served for twenty-four years as its Honorary Secretary for Foreign Correspondence . |
| 19 | ‘ I propose therefore that the Recorder be asked to address the people , he being considered as the mouth of the City ’ . ' |
| 20 | Well , anything that you can do there , erm in in the immediate future would obviously be helpful , to support our case for being considered as the er the er European supplier , erm , and likewise with Italy , Spain , and France , not withstanding that at the moment they do n't do a great deal of business , well Spain does a great deal of business , but I do n't suppose is in a position to do much in in the way of technical support , erm , right , |
| 21 | In more homogenous countries than Italy and Belgium , proportional representation does not prevent absolute majorities being won as the record of Fianna Fail in Ireland , of Norwegian and Swedish socialists , of both Labour and Nationalists in Malta and of the British Liberal Democrats ' sister party in Portugal prove . |
| 22 | The bond is being recommended as the means to provide funds for a variety of personal needs ; these include retirement provision , school fees , and repayment of debt or mortgages . |
| 23 | Should you just want one large fish as a pet then provide as large an aquarium as is possible , with a 36″x15″x15″ being recommended as the smallest . |
| 24 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 25 | They are being adopted as the BGS standard map-plotting packages , and provide a powerful , geologist-oriented tool Other software developments include a digital data index that allows users to query the availability of sample data in an area of their choice . |
| 26 | The Government 's insistence that the Channel tunnel rail link be privately-financed is being seen as the first stage in a longer term plan to privatise the entire British Rail network . |
| 27 | Mergers , especially between banks serving the same area , are being seen as the swiftest route to big cost savings ; these , in turn , free up capital . |
| 28 | EC trade analysts said last night that M Delors was probably happy to raise the temperature of the dispute , to minimise expectations for his Washington mission , which until yesterday was being seen as the last chance to save the five-year round of Gatt talks . |
| 29 | A 3-0 thrashing suffered by Villa at Coventry on Saturday is now being seen as the turning point in their Championship drive . |
| 30 | Part of the reason for governments ' ‘ averted gaze ’ has , of course , been the wish to avoid being seen as the obvious source of subsidy and support for struggling enterprises . |