Example sentences of "[be] presented as " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , the poet thus extolled has been presented as above all poetically ‘ a democrat ’ . |
| 2 | His buildings were never precious or timid , and avoided the excesses of some recent schemes which have been presented as wearing the conservation mantle . |
| 3 | THE Labour party 's fiscal policy has been presented as ‘ fair ’ on the basis of national averages . |
| 4 | It 's perhaps interesting that women newsreaders have n't been presented as ideal mothers instead — especially as male newsreaders are sort of father figures , greying at the temples , reliable and impartial in their authority . |
| 5 | Traditionally Japanese food has been presented as expensive , and reserved for special occasions . |
| 6 | The Farm seem to be this year 's Band You Love To Hate , but their version of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ? ’ is by no means the throwaway novelty it has been presented as being . |
| 7 | From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency . |
| 8 | Vivienne Hart has pointed out how many actions , of which she takes populism as her example , which have been presented as subversive of government , are in fact defensive of the constitution in general against the constitutionally subversive , or supposed constitutionally subversive actions of particular governments and politicians . |
| 9 | It has been presented as remote and ‘ surgical ’ — a technological war of such precision that only military targets are hit and all we experience is a tv screen demonstrating the spectacular nature of the equipment , and the helplessness of Third World enemies . |
| 10 | Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates . |
| 11 | Sufism in today 's Africa , with its saint worship and magical practices , has been presented as doomed in the path of modernisation : such an assessment is to be seriously questioned here . |
| 12 | He did not carry the gong with which he had been presented as player of the tournament but Fiji 's captain Waisale Serevi — the nation having defeated the district of Suva 26-0 in the final — is not an individual who requires a calling card . |
| 13 | The kids are presented as decent and thoughtful , and there 's an Arcadian absence of the stress and violence which some might look for in a class where the teacher swears and free-associates , and throws up and bunks off into the bargain . |
| 14 | Though Eliot refuses to treat the uneducated merely as ‘ savages ’ , his essential ideas about the indispensable contribution of religion to culture are presented as being derived from the study of a less complex model . |
| 15 | Whether these are presented as interesting old stories or as moralistic and relevant fables depends on the attitude of the head teacher . |
| 16 | These methods of payment are more likely to be accepted if they are requested right up front before you start to do business and if they are presented as being the only way you do business . |
| 17 | It is interesting to examine various superhuman beings and determine which of them are presented as inherently shy and fearful . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it is pertinent to observe that while academic studies at college and polytechnics are presented as being important because they enrich the student , the subjects which are acceptable for entry to a primary PGCE course are clearly defined . |
| 19 | For they are presented as holding between structures , or between a structure and the class struggle , and it is so far only an article of faith to suppose that they can be refined to a point where one can identify a specific connection such as that between an aspect of the peasant class and a particular form of capitalist state . |
| 20 | These models are presented as examples of what can be done with simple equations . |
| 21 | In this manner certain aspects , at least , of the process of permissive change are presented as having been positive and beneficial , in direct contrast to the view of the conservative-historians . |
| 22 | Data are presented as atlases and are also available as computerised output which can be requested in various ways , e.g. by area , element or groups of elements or specified ranges for an element . |
| 23 | Demographic data are presented as mean ( SD ) ; elsewhere data are quoted as mean ( SE ) unless otherwise stated . |
| 24 | Results are presented as means ( SD ) , or medians ( ranges ) when the distributions were skewed ( diabetes duration , urinary albumin excretion , fractional albumin clearance , plasma total and active renin , prorenin , and aldosterone concentrations , and the ratio of active renin to aldosterone concentration ) . |
| 25 | All of these , to repeat , although there is some uncertainty and inconsistency , are presented as answers to the question of the meaning or semantics of certain " if " statements , certainly including dependent nomic conditionals . |
| 26 | Similar arguments might be advanced with respect to the measures of economic deprivation , which are presented as items five and six in table 9.7 and are given extremely low weight in the assessment of GRE , compared with the multiple use of housing indicators and of measures of ethnic origin . |
| 27 | Horn had , in a different way , addressed similar issues in his work with ABC , using the 1980s routine of issuing singles in a variety of mixes not just to exploit the fans but also to expose the studio processes and calculations kept hidden when records are presented as ‘ finished ’ goods . |
| 28 | However , this line of argument still leaves unanswered the question why strikes are presented as they are , which brings us to the second of the points Hyman raised . |
| 29 | With a few minor amendments ( such as the deletion of paragraph numbers and cross-references to the relevant numbered paragraphs in earlier chapters ) they are presented as they appeared in the final report . |
| 30 | The right to buy policy and the alternative landlord scheme are presented as extensions of tenants ' choice , and for some this is undoubtedly the case . |