Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups formed as a result of a parent company , such as Matsushita Electric , spinning off its own operating divisions to form separate companies within the same field to act as suppliers , distributors and even retailers . |
| 2 | It is realistic when one considers the number of new operations developed as a consequence of medical research . |
| 3 | Thrift disguised as Reason speciously suggests than an excess of Fluid Foundation on one 's face , unlike a poisoned sausage , will cause no harm . |
| 4 | LGB opposition to extensions of social legislation was increased due to the reluctance of the Treasury to provide what the Board regarded as adequate staffing . |
| 5 | The schoolmaster 's appointment was at times treated as a sinecure for the vicar of Evenley , a Magdalen living . |
| 6 | Part of the growth of road transport reflected the political tolerance of what unions and rail pressure groups regarded as unfair competition . |
| 7 | In the case of land , statutory provisions may give priority to a later contract registered as a land charge even if entered into with knowledge of an earlier , unregistered transaction , but it seems that this affects only proprietary rights and does not bar an action in tort based on interference with the earlier contract . |
| 8 | Most were disposed of at the Investigation Officer stage , though an interesting innovation in 1989 , which is to be extended nationally , is local conciliation by experienced solicitors designated as Local Conciliation Officers . |
| 9 | The fact that this extra testing can produce extra diagnoses implies that a proportion of those cases diagnosed as NGU would turn out to be trichomonal if only the organism were adequately looked for . |
| 10 | In 1759 some of the greatest Portuguese nobles whom Pombal regarded as threats to his position , the Duke of Aveiro , the Marquis of Tavora , the Marquis of Alorna , were accused of conspiring against the king , tortured and in some cases broken on the wheel . |
| 11 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 12 | The student demonstrations against corruption occurred because of illegalities exposed as a result of his high standards of probity . |
| 13 | Reserve team versus Coventry last Wednesday postponed — Tinkler and Weatherall comebacks after injury/illness delayed as a result . |
| 14 | One night in 1962 Kurdish rebels entered a Kirkuk cinema disguised as policemen and silently surrounded an officer known to be torturing opponents of the government . |
| 15 | This shows at least 520 territorial groups recognized as administrative districts ( volosti ) , which in some cases corresponded to true consanguineous clans , but in many other cases were merely ‘ clans ’ of convenience , rather arbitrarily designated by the Russian authorities . |
| 16 | A mushroom disguised as an onion bhaji with flaking batter was a mouthwatering morsel , but not really a dish in its own right , more an interlude before the chicken à la British Airways , both accompanied by more Hellmans relatives . |
| 17 | Errors of principle — A purchase treated as a sale ; a receipt treated as a payment ; returns in treated as returns out ; an asset treated as an expense . |
| 18 | Terah 's three sons are named , and their home-town given as Ur of the Chaldeans . |
| 19 | These procedures are the responsibility of a user designated as the Offline Operator , who does not , however , require any knowledge of LIFESPAN in order to fulfil the requirements of the Offline System . |
| 20 | It should be read by the LIFESPAN Manager and a user designated as the Hard Copy Manager . |
| 21 | Its operation is entirely controlled by a user designated as the ‘ Hard Copy Manager ’ , who should have access to the LIFESPAN process account password . |
| 22 | And it is not unknown for members of a group to manipulate a drama to further their real-life victimisation of the class ‘ scapegoat ’ — so that it is not a drama experience at all but a vicious first-order experience disguised as drama . |
| 23 | The Conservatives turned to protection disguised as imperial preference in 1933 , and adopted a series of state measures to aid the reduction and consolidation of the declining heavy industries . |
| 24 | He was convicted of breaking a 1986 law forbidding unauthorized contacts between Israeli citizens and groups designated as ‘ terrorist ’ by the Israeli authorities . |
| 25 | My mum looked as if she was in the middle of being kidnapped . |
| 26 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 27 | Their silks and skin dissolved as if gobbled by a cloud of ravenous moths . |
| 28 | All too rarely is the building considered as a whole : the shopfront is applied without a thought as to whether it clashes or blends in colour , proportion , materials or design with the building above . |
| 29 | The recession deepened as the 1870s proceeded , and by 1879 Skerne Iron Works had called in the liquidator . |
| 30 | Not many yards away , dunes and hillocks looked as if they had been dumped at random , each one rising about sixty feet above the plain . |