Example sentences of "[verb] as [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10.8.12 In respect of licences granted under intellectual property rights the licensor shall , at the request and coat of the licensee , execute and do all such deeds , acts matters and thins as are requisite for securing an official registration of such licenses . |
| 2 | ( The ‘ cultural homogeneity ’ of the workforce is also stressed as being important . ) |
| 3 | Mexico is often depicted as being characterised by ‘ charrismo ’ , the phenomenon of trade unions being controlled by the state , in order to keep wages down in the service of capital accumulation and accelerated economic growth . |
| 4 | Perhaps this position can best be tested by taking an extreme example — a crime which it would seem to be impossible to accept as being within the ‘ normal ’ range of human motivations : sexual abuse of children . |
| 5 | There we we when we went to Italy last year it was er what I would describe as being fairly warm |
| 6 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 7 | Poorly organised as were the French medical services , demand far outstripped supply almost throughout the war , but several times at Verdun the system threatened to break down altogether . |
| 8 | Yet there was no weeping and wailing as is the usual Sinhalese custom . |
| 9 | Speaking at the launch of the Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1992–93 RFU president Danie Serfontein warned that this could happen if the union feels that it can not put an end to illegal inducements , which he described as being ‘ widespread ’ . |
| 10 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 11 | It 's what Flaubert described as being ‘ brother in God to everything that lives , from the giraffe and the crocodile to man . |
| 12 | The key element of the budget was a package of measures worth A$4,500 million which federal Treasurer John Dawkins described as being designed to provide the economy with a " strong but temporary stimulus " over the next two years . |
| 13 | They were guilty if they did an act which was unlawful and which " all sober and reasonable people " would recognise as being dangerous . |
| 14 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 15 | The entire Cabinet resigned as was customary prior to the independence day anniversary on July 28 . |
| 16 | There has as been pointed out already , been no independent enquiry , no royal commission , no report from a select committee of the House of Commons and no pressure from outside Parliament . |
| 17 | The same is true , for that matter , of the phenomenon of intelligence — for which no one has as yet-been able to produce an adequate definition . |
| 18 | This welcome volume , edited as was Volume II by Sheriff Irvine Smith , completes the project of the Stair Society of publishing a selection of the Justiciary Cases 1624–50 , the inception of which was signalised by the publication in 1953 of the first volume under the editorship of Sheriff Stair A. Gillon . |
| 19 | For example , cubes resting one on another ( see Figure 2.14 ) are given by : This contact state can be simplified as being : A single zone state specified by two zeros and one non-zero with one excursion state . |
| 20 | Regretfully , this weekend has had to be cancelled as is now living in Malaysia and is unable to fulfil her commitment . |
| 21 | It is emitted by electrons and positrons as they are guided by magnets on curved paths round synchrotrons , or storage rings as are often used today ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 305 ) . |
| 22 | Each church needs to examine the traditions which inevitably grow up around its worship to see what should be discarded as being a barrier to the one seeking God . |
| 23 | In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service . |
| 24 | Instead , after varying lengths of time , they were discharged as being ‘ in remission ’ , i.e. their schizophrenia was thought to be still present , but not actually revealing itself in their behaviour . |
| 25 | The human being , therefore , can be visualized as being composed of at least four different levels or planes : the physical plane , the emotional plane , the mental plane and the spiritual plane — all of which are interdependent and interpenetrating . |
| 26 | As applied to water , they are visualized as being particular polywater formations which have the power to impress their pattern on the surrounding water polymers . |
| 27 | The homoeopathic potencies , being structured water polymers , can be visualized as being more powerful than the random water polymers present in the body fluids . |
| 28 | Such wide-reaching results are remarkably reminiscent of the drug pictures of many of the homoeopathic remedies , which are visualized as being the keys which can unlock various metabolic blocks . |
| 29 | The acute situation , however , can be visualized as being one in which repeated assaults are being inflicted , requiring repeated administration of the appropriate remedy to re-balance the system . |
| 30 | Arrangements for committal proceedings should be reviewed , and short term imprisonment discouraged as being expensive and of little reformative value . |