Example sentences of "as [being] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some organisations , whether registered with the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies or not , were easily recognisable and criticised as being jointly managed by shipowners and therefore employer dominated . |
| 2 | Findings based on very limited evidence can not be regarded as being firmly established and need to be verified by means of additional observations and cases . |
| 3 | There is a saying , although it is accepted by smokers as being mildly humorous , ‘ Dope will get you through times of no money , but money wo n't get you through times of no dope . ’ |
| 4 | Younger people are more likely to identify health as being physically active or as the absence of symptoms ( i.e. never being ill ) than older people . |
| 5 | For example , 32 per cent of the pre-retirement age group see health as being physically fit compared with 10 per cent of the over-65 age group . |
| 6 | With increased age there is a significant decrease in the percentage describing health as being physically fit from 13 per cent ( 65 — 74 ) to 3 per cent ( aged 85 + ) . |
| 7 | Reich thought that a third possibility was to live out the genital impulses with a partner , and that this was the healthiest outcome , for then people functioned well in work and social life as well as being physically healthier . |
| 8 | It will give members pleasure to hear that Ann McMillan 's children 's classes received particular mention ( many of Ann 's ‘ children ’ are now in the Teens Display Team or the National Display Team ) ; her work with the triple-handicapped ( those who are blind and deaf as well as being physically handicapped ) was also specially acknowledged . |
| 9 | Multiple deprivation is therefore treated as being strictly additive , which is questionable . |
| 10 | treat the information as being strictly private and confidential and shall take all precautions to maintain its status as such ; |
| 11 | treat the information as being strictly private and confidential and shall take all precautions to maintain its status as such ; |
| 12 | Indeed , Ulpian puts the case of a seller of a female slave who knowingly allows the buyer to believe that she is a virgin when she is not ( D.19.1.11.5 ) , a defect which is treated as being strictly liable so that the buyer can return the slave . |
| 13 | So , as well as being probably infinite in length , the list of conditional observation statements was probably rather vague in content . |
| 14 | I still recognize that poem as being utterly my own . |
| 15 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |
| 16 | For example , he refers to Dozmary Pool as being perpetually drained by piskies with leaking shells . |
| 17 | The traditional Keynesian approach has tended to regard unemployment and inflation as being inversely related , as is depicted by the shape of the Phillips curve . |
| 18 | Photography is extremely expensive and should only be undertaken if it is necessary — which is not the same as being marginally useful or pleasant . |
| 19 | ‘ As good a gift as being easily forgotten , ’ said Rhodri Parry drily . |
| 20 | So Charles and his family lived in the southernmost house and shop on the east side of the street , a fact confirmed by a deed of 1783 which defined the property in question as being immediately to the north of a stable , killing house and other buildings owned by Daniel Rossiter , clothier . |
| 21 | I recall it as being immediately after Wilson came into office . |
| 22 | Now sheep are animals that we tend to regard as being pretty stupid and most of the time they 're timid creatures who will run away at the slightest sound or sight of something strange in their midst . |
| 23 | Also , at the other end of the scale , why has US unionism traditionally shown a more restricted interest in the political sphere , regarding collective bargaining as being overwhelmingly its major business ? |
| 24 | The attitudes of colleagues were reported as being overwhelmingly good , although a few people mentioned a certain lack of understanding , saying that their colleagues tended to forget or deny that they were disabled , which could create difficulties . |
| 25 | These two chapters should , therefore , be seen as being theoretically and empirically linked . |
| 26 | This is to read Althusser 's distinction between science and ideology as being finally not one between equivalent categories . |
| 27 | The same kind of criticism is sometimes levelled at newer , vocationally orientated courses in higher education ( such as secretarial studies , catering or nursing ) which are perceived , however inaccurately , as being largely a matter of skill acquisition . |
| 28 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 29 | He sees what is nowadays called , I think , ‘ inter-personal relations ’ as being largely predicated on the need for people to convince themselves that they have a wholeness and a separateness and an individuality and a defined self , and they do this by trying to define themselves against those other shifting , evanescent erm personalities that they call their friends , enemies , wives , children and so on . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , particularly in sitcoms , older people are crudely portrayed as being either enfeebled , vague and forgetful or , at the other extreme , cantankerous battle axes . |