Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [verb] as [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I was once deceived as to the value of counterpoint .
2 An office which is assiduous about publication and publicity , but which is often seen as outside the dialogues of current architectural concern in the USA , deserves a more judicious appraisal then it has received , here or elsewhere .
3 ‘ The new syllabus is required because marketing is highly dynamic subject which is now regarded as of key importance to many disciplines other than advertising and sales .
4 It has been suggested that early alarms were ignored but I would like to emphasize that we are greatly curtailed as to actions a public body can take based only on hearsay and rumour .
5 But we 're still perplexed as to how the accident could have happened and we 're still looking for any motive for murder or suicide . ’
6 We were completely baffled as to why there should be these differences , and in particular why the preferred directions of the on-type directionally selective ganglion cells should fall into three groups .
7 As has been made clear in Chapters 6 and 9 , no one is really agreed as to how advertising works ; or how , and by what research means , to demonstrate that it has worked .
8 Black-clad , a little spidery , they are so mince as to be minuscule .
9 If the acquirer 's solicitors are to prepare the agreement , it is very important that they are fully informed as to the acquirer 's aims and concerns about the acquisition and its assessment of its bargaining position and that they discuss the draft with the acquirer before it is released to the seller .
10 They were so designed as to be easily folded up , enabling the car to be thoroughly cleaned .
11 That bronze scale pans and lead weights were found as grave goods indicates that they were perhaps regarded as in some way central to life .
12 It is often pondered as to who was or is Henley 's ‘ best ’ golfer , assuming it is not the record holder .
13 But even if magnetic fields could confine the wind , the hot gas pressure would be expected to build until it was episodically released as in a pressure cooker .
14 Cooke recalled how , like everyone else , he was utterly baffled as to how the pollsters could have got it all so wrong — until , a few days later , he found himself in a train sitting opposite a Republican county chairman .
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