Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [be] [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of effort also needs to be devoted to enhancing the social standing of the cleaners because they can so easily be regarded as inferior by other staff irrespective of their skills . |
| 2 | However , the Rome Convention can not properly be treated as determinative of the construction of article 5(1) . |
| 3 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 4 | It can not necessarily be considered as isotropic because if highly draw the chains become oriented and the elastic and other ( for example optical ) properties differ between different directions . |
| 5 | In the absence of an experiment , a statistical effect of one variable on another can not just be accepted as causal at face value . |
| 6 | Or was there a wider , opportunistic yet deeply felt and unreflective vision of ‘ American leadership of the Free World ’ , a vision intoxicating in its sweep but one which could not possibly be presented as compatible with the UN terms ostensibly legitimating the entire operation . |
| 7 | We have already seen how the courts have used the Wednesbury sense of unreasonableness to invalidate exercises of discretionary power which could not realistically be regarded as absurd , or manifestly irrational . |
| 8 | Yet his team could not fairly be described as negative . |
| 9 | Interest-group activity could just about be tolerated as long as it was moderate and operated within the suffocating rules of the political game . |
| 10 | The skip-sequential processing of sparsely updated file areas can not now be regarded as straightforward . |
| 11 | There is a good case for excluding these economically inactive people since they can not really be described as capable and available for full-time work . |
| 12 | But if the worst really came to the worst in Japan , the resulting mess could not simply be welcomed as come-uppance . |
| 13 | Such " mainstream " marriages , though frequent in the sample can not however be regarded as typical ; the variety at this unstable moment in the century was so great . |
| 14 | But it was not the same as any of them , and could not seriously be dismissed as anti-black or anti-woman by anyone who took the trouble to find out the facts ; after all , as FAMILY was fond of pointing out , one of its founders was a woman of Pakistani origin ! |
| 15 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 16 | Now the Board of Practice and Procedure has a budget and w which we have already negotiated , and we 're hoping to be able to hold our presbytery clerks conference but there is nothing in the budget that could possibly cope with these additional conferences and these would therefore be new and additional expenditure , and this motion can not therefore be treated as competent . |
| 17 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |
| 18 | Older men who change from manual work to non-manual clerical work late in their careers can more reasonably be regarded as proletarian , but as Stewart et al . |
| 19 | Most of them might more accurately be described as tinted pen and ink drawings than watercolours in the traditional sense . |
| 20 | Biological factors could also easily be incorporated as additional vulnerability factors ( see Akiskal , 1979 ) . |
| 21 | A system of equations that provides an accurate and physically satisfactory representation of an experimental system can be cumbersome , and even complicated and of high order , so solutions may often only be obtained as numerical approximations to solutions . |
| 22 | Such estates can now only be created as equitable interests by means of the machinery of a trust . |
| 23 | In trying to describe the mechanics of something which is more emotional than clinical , more sensual than physiological , they occasionally range into the ridiculous , but could almost never be described as sublime . |
| 24 | They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his . |
| 25 | The first reason why the market could no longer be perceived as limiting economic power was that the structure of the market ceased to correspond even loosely with the model of perfect competition which required numerous firms operating in the same industry so that no firm was capable of affecting the price of its product by varying the level of the output of that product . |
| 26 | DRUG addicts and ‘ dossers ’ are being considered by the Government among groups who should no longer be counted as unemployed . |
| 27 | Such Soviet and DRA claims that Afghanistan can meaningfully still be described as non-aligned have been ridiculed by Western statesmen . |
| 28 | Does my hon. Friend agree that any proposal to abolish the upper limit on national insurance contributions would mean that millions of people who could never remotely be regarded as rich would pay a great deal more in contributions and get nothing extra in benefits ? |