Example sentences of "[pers pn] is presented as " in BNC.
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| 1 | elevate the criminal justice into a ‘ community service ’ — it is presented as being above politics and dispensing ' justice for all' irrespective of class , race , sex , or religion — this further legitimates the state and those whose interests it wittingly , or otherwise , furthers ; |
| 2 | Instead it is presented as though it really were neutral , detached and scientific , and that the description reliably tells us of Wolof mental states rather than of Wolof cultural conventions . |
| 3 | It is presented as virtually the defining case for the argument that there is a crucial distinction between literate and non-literate societies and that this difference relates to differences in cognitive processes and the development of ‘ logic ’ . |
| 4 | Rather it is presented as simply a mirror image of the subjectivist principle of mens rea . |
| 5 | A reader will be prepared to accept an insight if it is presented as fiction , that is , as something a fictional character observes . |
| 6 | The trouble is that the promoter can then bowdlerise or doctor the final version that appears before the House , and it is presented as though it is objective , but is it really objective ? |
| 7 | Unlike the others , however , he is presented as wholly admirable : ‘ much irreconcilable moral contradiction did he pass his life among ; yet his equality of compassion was no more disturbed than the Divine Master 's of all healing was … |
| 8 | Nor was Roland in reality quite the great man and imperial favourite he is presented as in the poem , but a fairly obscure governor of Brittany . |