Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restrictions on footballers in Eastern Europe playing abroad have gradually been eased as Poles , Soviets and others have come to regard the export of players as a useful means of acquiring hard currency . |
| 2 | Art for art 's sake has been dismissed as ‘ apolitical ’ , ‘ solipsistic ’ , ‘ bourgeois ’ . |
| 3 | Some of those who have recorded human rights violations have been dismissed as trouble-makers and on occasion have themselves been threatened , tortured and killed . |
| 4 | Babe-obsessed boys like Bill and Ted , Wayne and Garth and MTV 's Pauly Shore might once have been dismissed as metalhead wastoids , but now they 're big box office in a country seemingly intent on celebrating the stupidity of its youth . |
| 5 | Yet the Africanness of those wars has meanwhile been obscured by the outbreak in Europe of tribal fights that would once have been dismissed as typically African . |
| 6 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 7 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 8 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 9 | According to Cannistraro , the report had been dismissed as unreliable at the time but now , in the light of the ‘ proven ’ Libyan connection , was the missing link that placed the blame squarely on Gaddafi . |
| 10 | A few days earlier Ouedraogo had been dismissed as secretary-general of the Organization for People 's Democracy-Labour Movement ( ODP — MT ) , the dominant grouping within the Front , reportedly for having displayed " serious failures of principle and party policy " . |
| 11 | Haider had been dismissed as governor of Carinthia in June 1991 for praising the Nazis ' employment policies [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 12 | Saadi , whose family dynasty had effectively run the province for over 40 years , had been dismissed as governor by President Carlos Saúl Menem in April 1991 and the province had been placed under a federal government trusteeship , following widespread evidence of official involvement in corruption and drug trafficking [ see p. 38144 ] . |
| 13 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 14 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 15 | Given that the recognition of the significance of portal hypertension in portopulmonary hypertension is recent , it is possible that other cases of PBC associated primary PHT have been dismissed as merely associated with liver disease . |
| 16 | Nigel Atkins , chairman of the east coast committee , said a blockade had been dismissed as being ‘ inappropriate at this juncture ’ . |
| 17 | On-farm inspection , as practised under the old calf subsidy scheme and which was suggested as a workable substitute by both farmers and auctioneers , had been dismissed as impractical . |
| 18 | a matter will be er that we going to fight er , easily er so I mean i , it meant that the er , that er er some more should be brought out so that it er does er adhere to what er these er er government departments er expect as a response rather than er er as this considered issue raising er , we can er facilitate that er quite er easily but er I think er the the main point is what Hugh has said , that er we opposed it because it 's not going to help in my view it 's not going to help er the patients , the patients are not going to come off any better as a result of er , these er er what I would say and I feel and er the , I I I 'd like to know what er the GP 's think about cos GP 's usually erm er , advise their patients if they have to wait a long time from one hospital , they would advise them to go into London and er , if that 's been stopped as been er that 's been stated erm then erm , er the GP 's are not going to feel very happy about their patients er , getting er erm a lesser service . |
| 19 | All theoretical curves are normalized as described in the text . |
| 20 | A Thai bronze figure of the Walking Buddha , which had been catalogued as dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and estimated at £25,000-£30,000 , turned out to have been made within the last 150 years . |
| 21 | Subsidence Claims Advice leaflet ( PC17 ) should be issued to policyholders in every case where a subsidence claim has been intimated as this will forewarn the insured of the procedures and timescales likely to be involved . |
| 22 | White working-class and black women 's stories of employment difficulties and success are heard as case histories of psychic tension , and lesbian women 's attempts to redefine relations between women become assimilated to accounts of pre-oedipal intimacy . |
| 23 | However , the rationale for using this paradigm as a way of investigating perceptual units was established by Ladefoged and Broadbent ( 1960 ) who showed that the position of clicks is not reported accurately , because they are heard as displaced from their original position to the boundaries of perceptual units . |
| 24 | Another definition of I t is the initial value of the shares corresponding to one futures contract ( that is , S t ) , so that arithmetic returns are calculated as ( F t +1 ; - F t ) /S t ( Figlewski and Kon , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | The elements of R ( are calculated as explained earlier ; the result is r i =0.65 , r 2 =0.35 , r 3 =0.37 and r 4 =0.63 . |
| 26 | Five banks : Midland ; Security Pacific National ; Chemical Bank ; Mitsubishi Finance International and Barclays have been joined as respondents and Mr Chadwick represents all but Barclays . |
| 27 | Current regulations on safety are dismissed as ‘ woefully inadequate ’ and the association calls on drivers to boycott models if manufacturers fail to make safety a priority . |
| 28 | A string of distinguished television current-affairs programmes are dismissed as being soft on criminals and terrorists ; TV programme-makers turn out to be pretentious , corrupt , cynical and generally ‘ nauseating … these saintly people , living off the fat of the land , try to kid you that they are guardians of the common weal ! ’ |
| 29 | Next , the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar . |
| 30 | All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom . |