Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] as be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen months later , Thomas is making a good recovery , though he can not be diagnosed as being clear of leukaemia for another three years . |
| 2 | That can be justified as being consistent with the objectives of public interest and article 30 would not apply . |
| 3 | It is the duty of editors to ensure that inquiries into people 's private lives are not undertaken , and information or pictures about their private lives are not published , unless inquiry or publication can be justified as being necessary in the public interest . |
| 4 | ( v ) Mental patients may not be registered as being resident in a particular constituency solely by reason of being in a mental hospital within that constituency . |
| 5 | It is true that the claim in such a case can be distinguished as being proprietary in nature . |
| 6 | However , for reasons of clarity and simplicity , this level will be regarded as being implicit within discourse rules and ( to a lesser extent ) world knowledge . |
| 7 | This applies to both the concrete and abstract contributions , but it must be taken to imply that all goodness is to be regarded as being capable of reduction to a single mode , created in units . |
| 8 | Since it seems that the rain forest rather than the savannah was the chimpanzee 's original home , hunting should therefore be regarded as being typical of the animal . |
| 9 | Just as a statistical sample ( Chapter 5 ) must be of a certain size before reliable inferences concerning the population can be drawn , so a number of simulations must be run before the average behaviour can be treated as being descriptive of the real system . |
| 10 | The validation event for a consortium development will be arranged as is appropriate for the circumstances . |
| 11 | For when a religion is put into a position where its , albeit necessary , business activities appear in the eyes of its followers , to be outweighing in importance its original purpose , it ceases to be of the slightest use in so far as it is able to fulfil one of its most important reasons for existence , that is , to provide a satisfactory code of behaviour to be observed in that area of human conduct which can be considered as being subject to moral law . |
| 12 | My term can be seen as being analogous to the propensity to unproductive consumption , but this is not the same as the Keynesian propensity to consume . |
| 13 | Circular 7/87. on the provisions of the 1986 Act , explains what is meant by the general conduct of the school : ‘ It should be seen as being concerned with the whole ethos of the school 's life ’ . |
| 14 | One is reminded of the early expert , but possibly apocryphal , prediction that the maximum number of computers which could be envisaged as being necessary in the UK might be as much as two . |
| 15 | Remaining controls over the currency composition of assets can largely be characterized as being consistent with prudential asset-liability management . |
| 16 | The prospects for establishing bad faith are very limited however , given that virtually any policy that is premised on increasing profits but which will be damaging to employees , such as a plant closure , can be portrayed as being beneficial to the employees in general , for example by making other jobs in the company more secure , thus supporting the claim that employee interests have been sufficiently considered . |
| 17 | All human behaviour may be characterised as being subject to drives aimed at achieving a goal in order to satisfy a need . |
| 18 | What is , or is not , consistent with human dignity is obviously a value judgment , which can neither be confirmed nor refuted ; and , of course , one can think of other activities that could be construed as being inconsistent with human dignity , which are not criminalized . |
| 19 | This means that their relatedness to their organization can be construed as being infantile-like in that it evokes relationships reminiscent of childhood . |
| 20 | Since in the case of a solicitors ' partnership all parties to such agreements should be taken as being familiar with the legal principles governing covenants in restraint of trade as well as with the particular circumstances of the practice with which they have all been involved , it might be thought that the court would be unwilling to substitute its own ideas as to what might constitute reasonable protection for the business . |
| 21 | Over the course of the year prior to the interviews only 8% of island women could be categorised as being depressed in a psychiatric sense as compared with 15% of Camberwell women ’ . |
| 22 | Viewed in this light , the Norwegian proceedings would be categorised as being concerned with fiscal , and therefore public law , matters and not with matters civil or commercial . |
| 23 | Speakers also justify themselves to those who might be perceived as being similar to the self . |
| 24 | If so , a click pre-exposed in compound with a light will be perceived as being identical to the click presented alone , and compound pre-exposure will thus be perfectly effective in producing latent inhibition . |
| 25 | Again , these subordinate bodies might be described as being concerned with implementation and not with policy making . |