Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] are [verb] as be " in BNC.

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1 Entries which are read from the Working-Set for update are flagged as being on-loan and belonging to the lexicographer who obtained it .
2 The pressures of bureaucracy are seen as being greater within large , comprehensive unions so that fragmented , ideological unions ( as in the Latin countries ) do not possess specialised staff resources to the extent of more pragmatically-based general unions , and they therefore leave greater room for local and plant initiatives by the membership .
3 People who have a sense of humour are regarded as being balanced and stable compared to people who are depressed and anxious and have difficulty seeing the funny side of life .
4 Lack of communication and the inability to see a differing point of view are cited as being the main causes .
5 Some methods in sociology are regarded as being more reliable than others .
6 Though Eliot refuses to treat the uneducated merely as ‘ savages ’ , his essential ideas about the indispensable contribution of religion to culture are presented as being derived from the study of a less complex model .
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