Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] to be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we spoke English and they spoke English , our verbs , our pronouns and prepositions seemed to be examined as if they were foreign . |
| 2 | Christopher Hill had always acknowledged that it was doubtful that there had been a Ranter organisation and difficult to define what ‘ the Ranters ’ as a group believed as opposed to individuals whose views came to be labelled as Ranters . |
| 3 | They successfully politicised lived experiences of women in such a way that their concerns came to be seen as the concerns of Labour . |
| 4 | In Canada , a train frequently used by Mohawk Indians came to be known as ‘ The Moccasin' . |
| 5 | Instead of being perceived simply as agents of the shareholders the board of directors came to be viewed as an organ of the company which for many purposes could be treated as the company . |
| 6 | ( The estate and its future vast sugar plantations came to be known as Figtree . ) |
| 7 | Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty ( eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC ) , although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously . |
| 8 | This was all part of a movement to prohibit the use of alcohol and the propagators began to be known as the prohibitionists . |
| 9 | Alternatively two bays had to be treated as one . |
| 10 | The Allies seemed to be drawn as if by a magnet to our local villages . |
| 11 | Illustrated newspapers were produced in a variety of languages for distribution abroad ; and from late in 1915 films began to be used as a propaganda medium . |
| 12 | In Lloyd the accused had cinema films copied to be sold as videos and returned them . |
| 13 | Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years . |
| 14 | The Samaritans wanted to be treated as Sidonians , just as the inhabitants of Jerusalem were now treated as Antiochenes . |
| 15 | Certain social groups began to be regarded as consumer target populations . |
| 16 | Thus [ = = ] any real-world departure from equilibrium conditions came to be stamped as the opposite of ‘ competitive ’ and hence , by simple extension , as actually ‘ monopolistic . ’ |
| 17 | The debate on these issues continued for several centuries and the proposed solutions were very varied , but all of them had the ultimate implication that only the civilized Christian Europeans deserved to be rated as true men in a fully human sense ; all other " men " being variously rated as sub-human animals , monsters , degenerate men , damned souls , or the product of a separate creation . |
| 18 | The argument was that almost anything could be used in connection with cars or motoring , and so a very wide range of goods fell to be classified as motor accessories for the purposes of the section . |
| 19 | They were marked by an unexpected degree of mutual respect and by the URNG 's acceptance of guarantees of future reforms , in place of its previous insistence that certain social problems had to be solved as a precondition to any agreement . |
| 20 | The goal of psychoanalysis was the development of a new set of techniques for use in psychiatry , and in this context dreams tended to be treated as neurotic symptoms rather than as a normal aspect of experience . |
| 21 | The Act of 1986 built on the foundations of the typical debenture by providing in Part III for administrative receivers and in Part II machinery for the making of administration orders intended to be used as a statutory alternative to an administrative receiver by filling |
| 22 | Consequently , the jobs available to youths came to be known as dead-end' jobs or as ‘ blind-alley ’ employment in this period of history . |
| 23 | It may have been a glamorous enough life on stage and , despite the famous Tiller ethos , at the stage door , where the young lads who laid siege to the girls came to be known as Stage Door Johnnies . |
| 24 | By Nov. 1 1943 the German C-in-C Southeast had concluded ‘ that Tito 's forces had to be treated as a full military threat and not merely as insurgents and that it was more important to defeat them than to prepare against the less likely threat of an Allied landing ’ . |
| 25 | Video Plan 6 on page 53 is taken from materials intended to be used as language reinforcement . |
| 26 | Gradually all these societies came to be known as missions , their premises as deaf club or institute and their heads as superintendents , missioners or , if ordained by the Church of England , chaplains . |
| 27 | Because grants to courtiers came to be seen as an abuse , monopolies to individuals were prohibited in 1624 , but corporations could still receive them and they continued to be the basis for trade outside Europe in the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 29 | In both cases , the detectives refused to be treated as lackeys — and were backed by their bosses . |
| 30 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |