Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not [be] [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 The fact that ECGD may have instructed them should not be taken as an endorsement of their expertise , official or otherwise .
2 I 'll not be treated as a damned security risk , ’ the Prime Minister had said to the Deputy Under Secretary .
3 That happened to Harry Porter in about 1927 when Lance Henly called after him ‘ Young Mr. Porter , do n't you think as a member of the Bank of England you should not be playing as an Artisan ? ’
4 The first time she discovered the awful mess he had deliberately left in the kitchen , Beth was determined she would not be used as a skivvy .
5 Until I hear from Bessie , or see for myself , that you are really trying to behave better , you can not be treated as a good , happy child , like my children . ’
6 The company has informed your two banks , where you have substantial overdrafts , I understand , that your employment with us has ceased , and we can not be regarded as guarantors .
7 In the modern world , we are reduced to an idealized figment of the communist imagination or we fall into secular despair , but we can not be exalted as a personal being , uniquely loved for our own sake .
8 Although this chapter and the next are about sex differences in the use of language , they should not be treated as an exhaustive catalogue of research findings on that subject .
9 But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else .
10 Expert private customers can elect that they should not be treated as private customers ; if they do , they are non-private customers .
11 They also decided that two Albanians who had recently bought land in Zakuti should be boycotted , and that they should not be accepted as residents of the village ( Borba , 18 June 1986 ) .
12 My believe is what P P G is inviting local authorities to do is be cautious in proposing them , they should not be regarded as a first option , or an easy option , they should be cautious in proposing them .
13 The evidence of this study indicates that while simplicity in initiating proceedings , informality in surroundings , and procedural flexibility are valuable qualities worthy of preservation , they should not be used as a justification for denying the contribution that representation makes to tribunal decision-making processes , nor the need of appellants to have cases advocated on their behalf .
14 They should not be used as part of the user-supplied entries ( e.g. in comment fields ) .
15 They should not be used as part of the user-supplied entries ( e.g. in comment fields ) .
16 SIR — and have firmly held opinions on nuclear power ( Nature 361 , 677–680 ; 1993 ) , but they should not be construed as facts .
17 He acted out of moral considerations yet they could not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense because they were principles or considerations involved in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' .
18 In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens .
19 There is no need for a warning or consent , however , in the case of the firm 's employees who deal through the firm ( as is often required for personal account dealings ) if they are informed that they will not be treated as private customers .
20 Not all bishops were employed by the king and some of them had acquired their sees in the face of royal opposition ; they can not be dismissed as king 's men .
21 Furthermore , these circumstances are said to be essentially heterogeneous , so that they can not be seen as aspects of one large contradiction ; each is a contradiction within a particular social totality .
22 These features make the life of reconstituted families very complex ; they can not be seen as enclosed entities in the same way as cereal-packet nuclear families are .
23 When deprived of these sensations they can not be used as checks when maintaining a safe environment .
24 A further point is that your protected rights must be used to purchase the annuity which will pay for your annual pension when you retire ; they can not be used as a contribution towards your lump sum .
25 Although these urban areas support a surprisingly large variety of nesting birds they can not be considered as a major nesting habitat for any except Swifts , Starlings , House Sparrows and hirundines .
26 The Epistles of St Paul and the Apocalyptic Book of Revelation contain many high and mystical expressions of belief about Christ but they can not be described as ‘ records ’ of the kind which would compel rational belief .
27 If a right to a longer turn is obtained its ending must also be signalled so that the other participants know it is finished and a contribution from them will not be construed as an interruption .
28 If a preferred way of delivering a service can not be met but the care manager feels it is an unreasonable demand , the department advises it should not be recorded as an unmet need by as an unmet preference .
29 For a senior job it should not be regarded as a burden to see 12 people and then draw up a short list of three or four .
30 So , while the ‘ angle of dangle ’ can give one a start in setting up a bridle , it should not be regarded as a universal solution .
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