Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] not [be] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every good game defines the parameters of what may or may not be seen as a legitimate action . |
| 2 | The court will set aside a decision if it is taken by someone who is not or can not be appointed as the expert . |
| 3 | Thus , the interests of employees , customers , or the local community , for example , may be served only as a means of increasing shareholder wealth and may not be treated as ends in their own right . |
| 4 | Again , it is a starting point for negotiations and should not be seen as a definitive version . |
| 5 | Mr Morrison was adamant that the envoy idea was an act of friendship and should not be seen as a ‘ hostile act ’ . |
| 6 | This group of teaching aids is by far the most important , and should not be regarded as second rate . |
| 7 | That puling creature has the gall to remind me that Stephen is a consecrated king and should not be treated as a felon . |
| 8 | The above figures are only estimates and should not be taken as firm indicators . |
| 9 | The above figures are only estimates and should not be taken as firm indicators . |
| 10 | Refresher courses are usually one or two day affairs as opposed to a formally planned and evaluated re-entry course , and should not be used as a cheaper alternative to providing a structured re-entry programme . |
| 11 | The example contract included at 1101.10 is a final negotiated contract and should not be used as the basis of initial negotiations . |
| 12 | These clauses are merely extracts ; they are not intended to form the basis of a precedent and should not be used as one . |
| 13 | But their success has caught the eye of Tewkesbury Borough Council , which says that the land is for agricultural use only , and should not be used as a retail outlet for bonsai trees . |
| 14 | The defendants successfully applied to the English court for this service to be set aside on the grounds that personal service by the agent of a foreign litigant without the approval of the Swiss authorities was a criminal offence under the Swiss Penal Code and could not be regarded as valid service , as no English court could authorise service which was contrary to the internal law of the country in which service was to be effected . |
| 15 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 16 | According to Levi these " understandings " included the following : ( i ) Israel would not be obliged to accept the principle of " land for peace " ; ( ii ) the conference would have no power to make decisions and would not be used as a forum for appeal or discussion ; ( iii ) negotiations would be direct and without preconditions and would be aimed at a peace treaty ; ( iv ) the PLO would not be a partner to the process and the Palestinians would be represented by a joint delegation with Jordan ; ( v ) the UN observer at the conference would be silent and would be a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar ; ( vi ) a representative of the European Communities ( EC ) would attend the opening session of the conference ; ( vii ) the USA would not allow a parallel conference to take place in the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) the Soviet Union would renew full diplomatic ties with Israel before the start of a conference . |
| 17 | But the Lancashire-based company has now ceased trading and will not be sold as a going concern . |
| 18 | NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives . |
| 19 | The onset of puberty may occur as early as eleven or twelve and can not be reckoned as the sign of having reached adult status . |
| 20 | The empirical evidence suggests , however , that the supervision which institutional investors exercise over the management of a company is minimal and can not be regarded as a sufficient control over the managers of large public companies . |
| 21 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 22 | But poor refereeing is part and parcel of football and can not be used as an excuse for Newcastle 's plight . |
| 23 | One other possible objection is that the difference which we are describing may be real but should not be regarded as part of syntax , rather as a variation that comes into play only when we focus on the correlation between linguistic expressions and external non-linguistic phenomena . |
| 24 | This whole group of paints are in no inferior to the very liquid paints , they are similarly versatile , but can not be used as inks , which the thinner acrylics do so well . |