Example sentences of "be [prep] be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latter category may form the raw material or foundation for comparisons , but such studies are to be regarded as preparatory , rather than being fully comparative , since the questions asked of the data are at best implicit and few analytical statements are drawn from them . |
| 2 | Dances which emphasize indecent movements are to be regarded as obscene . |
| 3 | In Greek mythology , as one might expect , many examples of heroes who resemble Gilgamesh can be found , and it is likely that the Amazons are to be understood as mythological recollections of the traumatic character of the impact of the new , aggressive and masculine child-rearing regimes of the mothers of early agriculture . |
| 4 | His general thesis was that the decisions from 1884 to 1945 , which held that the child when born can not recover damages for pre-natal injury , represent the pure doctrine of the common law , while all the decisions from 1946 onwards , which all took the opposite view , are to be rejected as heretical and wrong . |
| 5 | Take care to establish whether within the terms of such a contract you are considered part of the rostered qualified workforce , or whether you are to be treated as supernumerary . |
| 6 | Statements conveying preferential relationships between terms indicate which terms are to be treated as equivalent to one another , or which concepts are to be grouped together under one index term . |
| 7 | It should be noted that the act stipulates that the time limits are to be treated as approximate only . |
| 8 | Lord MacMillan in Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 at p289 stated : The Section does not declare that the dispositions with which it deals are to be treated as non-existent in a question between the maker of the disposition and the Inland Revenue . |
| 9 | If propositions purporting to be about fictional things are to be accepted as meaningful , then it is only on condition that they can be paraphrased into propositions about non-fictional things ; for example , into propositions about persons who are thinking , alleging , claiming , etc. something fictional . |
| 10 | As for the meaning of dependent conditionals , it is possible and perhaps necessary to say of them , as it is commonly said of " if " statements of various kinds , that they are to be taken as primitive , in the sense of not being open to analytical definition or reductive analysis . |
| 11 | These seven canvases from the original ten — three are now lost — are to be offered as separate lots with estimates between £50,000–70,000 and £80,000–120,000 . |
| 12 | But as a suggestion it seems rather to name the difficulty than to solve it : which false beliefs are to be counted as relevant ? |
| 13 | Slimming pills containing high levels of guar and locust bean gums are to be banned as potential health risks , the Ministry of Agriculture has announced . |
| 14 | With the breakdown of faith in the fundamental rationality of man we no longer ask , for example , whether the drives of Freud 's Id and Super-ego are to be classed as egoistic , or see a puzzling self-contradiction in masochism . |
| 15 | As it so happened the decision of Pope Innocent II that Mabel was illegitimate , because of her father 's first contractual marriage , was later superseded by the judgment of Pope Alexander III that the children of annulled marriages , which had been made " in the presence of the church " ( i.e. in good faith and in public ) , were to be regarded as legitimate . |
| 16 | According to this rule , all male members of the community were obliged to wait until the age of twenty to marry and sire children ; at the age of thirty , they were to be regarded as mature and initiated into the higher ranks of the sect . |
| 17 | The judge further ordered that the doctors were to be regarded as independent and to furnish copies of their reports to both Crown and defence . |
| 18 | The fact that more than four times as many Soviet warheads were to be withdrawn as American ones gave rise to particular misgivings . |
| 19 | Leaders were to be tolerated as long as they were not permanent , and as long as they were held constantly ‘ accountable ’ . |
| 20 | The interpretation for which both the applicant and the Attorney-General contended before the Court of Appeal was that the answer was affirmative ; either because the proceedings for habeas corpus were so firmly imprinted with a civil character that they were to be treated as civil , notwithstanding the essentially criminal nature of the proceedings from which they arose , or because they were of an indeterminate nature , which section 13(2) ( a ) was wide enough to embrace . |
| 21 | Old Testament kings were to be taken as literal models , the measurements of the Temple in Jerusalem as a blueprint for the palatine chapel . |
| 22 | In the Trust House Forte case the court had to interpret the assumption that premises were available for letting for shopping and retail purposes : the issue was whether the premises were to be taken as available for letting purposes only or whether they could be taken as to be available for letting for any other purpose permitted by the lease . |
| 23 | The zaibatsu were to be dissolved as interlocking corporate entities and the US model of monopoly control established . |
| 24 | For many people their worst nightmare is to be presented as naked in front of a group . |
| 25 | If the principle of induction is to be defended as reasonable , then some more sophisticated argument than an appeal to its obviousness must be offered . |
| 26 | The suggestion that though God is to be conceived as male , humanity is to be understood as female in relation to God , I shall leave until the next chapter . |
| 27 | Unless collective pressure is to be treated as democratic by definition , the only ground for specially associating it with democracy is that democracy might be held to give collective pressure an exceptional legitimacy . |
| 28 | As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’ |
| 29 | The suggestion that though God is to be conceived as male , humanity is to be understood as female in relation to God , I shall leave until the next chapter . |
| 30 | It is not entirely clear whether in the latter case the defendant is to be regarded as reckless or not . |