Example sentences of "as being [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He sees what is nowadays called , I think , ‘ inter-personal relations ’ as being largely predicated on the need for people to convince themselves that they have a wholeness and a separateness and an individuality and a defined self , and they do this by trying to define themselves against those other shifting , evanescent erm personalities that they call their friends , enemies , wives , children and so on . |
| 2 | The possibility of automatization of tasks at the tactical or even strategical level appears to be consistent with views of driver behaviour which regard normal driving as being primarily controlled by the simple maintenance of safety margins ( e.g. Summala , 1976 ; Summala , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | The campaign is identified as being primarily directed at the government , yet , as mentioned , local authorities have a role to play . |
| 4 | To many , scepticism has seemed a blind alley and yet , somehow , unavoidable , and much of the literature of the twentieth century has paraded its nihilism as being intellectually justified by the power of the sceptical position . |
| 5 | That land you obviously regard as being properly included within the inset ? |
| 6 | If the tendency towards crime is not seen as being already determined at the point of conception through the genes we inherit , then the obvious conclusion is that it must be subsequently acquired in some way . |
| 7 | Chiew sees her own research as being exclusively directed towards the well being of patients . |
| 8 | Sometimes , as in Kant 's theory , the idea of irreducibility of spatio-temporal relations is defended on general epistemological grounds and is regarded as being inseparably interlinked with the idea of an all-embracing unitary space . " |
| 9 | The restriction has to be justified in this case as being reasonably required for the protection of the plaintiffs ' trade secrets by preventing the defendant from disclosing confidential information imparted to him by the plaintiffs in the course of his employment … |
| 10 | Plato 's intimate association of time and the universe led him to regard time as being actually produced by the revolutions of the celestial sphere . |
| 11 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 12 | Indigenous working-class cultures of racism have thus been internally fragmented by strong sexual and generational divisions , as well as being externally mirrored in the forms of resistance mobilized by immigrant communities against them . |
| 13 | One is to conceive of them as being deliberately designed for the purposes they serve , the implication of which is that we should be constantly reforming existing institutions so that they may better serve those ends for which they were intended . |