Example sentences of "their [noun pl] to be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legislation is going through to allow their pictures to be used as evidence . |
| 2 | Gothic architecture , he insisted , ‘ is English CHURCH ARCHITECTURE ’ and , by implication , if Nonconformists wanted their denominations to be considered as part of the Christian Church in England then their buildings must be Gothic . |
| 3 | The monks of the Middle Ages used to practise ‘ divine reading ’ , which meant that they expected their lives to be transformed as a result of what they read . |
| 4 | Speakers who intend their utterances to be understood as an interpretation can not be creating expectations of truthfulness , since their utterances do not purport to be a description of a state of affairs . |
| 5 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |