Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One aspect of these changes is the strengthening view that existing boundaries between education and training are artificial and that both can better be seen as a single , lifelong process offered in different ways , to different people at different times . |
| 2 | Although almost all working-class housing in the novel is of that type , since it can better be represented as a ‘ home ’ , it was for that very reason much too expensive for the very poor . |
| 3 | The West Wing contained chambers which Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 66 ) interprets as state apartments , although they might better be interpreted as sanctuaries ; the chambers behind are admitted , by their excavator , Nicolas Platon ( 1971 , p. 257 ) , to be ritual in nature . |
| 4 | Jeremias has shown in The Central Message of the New Testament that nowhere in pre-Christian literature does anyone dare to call God by this intimate , family word which could better be translated as ‘ Daddy ’ or ‘ Dear Father ’ . |
| 5 | Given their present configuration , Opposition Front-Bench Members might better be described as a hot dog . |
| 6 | Foreplay , for instance , can rightly be defined as an activity intended to culminate in sexual intercourse , which means an engaged couple should not have entered into this yet . |
| 7 | They can rightly be described as such because in each case the plaintiff 's freedom and ability to earn a living was affected . |
| 8 | Also , once this perspective is established , any assurance from the other side of real interest in disarmament will naturally be seen as a trick , or at best as a propaganda move . |
| 9 | If the matrix event is felt to " control " the infinitive event 's realization , then the matrix event must obviously be conceived as a conditioning factor with respect to the latter , and therefore as logically prior to ( i.e. before ) the infinitive event . |
| 10 | Rappaport 's diagram can obviously be used as a basis for commencing this analysis . |
| 11 | Once mistaken for a joker , he could henceforth be seen as a crank : an important advance in reputation , though this playful and darting mind was seldom so serious as when it was spoofing , or so earnest in intent as when making a joke . |
| 12 | OUP is pleased to announce that Volumes 1 and 2 of The Oxford Dictionary of Current Idiomatic English are having their sub-titles promoted and will henceforth be known as The Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms and The Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs . |
| 13 | At a congress on May 26 , 1990 , the Left Party-Communists ( Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna — VpK ) voted by 136 votes to 133 to drop the word communist from its name ; it would henceforth be known as the Left Party . |
| 14 | It is in this sense that lawyers can also justly be characterised as the organic intellectuals of the bourgeoisie ( Gramsci 1971 , pp. 5–23 ) , thinking the class 's advance through a close institutional relationship with its day-to-day practical concerns . |
| 15 | ‘ Chris ’ Nelson can justly be described as the Henry Ford of ice cream novelty production . |
| 16 | Quantitative measures may allow a discovery of pattern in the situations which might otherwise merely be seen as random variation . |
| 17 | He will merely be remembered as the man who told us , as the Minister of Energy during the four-day week in the last days of the Heath government , to clean our teeth in the dark , for heaven 's sake . |
| 18 | It is a sadly neglected work , and again the only serious alternative to Järvi is Stravinsky 's Chicago recording which like the Jeu can only be obtained as part of a mammoth 22-CD Sony set of virtually all Stravinsky 's major works ( totally indispensable though that is ) . |
| 19 | Underpinning should only be accepted as a last resort when all other reasonable options have been considered . |
| 20 | In places where the RCN is not recognised then representation can only be given as a ‘ friend ’ . |
| 21 | Binary signals can only be transmitted as the equivalent to ‘ on-off ’ , ‘ yes-no ’ and ‘ 0–1 ’ , for example . |
| 22 | The manner in which death came to men , including those innocent of any offence , could be so appalling that the final stroke could only be regarded as a merciful relief . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it was felt that the potential costs of providing the necessary microfilming equipment , plus additional staff time , would outweigh any benefits gained , particularly as this could only be regarded as an interim solution before progressing to greater computerisation . |
| 24 | From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories . |
| 25 | For public transport flights it is a very small risk indeed , but it can only be regarded as a prudent action to take out personal life insurance before one voluntarily exposes oneself to the hazards of flight . |
| 26 | In the context of bureaucratic assessment , however , it could only be regarded as ‘ noise in the system ’ . |
| 27 | In what can only be regarded as the ultimate pilot 's ‘ Jim 'll fix it ’ fantasy come true , he persuaded the RAF to let him go through key parts of the four-year course that ends with a posting to an operational fighter squadron . |
| 28 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly therefore , the results of the 1983 survey show that mass unemployment ‘ has created a serious new risk of what can only be regarded as downward social mobility — and that risk is much greater for men in working class positions , by whatever route they come into them , than it is for others ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 30 | By strict standards , therefore , the memoirs must contain much that can only be regarded as fiction . |