Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [be] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | it isolates action as being of interest in itself in a way that does not occur either in dramatic playing or performing . |
| 2 | The Denmark Farm Conservation Centre is in part financed by the Countryside Council for Wales , who have recognised the experiment as being of national significance . |
| 3 | It would be a mistake , however , to dismiss this aspect of the Liberal reform programme as being of no legislative or historical significance , at least in so far as the preceding details have revealed that the different schemes were the result of much thought and argument on the part of a number of interest groups , each of which cared about the transition process , believing it to be critical for the economic and moral welfare of working-class youth . |
| 4 | This interpretation amounts to saying that an animal will still recognize an habituated stimulus when that stimulus is presented in a new context but will be prepared to change very quickly its assessment of that stimulus as being of no significance . |
| 5 | Buddhism started with being morality without worship ; and it is as a system of morality , but of morality as being of inherent obligation , that Buddhism claims to be reckoned among the religions of the world . |
| 6 | a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives confirmed by the Institute as being of good standing and having been admitted as a Fellow for not less than three years ; |
| 7 | Four areas had been previously identified by the Management Team as being of particular importance with respect to commercial awareness and it was proposed that further investigation into these areas was required from all of ROADCARE 's staff to ensure that the ‘ correct ’ solutions are applied . |
| 8 | I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance . |
| 9 | This appears to be the case regardless of whether the innovation is evaluated by the wider urban community as being of high or of low status . |
| 10 | Moreover those units will relentlessly force themselves into the human conscience as being of a wholly desirable nature , that is , good . |
| 11 | We have abstracted away from particular contexts , across communicative contexts in general , to arrive at a set of features , some of which seem relevant to the identification of a speech event as being of a particular kind , to the ability of the hearer to predict what sort of thing the speaker is likely to say in a given type of context , and to the constraining of interpretation in context . |
| 12 | In contrast , the concept of education has normative overtones and we think of the processes of education as being of value apart from its instrumental use , that is education is seen as being concerned with the development of autonomous individuals who are able to adapt and influence their circumstances rather than be constrained by specific roles ( Stephens 1988 ) . |
| 13 | abour nationally launching its final push before Thursday polls , dismissed Mr Winmills defection as being of little consequence . |
| 14 | At other times , William Joyce referred more vaguely to his father as being of independent means . |
| 15 | Elsewhere in his speech Gladstone specifically referred to the long runs of periodicals in the library as being of interest to him as he could not keep them in his own library . |
| 16 | If it is listed , then it has been officially recognized by a qualified historic building inspector as being of special interest ; it has statutory protection and , in the words of the government circular , ‘ warrants every effort being made to preserve it ’ . |
| 17 | These are buildings held on a list now compiled by the Heritage Sponsorship Division of the Department of the Environment for the Secretary of State as being of ‘ special , historic or architectural interest ’ . |
| 18 | The approach was regarded by the government as being of particular benefit to the older urban areas . |
| 19 | They held such things as power and government as being of little importance . |
| 20 | hold other educational qualifications approved by the Senate as being of an equivalent standard |
| 21 | Because women homeworkers ' wages tended to be small and because it is not clear either how many ‘ hard cases ’ there were , or how large the homeworking sector was , historians have tended to regard this area of women 's employment as being of slight importance . |
| 22 | Where a court , or another authority or person makes an order for detention of a Member as being of unsound mind , or where a doctor recommends such detention , or where a Member is so detained , that court , authority , person , doctor or the head of the hospital , etc. where the Member is detained , must notify the Speaker . |
| 23 | It is , however , immediately regarded by the fortunate experiencer as being of an altogether higher and more real nature than ‘ normal ’ , everyday experience . |