Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's part of the set-up here that foreigners are treated as tremendously privileged guests , who are kept in a sort of cotton-wool cocoon such that contact with ordinary people is rather difficult . |
| 2 | All personal details are treated as strictly confidential and remain on computer file . |
| 3 | Differences between amounts funded and the amounts charged to the profit and loss account are treated as either provisions or prepayments in the balance sheet . |
| 4 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 5 | The children are treated as mentally retarded back home , simply because they do n't have parents . |
| 6 | Beyond this , the knowledge of the ways in which initially neutral cues are treated as potentially relevant or ignored is growing , and suggests once again that the rules for learning can be influenced by the nature of prior experience ( e.g. Dickinson , 1980 ) . |
| 7 | The best people are recognized as readily outside the company as within it . |
| 8 | Teachers are seen not to display the observer 's own preferred skills ; so they are diagnosed as not being competent in their use . |
| 9 | On the whole invitations are limited as yet to churches with a traditional musical repertoire , using the organ for accompaniment . |
| 10 | Particularly with large dogs , it 's essential for their future control and success as a pet that simple training in the basic commands , such as ‘ sit ’ , ‘ stay ’ , ‘ down ’ , ‘ come ’ and ‘ stop ’ are taught as soon as the puppy is taken on . |
| 11 | In the dramatic arts , which children are taught as soon as they can walk , each participant has a chance to become personally possessed by the soul of the character he is playing . |
| 12 | I think it must be all Sarahs or what else or something , all Sarahs are registered as very intelligent |
| 13 | Elderflower buds become black if they are pressed when still green , and you could use these , or Clematis montana tendrils to fill in the design . |
| 14 | They are recalled as somewhat sad , dependent figures : a ‘ poor old fellow ’ who went out to his sister for his meals ; ‘ a right cripple ’ who had been unable to work for over ten years ; ‘ a very old gentleman ’ who scraped together a living by selling vegetables and tomatoes which he grew in his greenhouse , but was ‘ very unhappy ’ because he had quarrelled with his drunken son . |
| 15 | The Scottish Officer in its Urban Programme ( Urban Aid ) makes grants available for projects which address aspects of disadvantage in areas which are designated as multiply deprived . |
| 16 | There are 10 species in the UK whose breeding populations are dependent on moorland and upland rough grassland ; populations of Golden Eagle , Hen Harrier , Merlin , Red Grouse and Golden Plover are regarded as internationally important . |
| 17 | Gallup recently found that scientists are seen as responsible for environmental problems , although industrialists and politicians are regarded as even more responsible . |
| 18 | This is of importance as long as those over a certain age , as well as those under another , are regarded as economically and socially dependent on the rest of the population . |
| 19 | you are regarded as not having been made redundant at all ; |
| 20 | Truly ungrammatical sentences are regarded as not resulting from any regular grammatical process ( e.g. ‘ I 've seen it happen is two girls fight . ’ ) . |
| 21 | We are regarded as either inferior men or superior animals . |
| 22 | Yet simultaneously rapists , and indeed all men who commit violent sexual offences , are regarded as particularly villainous by the majority of the population , and these crimes have a high priority in the public 's demand for law and order . |
| 23 | Money is held to provide the basis for that level of abstraction at which people are regarded as fundamentally equal to one another , bereft for purposes of social construction of their personal characteristics . |
| 24 | Tea and marijuana have three things in common : they alter the moods of those who take them , they are regarded as tolerably safe , and they are addictive . |
| 25 | These speeds are lower than in traditional streets , but they are greater than walking pace and are regarded as still being too high by elderly people and parents of young children . |
| 26 | For example , as I indicated in discussing personal care , it is regarded as legitimate for children to think about their own interests when deciding whether to support a parent , but this is balanced rather delicately with the morality of obligation and duty , so that children can quite easily get into the position where they are regarded as too self-interested . |
| 27 | Case conferences , the accepted model of interdisciplinary good practice in the assessments of children and families , are regarded as too bureaucratic and costly ( DoH , 1991a , p. 10 ) . |
| 28 | Further , market counterparties receive still less protection as they are regarded as fully capable of looking after their own interests and understanding the risks inherent in what they do . |
| 29 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 30 | Dischargers are regarded as potentially difficult people . |