Example sentences of "[vb past] as being [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked the straw mattress and pulled out a small leather pouch which Corbett recognised as being in common use by clerks in the Chancery or envoys on their travels . |
| 2 | The middle-aged mother , however , who has dependants , a job , a mortgage and a car — all the trappings of the standard nuclear family , but without the visible support of the person normally responsible for such things — is generally treated like a rabid dog , something acknowledged as being in the neighbourhood but to be avoided at all costs . |
| 3 | Essentially they wanted a consultancy service from a social worker who was basically a colleague sharing their frustrations and difficulties but also their joys and successes and recognising their own expertise and greater knowledge of detail ; a sounding-board off which to bounce ideas about how to solve a problem ; someone concerned about quality control , providing an inspectorial service so that the child 's interests could be safeguarded ( but this aspect they saw as being of prime importance at the approval and matching stage ) . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , this list covers a group of people whom Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA saw as being in the frontline of the attack on established values . |
| 5 | And Robert Donat can not have been the only one who complained to Korda about a ‘ silly and unproductive attitude towards scripts ’ , which he credited as being at ‘ the root of the failure of so many British films . ’ |
| 6 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |