Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Instances in which they are ‘ irremediable ’ or ‘ inevitable ’ are a mere residue of the much larger number of cases currently treated as if they are . |
| 32 | Personal involvement was implicit in the tone and the procedures involved : the matters under consideration were treated as if they did matter ; epochs and makers of epochs were sharply characterized and subjected to urgent evaluation . |
| 33 | This is not an experiment that can ever be done , although some people assume that certain remote and isolated faunas , such as those of Australia and Madagascar , can be treated as if they were ancient , as if a trip to Australia were like a trip backwards in a time machine . |
| 34 | While it is often the case that methods are treated as if they were tools in a tool box ready and waiting to be used for their appropriate task , it is vitally important that any aspiring methodologist does not take this too seriously but tries , instead , to understand the presumptions which underpin methods . |
| 35 | Lieberson in a powerful and detailed critique of experimental thinking in social research , after all one of the cornerstones of variable analysis , argues that although most data in social research are non-experimental in origin , they are " treated as if they were truly experimental data … sliced , chopped , beaten , molded , baked , and finally artificially coloured until the researcher is able to serve us proudly with a plateful of mock experiment " . |
| 36 | Figure 9–3(b) illustrates the special ease where A and B have identical utility functions or , alternatively , where it is accepted that A and B ought always to be treated as if they had identical utility functions . |
| 37 | Similar provisions apply to RFLs practising through an RB in respect of annual contributions , on the basis that share-owners and directors are treated as if they were principals . |
| 38 | Thus , three other categories of persons who are not involved in any manufacturing , are treated as if they were producers under s2 . |
| 39 | ‘ Maybe some Italian women will put up with being treated as if they were children , but American women — ’ |
| 40 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally disabled and are sometimes even drugged . |
| 41 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 42 | They 're treated as if they 're mentally retarded , ending up as factory fodder . |
| 43 | ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ is set in the Deep South of Alabama , where the majority of white men will not accept Negroes into a white society and it 's not only that the Negroes do not live amongst the whites , in some cases they are treated as if they are nobody . |
| 44 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 45 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 46 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |
| 47 | This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas . |
| 48 | We have , therefore , treated as if it were an artificial variable . |
| 49 | On appeal by the Crown , it was found that the Lord Ordinary had failed to give proper weight to Taxes Management Act 1970 , in particular that interest on overdue tax was to be treated as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it related . |
| 50 | Where religion is reduced to either , and treated as if it were simply a form of knowing or a form of doing , it is lost to sight altogether . |
| 51 | The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks . |
| 52 | This means that a premium paid during a tax year is treated as if it had been paid during the previous tax year ; or the tax year before that , if there were no relevant earnings in the previous year . |
| 53 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 54 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 55 | They were particularly anxious to avoid having ‘ topic ’ , in discourse study , treated as if it were somehow expressible by a simple noun phrase , as often happens in the treatment of sentential topics . |
| 56 | For the UK this means that the run-down of many sectors of manufacturing is treated as if it is unconnected with the policies of successive UK governments , with the qualities of management and the character of British trade unionism . |
| 57 | It is not to be treated as if it were a statutory definition . |
| 58 | In other words , for this purpose , and for this purpose only , a minor was to be treated as if it were an adult . |
| 59 | In the group accounts , the subsidiary undertaking is treated as if it had always been a member of the group . |
| 60 | It remains the law that a trade union is not , and is not to be treated as if it were , a body corporate , but a much wider measure of tort liability is now imposed by the Employment Act 1982 . |