Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] as [being] " in BNC.

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1 We accept our experience of waking consciousness as being normal and , for the most part , only professional philosophers spend much time thinking about its significance .
2 With increased age there is a significant decrease in the percentage describing health as being physically fit from 13 per cent ( 65 — 74 ) to 3 per cent ( aged 85 + ) .
3 One may therefore think of an innovation in teaching methods as being designed to achieve a set of intentions ( eg , changes in pupils ' ways of thinking ) by means of a set of processes which are usually only rather coarsely determined .
4 Librarians in colleges of education , as befitted people closely in touch with the professional education of teachers , made considerable advances in the integration of the teaching and administrative roles of their collections and their staffs , and increasingly regarded a wide range of teaching commitments as being suitable to them .
5 So , we can think of different modules from Dennett 's flow-chart as being stored and functioning in the same place in the machine , just as we can think of different levels of translation of programming language as being carried out in the same place in the machine .
6 If it 's like promoting the idea of killing cops as being a good thing , if this band wanted to do a song like that I would n't want to be in the band . ’
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