Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 2 | Should nation-states be regarded as the principal actors in the global political system ? |
| 3 | But should the war be regarded as the cause or merely the precipitant of the revolutionary transformation of Russia ? |
| 4 | ‘ And they all said , Hereinafter and for evermore let this place be known as the place where the milk was spilt , ’ said Betty dreamily . |
| 5 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 6 | Neither should the budget be treated as the little tin god that stifles all thought , initiative and development . |
| 7 | Will Work Experience be used as the basis for recruitment ? |
| 8 | Nor can the stability argument be regarded as the last word , as we do not know whether general relativity itself will be valid right up to the space-time singularity . |
| 9 | Perhaps so , but if this is the case , why should vertical stripes be selected as the particular zebra pattern ? |
| 10 | First , when will Marco be recognised as the Lost Prince and , secondly , when will he realise his identity ? |
| 11 | Neither should individualism be seen as the Christian corrective to collectivism . |
| 12 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 13 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 14 | This study also suggested that the maximum number of shares suggested by Evans and Archer should in fact be regarded as the minimum . |