Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ready way to identify substances which in the course of many thousands of years have come to be accepted as precious is to scan the windows of jewellers ' shops in Bond Street or the Burlington Arcade and their counterparts in the wealthiest cities of the western world . |
| 2 | One of the consequences of taking proper account of the mortality of children classed as unoccupied is to remove the misleading impression that inequalities decline during childhood . |
| 3 | The decrease in the percentage classed as good is matched by an increase in the percentage defined as fairly good . |
| 4 | This suggestion of a compulsive activity with which he wants as little to do as possible is confirmed by his description of poetry as a " secretion " ( he quotes Housman favourably on this ) , an " evacuation " and even a " defecation " . |
| 5 | In terms of Fig. 10–5 , if is established , how is it that the number of workers recorded as unemployed is measured between points 2 and 4 rather than the real wage falling so that labour market equilibrium is established at Trade union power is an obvious explanation and is explored further in the context of coalitions below . |
| 6 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |