Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.

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1 Now the results of experiments on habituation of the OR have been taken as supporting the latter assertion — dishabituation fails to occur if the changed context is familiar .
2 Those that do are described as perpetual flowering , and those that bloom in short repetitive bursts are called repeat , recurrent , or the French remontant .
3 Supporters of the bill say that animals that have been kept as pets are too emotionally sensitive to be put in the hands of medical researchers .
4 The main shift , however , is in the new emphasis the White Paper is bound to place on intervention and regulation , words that have been regarded as mostly unpalatable in Tory conference debates over the past decade .
5 Use of temporary accommodation : At the end of June 1992 , there were 62,780 households living in temporary accommodation ( these are households that have been accepted as homeless by the local authority , but are not able to be housed in permanent accommodation ) .
6 In actual fact , there are some 15 vitamins , 24 minerals and 8–10 amino acids that have been isolated as being essential for normal body function .
7 The corporations are imposed by central government and are given powers of land and development that have been seen as ‘ staggering ’ ( Cullingworth , 1985 , p. 282 ) .
8 Common law constitutes the law and customs of ancient lineage that have been upheld as law by the courts in cases decided before them .
9 It has also often been argued that there is empirical evidence that rules the suggestion quite out of court by demonstrating that a pre-exposed stimulus quite lacks the properties that have been taken as defining for an inhibitory CS ( Rescorla 1969 ) .
10 The range of chemicals that have been identified as causing problems is enormous — Table 3 shows a representative selection .
11 A similar process of topic identification can contribute to the present project , by reinforcing the choice of words whose senses contain subject codes that have been identified as being representative of the overall text .
12 But the different ‘ policy groups ’ that have been identified as playing a part in policy-making and associated with specific interests and policy proposals are all bureaucrats — the military , industrial managers , agricultural experts , state officials , the economic bureaucracy , the party apparatus , police officials ( Brezezinski and Huntington 1964 ; Asparturian 1968 ; Skilling and Griffiths 1971 ; Schwartz and Keech 1968 ) .
13 In this section we examine some of the policy options that have been suggested as solutions to the crisis , and in the next we will conclude with an examination of the government 's response , and its prospects for success .
14 the words in the Kusaal example would , for example , have to be checked in a frame with a low tone ( Kusaal does n't have a mid tone ) immediately preceding the substitution item , to check if the words that have been marked as being lower than the high tone in the first frame do indeed have the same pitch , or if there are two levels lower than the high .
15 ( However , in this particular case , Mrs Hohne 's transfer to the new premises resulted in both her status and pay being reduced as she could no longer hold the post of manageress because there already was a person in this position in the new premises .
16 Some of these are recognized as regional and have been studied as such ( for example in Wakelin and Barry , 1968 , a study of the voicing of initial fricatives in South-west England ) : others are more widespread in English .
17 Firstly from eqn ( 9.4. ) where terms like and have been treated as negligible compared with .
18 The dogs need lots of exercise , but because they have now reached their age of retirement and have been reared as pets they are not suitable for shows .
19 To qualify for engagement on an Employment Action scheme applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 59 and have been registered as unemployed for at least six months .
20 To qualify for engagement on an Employment Action scheme applicants must be between the ages of 18 and 59 and have been registered as unemployed for at least six months .
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