Example sentences of "[modal v] be [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.

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1 If screening procedures and subsequent medical investigations show the presence of significant visual handicap , it may be decided by the ophthalmologist that the child should be registered as blind or partially sighted .
2 A minority of us thought that some schools should be integrated as sixth-form colleges , or centres , to which entry might properly be academically competitive .
3 At Boxmoor a sophisticated " cantharus , which shows few , if any , stylistic parallels in Romano-British mosaic , is notable ( in this mosaic , " angle pieces ' are also conspicuous however , and should be noted as possible precursors of the " L " shapes which become prominent in the residual lozenge patterns of the late-second century ; see appendix E ) .
4 First , there is the notorious difficulty of deciding whether a case should be categorised as judicial , administrative , executive , etc .
5 I was advised by the Greenbelt Local Plan Programme Officer , on fifth March , that counsel for North Yorkshire County Council , with the apparent concurrence of counsel for Ryedale District Council , had delivered an oral submission to the inspector , that at the hearing of the case which was to have taken place on the eleventh of March , certain evidence contained in my proof of evidence issued on twelfth February should be treated as inadmissible .
6 A more credible explanation is that the NICRA leadership was unwilling to accept that its marches should be treated as sectarian and provocative .
7 The School Government Regulations even allow the governors to decide that any matter ‘ by reason of its nature ’ should be treated as confidential and so exclude papers and minutes about it from public scrutiny .
8 They also emphasised that all assessment information about an individual should be treated as confidential , and confined to those with a clear ‘ need to know ’ .
9 S 357(3) ( b ) , ICTA 1988 makes the position quite clear : ‘ Where interest is payable on more than one loan or treated as made to the borrower and the loans were made simultaneously , it should be treated as payable on one loan . ’
10 The work will examine the way : familiar narratives are used to make the programme understandable and significant ; decisions are made over what should be treated as factual ; competing claims about facts are assessed .
11 Unfortunately , as was suggested in the last chapter , it is often difficult to decide on whether a word should be treated as complex or simple .
12 Second , within the Consumer Movement , the long-standing question whether its producer capacity should be developed as independent industrial co-operatives and hence under the control of the people working in them , or whether it should be treated as incidental to the consumer co-operatives and accountable to them , had , as we have seen , been decided once and for all in favour of the latter alternative .
13 The company convinced the academics that ‘ equivalent professional experience ’ should be viewed as equal to a first degree .
14 Fourth Criterion : Equal access to educational resources should be viewed as necessary , but not sufficient
15 It follows that changes to the legal framework that are deemed necessary to encourage or induce the desired behaviour should be viewed as permissible even though a substantial curtailment of shareholder rights may be involved .
16 The reason large companies should be viewed as social enterprises relies , it is suggested , on a political theory about the legitimacy of private power .
17 The idea that companies should be viewed as social enterprises does not depend on a theory specifically about the nature of the corporate form , but , as has been mentioned , on a theory about the circumstances in which power may legitimately be held .
18 But in any case if , as was argued in Chapter 1 , companies should be viewed as social enterprises , that is , they should be understood as vehicles for the promotion of the general good , then a requirement that managers should comply with publicly articulated decision- making standards , and that mechanisms should exist visibly to test compliance with them , should be regarded as something that is desirable in itself .
19 Professor Mathias has raised the question of whether such complaints should be viewed as valid description or as opinion indicative of employer attitudes.24 In fact it has both dimensions .
20 Glissandos should be made as long as possible , as they are ineffective unless very rapidly executed .
21 Until this week the government negotiating team , led by the minister of constitutional development , Roelf Meyer , had been insisting that the powers , duties and functions of regional governments should be fixed as constitutional principles which would bind a future elected constituent assembly .
22 The experience is subjective and should be assessed as subjective yet vital in understanding the individual .
23 Guidance should be given as appropriate to ensure that a student carries out the investigation involving mathematical techniques or skills acquired within the module .
24 A measure of confusion and uncertainty arose within the colony , however , as to the precise constitutional status of the bill in relation to the Basic Law — Hong Kong 's proposed mini-constitution [ see p. 37248 ] — and as to whether or not China had the power to repeal the bill , given its non-participation within the terms of the Covenant and its insistence that the Basic Law should be seen as supreme .
25 First Criterion : Gender differences should be seen as situational and interactional rather than global and structural .
26 Again it should be seen as close and calculated that the shawl which wraps the head in shame at first , becomes at last a green emblem of mercy .
27 The importance of language to education was undeniable ; yet it did not prove possible for development to take place within conventional faculties or schools of education ( in 1975 , for example , departments within the University of London Institute of Education were unable to agree about establishing a language centre because of concern over who should be seen as central ) .
28 Even in softly flowing ballets such as Monotone II where no impetus should be seen as deliberate , it must nevertheless be there and firmly controlled lf , for example , the two boys are to turn the girl sur pointe with her working leg stretched upwards and her head and body bent downwards over her supporting leg .
29 The two approaches should be seen as complementary .
30 If , as was argued earlier , the notion of duty should be seen as functional rather than purely temporal , it should therefore extend to all situations where the constable is engaged in obligatory police work .
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