Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If money as abstraction engenders this cynical attitude , so the plethora of products and pleasures creates the blasé attitude in which all objects are perceived as dull and unexciting , and only a new stimulation which rises above the others can produce some , usually temporary , interest ( 1978 : 256–7 ) . |
| 2 | Third , from a methodological perspective , perspective , mentalistic accounts are seen as valid so long as they are closely tied to observations , so that any proposed link between behaviour and underlying knowledge is subject to rigorous scrutiny and ultimately to falsification through additional empirical enquiry ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 3 | That is , it totally fails to consider the persistence of power through property ownership ; moreover , its conception of the labour market ignores those factors which determine whether or not one 's skills are perceived as marketable , and whether some groups , for example the professions , have the power to establish the view that their particular skills are valuable . |
| 4 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 5 | Leibniz 's view is that the sources of individuation lie within the entities themselves ; in other words , entities are regarded as basic , and places are said to be explicable in terms of relations between entities — " entities " meaning here " individual substances " or " monads " . |
| 6 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |
| 7 | Once there are more data available , and the phenomena are established as real , the way is open for theorising about the nature of UAPs . |
| 8 | Rather , their intentions and activities are perceived as identical to those of humans : to feed themselves and to prevent or overcome mishaps . |
| 9 | The following activities are designed as skill-building and awareness-raising exercises to be used by groups of teachers : |
| 10 | Some projections are described as equal-area because the areas measured from maps drawn using those projections are proportional to the true ground areas they represent . |
| 11 | Both these meanings are seen as important to Christians today . |
| 12 | I want at least five and I just wanted to erm establish that with one or two other people who er presently attend the tourism meetings are invited as required , rather than to every meeting . |
| 13 | Deer-stalking estates are regarded as central to local economies , and their lairds enjoy feudal respect . |
| 14 | All values are given as mean ( SE ) . |
| 15 | All values are expressed as mean ( SEM ) . |
| 16 | All values are expressed as mean ( standard error of the mean ( SEM ) ) . |
| 17 | All values are reported as mean ( SD ) . |
| 18 | Moral and religious disagreements are seen as endemic to a democratic society , and the validity of the Rawlsian conception of justice is limited to such a society . |
| 19 | Whether Carthage or London , the poem 's cities are seen as horrible , life-denying . |
| 20 | An American model of ‘ privatism ’ ( see Barnekov , Boyle and Rich , 1989 ) has in recent times been deemed as exportable . |
| 21 | Grammatical rules are seen as existing independently of the child , and changes in the child 's language in the direction of conventional syntax and morphology are seen as indicative of the child acquiring the rules which make up the grammatical system . |
| 22 | The yellow powders from some manufacturers are acceptable but some degreasers are marketed as white powders and may be mistaken for food ingredients . |
| 23 | Details of individual programmes are given as usual in the Radio Times . |
| 24 | On the left , the state programmes are criticized as imperialist population control , preventive genocide or " another counter-insurgency mechanism " . |
| 25 | With only 2,000 breeding pairs left in the US , reintroduction programmes are seen as vital if it is to escape extinction as a result of local disasters . |
| 26 | Spherulites are classified as positive when the refractive index of the polymer chain is greater across the chain than along the axis , and negative when the greater refractive index is in the axial direction . |
| 27 | Builders ' standardised products are slated as boring and overpriced . |
| 28 | It is only a short way from this position to punishment of artists whose views are seen as heretical , a tendency which led in medieval times to burnings at the stake and , more recently , to the horrors of the Maoist ‘ cultural revolution ’ . |
| 29 | The electorate 's views are seen as stable , centrist and moderate , but , in the context of an electoral system that bolsters the two-party system and blocks the easy rise of third parties of moderation , the House of Commons is " unrepresentative " and the party activists unchecked . |
| 30 | These cultures are viewed as remote and distant , and few teachers go out into the community to learn or take part in community activities … |