Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But prospects for Exeter are described as ‘ excellent . ’ |
| 2 | Defence Ministers of the Visegrad Three countries ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ) met at Zruby in Slovakia on Sept. 25 , when Imrich Andrejcak of Czechoslovakia was quoted as saying that there were no plans for the three countries to sign a military pact or form a military union . |
| 3 | The streets of Pontydd were deserted as the pageant rolled through . |
| 4 | The remainder of Scotland was regarded as ‘ rural . ’ |
| 5 | Once the boon of common liberal institutions had been granted by a generous metropolis , a refusal to accept the rule of Spain was conceived as ‘ indecent ’ ingratitude , as a separatist rebellion . |
| 6 | Bankers ' deposits at the Bank of England are regarded as being as good as cash by the banks because they can be turned into cash without delay . |
| 7 | When the War Altar goes to battle the Horn of Sigismund is taken as well . |
| 8 | The promotion of Gaidar was seen as reassuring the West , prior to the Russian-US summit and the July G-7 meeting , that the Russian leadership was committed to its market economic reforms , notwithstanding the inclusion of ex-Soviet industrialists in the government in May [ see p. 38923 ] . |
| 9 | The action of Jesus is seen as fulfilling Messianic prophecy : |
| 10 | It may be that the subsequent Treaty of Paris was viewed as constituting written acceptance by Danzig of Poland 's rights , and its corresponding duty to accept them . |
| 11 | Their ports and forts in the Spice Islands or the West Indies or the West Coast of Africa were intended as supply bases for shipping and not as the starting point for territorial expansion . |
| 12 | You will notice on the printed sheet that Ashbone and Wallis of Twitchit are named as goalkeeper and centre-half for Dorning , and that the Saliki twins of Dorning are named as the Twitchit substitutes . |
| 13 | While most western languages have subject , verb , object , others in the east of Europe are described as free . |
| 14 | Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough told NME the band 's November tour of Europe was abandoned as it clashed with the birth of guitarist Mark Day 's first child , despite rumours that Shaun Ryder 's drug problems are to blame . |
| 15 | FROM the earliest days of European conquest in the Pacific , the people on the island of Bougainville were regarded as stubborn and easily provoked . |
| 16 | Evidence that needle exchange programmes play a vital role in limiting the spread of HIV was dismissed as irrelevant to the American situation , and federal regulations barred further research into the issue . |
| 17 | In the 1150s Bishop Henry of Winchester was described as buying up statues all over Rome which he had shipped back to England . |
| 18 | A fire-bombing in 1983 led to the deaths of six members of the Doyle family , whose house in the Ruchazie area of Glasgow was attacked as they slept . |
| 19 | Secondly , the absorptive capacity of OPEC was under-estimated as most member countries embarked on ambitious development programmes . |
| 20 | On 3 June , the fortress of Przemysl was retaken as the Germans thrust east toward Lemberg . |
| 21 | Although only Nicaragua and the United States were parties to the original litigation , the United States claimed that its actions in and against Nicaragua were justified as collective self-defence of the territorial integrity and political independence of those third States , in particular of El Salvador . |
| 22 | Every region has its own methods of administering the system , and those of a huge area like Strathclyde are seen as being particularly inappropriate for an island community like Orkney . |
| 23 | Dr Paul Altmann of the Kidney Unit at the London Hospital in Whitechapel is reported as saying : ‘ It is when you are absorbing aluminium over many years that it is potentially damaging . |
| 24 | By the morning of the 27th the Aberdeen area had received 10cm ( 4in ) of snow and many roads in Grampian were blocked as strong winds exacerbated the situation . |
| 25 | In paragraph 2.2 he reminds everybody that in his first report ’ the state of policing in Derbyshire was described as mixed but all too often one of deterioration in infrastructure and morale . ' |
| 26 | So where public house premises in England were sold as " fully licensed " whereas the licence was a six-day licence , the court held that the vendor could not enforce specific performance : Fraser v. Pugsley ( 1920 ) 37 T.L.R. 87 . |
| 27 | A referendum on self-government held on March 21 in Tatarstan was seen as posing a potential challenge to the integrity of the Russian Federation . |
| 28 | The meeting in Minsk was described as intended to prevent the splitting apart of the Slav republics in the conditions of the Soviet Union 's disintegration . |
| 29 | Aid workers in Freetown were quoted as estimating that between 3,000 and 5,000 Sierra Leonean civilians and Liberian refugees had been killed by the NPFL since incursions began in March [ see p. 38136 ] , and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva was quoted on May 4 as saying that 10,000 people had fled from the border area . |
| 30 | The Mill Yard , the derelict former mill and the associated mill pond in Scorton were mentioned as examples of what should not be allowed to happen . |