Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one of them could be described as ordinary . |
| 2 | ‘ where two or more persons are jointly entitled to a deposit … each of them shall be treated as having a separate deposit of an amount produced by dividing the amount of the deposit to which they are jointly entitled by the number of persons who are so entitled . |
| 3 | They may be seen as lacking basic training which can be rectified by the intervention of psychiatrists , psychologists , social workers , probation workers or other similar welfare professionals . |
| 4 | Differentiation refers to the positivist assumption that there is something ( preferably measurably ) different about criminals ; they may be seen as differing from non-criminals in terms of their biological or psychological make-up , or in terms of their values , again according to the academic origins of the criminologist concerned . |
| 5 | This does not necessarily imply acceptance of these images since they may be seen as unacceptable in their own right . |
| 6 | They may be seen as obstructive when restraining rival groups of fans , but the venom and anger characteristic of , for instance , thwarted political demonstrators , is noticeably absent at most football matches . |
| 7 | In fact they may be seen as at the root of practically all marital and sexual dissonance . |
| 8 | Alternatively , they may be seen as relating to foreign investments which should be translated at the year-end ( the closing rate method ) . |
| 9 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
| 10 | Girls may be there simply because they are young and things are not working out at home or with their boyfriends , or they may be designated as " ESN " ( educationally sub-normal ) , or have had previous children that they have lost through negligence or ignorance . |
| 11 | In this respect , they may be regarded as following Gandhi 's suggestions and advice . |
| 12 | They may be regarded as having been , at central government level , ideologically inspired : that is , undertaken either on the view that the possibility of rescuing a failed , conventionally organised enterprise would serve to promote Socialism in a neo-Marxist version of it absolutely opposed to Capitalism , and that the occasion was one which must not be missed even though the odds against success were heavy ; or in a spirit of uncritical idealism , sure that the ideology guaranteed success , that the gloomy appraisal was therefore wrong and the distinction between co-operative means and socialist ends a carping irrelevance . |
| 13 | The report says home phone calls can be useful but only in high phone-ownership areas , and they may be regarded as intrusive . |
| 14 | In reality , the changes may be positive for the staff , but they may be perceived as negative ( there is also the possibility that change will be negative and resistance to change is therefore a positive thing ) . |
| 15 | They may be categorised as Marxist , like Althusser 's , as structuralist ( in some senses of the term ) , as functionalist , and so on . |
| 16 | Although they overlap with the matters discussed above , they may be characterised as having a more regulatory flavour , ensuring that the market operates according to predictable and consistent procedures , and offering a " level playing field " for participants . |
| 17 | Or even worse they may be misdescribed as vestigial bequests from our primate ancestry — yet another example of the naive reductionism which sometimes passes as orthodox science . |
| 18 | They may be taken as free-standing courses or as part of a programme of modules . |
| 19 | They may be carted as soon as they are lifted . |
| 20 | They may be described as clearing members , or members of the clearing house administered by LCH . |
| 21 | The way we touch , lift and support and the words which accompany actions all convey feelings to the person concerned : they may be experienced as hating or as loving even when the carer disclaims involvement . |
| 22 | If dare and need are not asserted as realities , then they must be conceived as mere potentialities , and since the infinitive also expresses a non-actual event in these uses , it must also be represented as a potentiality . |
| 23 | Articles 34–38 specify no exceptions to the pacta tertiis rule ; such exceptions must either be fitted into the Articles or they must be accepted as prescribing only the general framework of the law . |
| 24 | Before individual suppliers may submit tenders for orders from these kinds of customers , they must be accepted as capable and reliable . |
| 25 | They must be treated as adequate because they reflect the statutory provisions in regard to appeals by persons upon who intervention notices are served by S.I.B . |
| 26 | And to fulfil this role they must be seen as independent of the society they help to constitute . |
| 27 | They must be seen as inventing new rules for the future in accordance with their convictions about what is best for society as a whole , freed from any supposed rights flowing from consistency , but presenting these for unknown reasons in the false uniform of rules dug out of the past . |
| 28 | But in order for these activities to be meaningful , they must be understood as communicative processes between people , and the individuals concerned must be able to construct social contexts within which their reading and writing activities can have meaning . |
| 29 | This leads to the applicant 's second ground for supporting the judgment under appeal , namely that whatever the words of the Act may mean , they must be understood as qualified by a tacit exception , preserving the ancient right of silence in its particular manifestation of the immunity from being asked questions after charge , previously embodied in the Judges ' Rules and carried forward into paragraph 16.5 of Code C. |
| 30 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |