Example sentences of "would [adv] be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rather be seen as a big brother than a juicy sex symbol . |
| 2 | I 'd rather be remembered as a capitalist who left his children something . ’ |
| 3 | The introduction of the national language and literature at Oxbridge was seen ( at least to begin with ) as a broadening and rejuvenation of the " literary " curriculum which would thereby be sustained as a foundation for more specialized study . |
| 4 | Could my service assume that any minutes would only be distributed as ‘ Top Secret ’ ? ’ |
| 5 | At a congress on May 26 , 1990 , the Left Party-Communists ( Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna — VpK ) voted by 136 votes to 133 to drop the word communist from its name ; it would henceforth be known as the Left Party . |
| 6 | The new category of licence would not be treated as a Part IV Licence except that the question of there already being sufficient licensed premises in the area would not be a factor for consideration in an application for a cafe-style licence . |
| 7 | But it was generally thought that the disposal of a children 's hearing would not be treated as a conviction . |
| 8 | ‘ In my view toys made and donated for fêtes and bazaars would not be defined as ‘ course of business ’ . |
| 9 | Feminist ideas are interrelated with philosophical ideas , but most feminist writing would not be recognised as ‘ philosophy ’ . |
| 10 | She had the majority support of her staff , but decided to leave , to ensure that the position of her husband Jose Azeredo Perdigao would not be jeopardised as the Foundation 's director . |
| 11 | Until he had undergone this religious initiation and probation he would not be regarded as a mature member of the Buddhist community . |
| 12 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 13 | In order to do this they had to be something very unlikely to happen or they would not be regarded as a novus actus interveniens . |
| 14 | A man such as Sir Guy fitzAlan would not be acting as the King 's messenger if Stephen was not confident of Father 's support . |
| 15 | In England , obtaining extracts of public records would not be seen as a judicial act , and the phrase ‘ other judicial acts ’ seems to remain a source of puzzlement . |
| 16 | The reader presumably can just as easily reconstruct an alternative context ( e.g. a description of the effects of marijuana on a Nativity play performance ) in which Mary would not be proposed as ‘ the topic of the discourse ’ . |
| 17 | On Sept. 11 the government announced that nine Kuwaiti members of the former Iraqi-backed regime would not be tried as collaborators . |
| 18 | Integrity would not be needed as a distinct political virtue in a utopian state . |
| 19 | In a statement issued on Sept. 10 Dominique Strauss-Kahn , the French Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade , said that the government could not formally announce its approval until a commercial agreement was finalized between Taiwan and the manufacturer of the Mirage , Dassault Aviation , but that " such a decision … would not be considered as an act of aggression against the People 's Republic of China " . |
| 20 | The first time she discovered the awful mess he had deliberately left in the kitchen , Beth was determined she would not be used as a skivvy . |
| 21 | More important , the CGLI argued that the latest proposal from the DES would break undertakings given to it in 1973 , when it agreed to provide the administrative services for TEC , that the latter would be confined to technician occupations and would not be used as an instrument of government policy . |
| 22 | According to Levi these " understandings " included the following : ( i ) Israel would not be obliged to accept the principle of " land for peace " ; ( ii ) the conference would have no power to make decisions and would not be used as a forum for appeal or discussion ; ( iii ) negotiations would be direct and without preconditions and would be aimed at a peace treaty ; ( iv ) the PLO would not be a partner to the process and the Palestinians would be represented by a joint delegation with Jordan ; ( v ) the UN observer at the conference would be silent and would be a personal representative of the UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar ; ( vi ) a representative of the European Communities ( EC ) would attend the opening session of the conference ; ( vii ) the USA would not allow a parallel conference to take place in the UN Security Council ; and ( viii ) the Soviet Union would renew full diplomatic ties with Israel before the start of a conference . |
| 23 | All except Bir Zeit ( on the West Bank ) had now opened or were preparing to open , but Bir Zeit had been informed at the end of August that its closure would be extended by three months for failing to ensure that its campus would not be used as a centre for anti-Israeli activity . |
| 24 | The sick person would not be described as chan in such instances , although the cause would be identified as directly related to the behaviour of the spouse . |
| 25 | Its meaning has begun to leak away through indiscriminate extensions beyond its original significance , extensions to cases which would normally be distinguished as cases of non-violence . |
| 26 | This would normally be regarded as a matter for economists and market-research specialists but behind the formidable array of evidence which they will generate are more fundamental questions of consumer preference , customer requirements and so on which are matters of human needs and prejudices . |
| 27 | Income would normally be treated as the recipient 's for tax purposes unless , that is , the donor has the right to get the asset back in the future or retains some control over it — in which case the donor would be liable for any tax . |
| 28 | Where rights ( at least in the strong sense in which he uses the term ) are in play , they operate like political trumps to defeat arguments founded on appeals to general social utility which would normally be accepted as a sufficient justification for overriding the wishes of an individual . |
| 29 | The elasticity of substitution would normally be defined as : which gives a fourth relation between the parameters when set equal to an external estimate of a . |
| 30 | He points out that the droppings which the plant will be using would normally be used as manure for spreading on fields . |