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

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1 However , heterologous telomeric DNAs exhibit a broad spectrum of activity in their ability to be recognized as functional telomeres in vivo .
2 Before this Board the commissioner advanced two main submissions , namely : ( 1 ) that the business of the bank was one and indivisible since all the profit earning operations were directed from Hong Kong by staff therein employed , no overseas branch of the bank was involved and the funds employed in the purchase of the certificates of deposit arose from the carrying on of the business in Hong Kong ; and ( 2 ) that in any event , even if the sale and purchase of certificates of deposit failed to be treated as separate operations , nevertheless the profits from these operations arose in Hong Kong .
3 It takes its cue from other kinds of liberation , and rests the call for Animal Liberation on the recognition of the rights of nonhuman animals , including in particular their right not to be treated as mere means to human ends .
4 We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do .
5 Private customers are typically individuals and small companies who are not acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; non-private customers are , typically , " ordinary business investors " but also include expert private customers who agree to be treated as non-private customers .
6 The main categories of non-private customer are : ( 1 ) Ordinary business investors ( see page 36 below ) ; ( 2 ) Individuals who are acting in the course of carrying on investment business ; ( 3 ) Expert private customers ( whether individuals or small business investors ) who have agreed to be treated as non-private customers ( see page 37 below ) ; ( 4 ) Small business investors who : ( a ) are acting in the course of carrying on investment business , or ( b ) the firm reasonably believes are ordinary business investors ; or ( c ) are trade customers ( see page 38 below ) in relation to the transaction concerned ( who are technically treated as ordinary business investors ) .
7 Such sums may , of course , be specifically agreed to be treated as additional capital contributions , though in practice that possibility is unlikely to have been discussed , and it would certainly be a rather haphazard method of raising finance .
8 Instead ‘ acquisition provisions ’ will have to be treated as above-the-line exceptional items , hitting pre-tax profits and earnings per share .
9 [ Children ] … love to be treated as Rational Creatures sooner than is imagined … [ by which ] …
10 Potential customers are to be treated as actual customers .
11 In his Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina ( 1615 ) , Galileo argued that the language of the Bible had been accommodated to the minds of the uneducated , with the consequence that texts that superficially implied a stationary earth and a moving sun were not to be treated as literal scientific descriptions .
12 This Order , which is now in force , specifies that various building society resources which appear in annual accounts or accounting records are to be treated as capital resources to be aggregated with reserves for the purpose of the first criterion of prudent management .
13 Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ?
14 Hence the words man , mankind , humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms .
15 Were the parents of Dronfield to be treated as naughty boys and girls , or were they to be treated as intelligent working people ?
16 We are making arrangements with Forces charities for gifts to be treated as charitable donations .
17 Similarly , aberrant sexual behaviour was more likely to be treated as organic malfunction in middle class women and insanity in working class women .
18 The goal of psychoanalysis was the development of a new set of techniques for use in psychiatry , and in this context dreams tended to be treated as neurotic symptoms rather than as a normal aspect of experience .
19 We must now change gear somewhat , and ask what it would take for such relationships to be treated as satisfactory explanations .
20 As many fonts also have Semi or Demi , not to mention Extra and Heavy versions these still need to be kept as multiple families , so reducing the number of unique ID numbers .
21 Core and optional units do not have to be studied as discrete units or in a set order .
22 Bleuler proposed that most fundamental in schizophrenia is the loosening that occurs in associative thought , later to be studied as overinclusive thinking .
23 I mean if one can use a slightly awkward word like ‘ policing ’ , and I think there is a sense that none of us want to be acting as substitute parents and , you know , policing student behaviour in a way that suggests that they 're not yet fully mature .
24 News from missionaries , investigative visits and subsequent writing on the West Indies by Charles Stuart , Joseph Sturge and others provided the kind of detail which permitted attacks on the operation of the system as too little different from slavery to be supported as substantial progress .
25 So we recommend that advance notification of commission should come to be accepted as good trading practice .
26 Like judo , both taekwondo and karate seem likely to be accepted as Olympic sports .
27 Inevitably , this is likely to be perceived as gloomy news for those concerned with therapy and teaching .
28 Dissociated from each other , the various topics were likely to be perceived as fragmentary accounts of practical and procedural matters .
29 On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks .
30 Thus , fur skins are not to be regarded as agricultural products , since they do not appear in Annex II , and therefore normal competition rules apply ( see the Hudson 's Bay case study pp. 208 — 12 ) .
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