Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unclear whether the restoration would be recognized as constitutionally valid by the USSR authorities by their giving the Crimea a seat on the Federation Council ( a recent spate of autonomous regions ' and districts ' unilaterally proclaiming themselves ASSRs , and indeed of ASSRs ' proclaiming themselves full republics , had so far gone unrecognized — see pp. 37664 ; 37788 ) . |
| 2 | Adding new levies to fuel and power bills could be justified as environmentally friendly following the trend set in the US by President Clinton , and European Community plans to tax consumption that contributes towards global warming . |
| 3 | Here , it is necessary to distinguish between those conditions which may be regarded as universally relevant to the creation of a nation state , and those which are specific to a particular historical period . |
| 4 | By contrast , only about one-third of those recently buying on credit gave reasons which could be regarded as positively favourable . |
| 5 | It would seem to follow that unconscious motivation should be regarded as similarly irrelevant where the complainant 's wishes are concerned . |
| 6 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 7 | A ( probably correct ) belief that anything foreign will be regarded as either irrelevant or incomprehensible tends to reinforce parochial cross-fertilisation . |
| 8 | Some researchers suggest that hazards ( and emergencies that might result ) can be regarded as either natural or technological . |
| 9 | The information will be regarded as strictly confidential . |
| 10 | Stimuli A and B may be regarded as physically similar to the extent that they share common , c , elements . |
| 11 | Pluralist approaches argue , in contrast to Marxist approaches , that political power can and should be regarded as analytically distinct from economic power and that , in contrast to both elite and Marxist approaches , power is not concentrated in the hands of a single group , but relatively widely dispersed among a variety of groups and actors . |
| 12 | The increasing prominence of a cappella repertory in the choral institutions and the punctilious singing it requires , the marked prominence of younger singers with clearer , straighter voices ( principally men of pre-marital age , able to accept the low salaries offered to lay-clerks , albeit for brief periods only ) , the choirmasters ’ determination to raise standards by producing clearer textures in resonant buildings , the pervasive influence of boy trebles singing in high registers upon the whole choral sound these are factors that may all have their place in Taruskin 's stimulating argument but might also be regarded as vigorously independent of it . |
| 13 | I 've been very impressed by this boot , and at a price which , by present standards , has to be regarded as favourably competitive , I 'd recommend giving it a serious consideration . |
| 14 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 15 | Nationalism may thus be regarded as one form of ethnocentrism , in which cultural groups and their essential characteristics are defined by nationality and the cultural attributes of one or more nations may be regarded as inherently superior or inferior . |
| 16 | In an extensive review arising from IGCP 61 Kidson ( 1982 ) has concluded that the search for a universal eustatic curve should be regarded as over ; that regional differences in changes in the geoid mean that eustatic sea level curves can have only regional validity ; and that no part of the earth 's crust can be regarded as wholly stable . |
| 17 | Even so , Finnis remains committed to the proposition that in determining the concept of property the legislator 's choice can not be regarded as wholly unfettered or arbitrary . |
| 18 | Ecgberht may have received wide support in Kent and can not necessarily be regarded as wholly dependent on Offa for his kingship . |
| 19 | Once again , however , that is not to say that the public 's post-appeal awareness of the essential contents of the P.C.A. documents must be regarded as wholly immaterial to the balancing exercise this court is now required to perform and to that too we shall return . |
| 20 | This decision to specify that remote evolutionary event as ‘ good ’ must be regarded as utterly inviolable if there is to be any belief at all in basic ‘ goodness ’ . |
| 21 | In the 1950s , however , a particular kind of party system came to be regarded as utterly indispensable for the democratic control of government and that kind of party system was seen as well-established within British political practice . |
| 22 | Solicitors were found to be ‘ mainly on the make ’ or ‘ after your money ’ only less so than estate agents and to be regarded as reasonably honest . |
| 23 | Bearing in mind then that we have only half the story , we do have some indication of the social origins of about one-fifth of the sample , enough to be regarded as reasonably representative , |
| 24 | In considering what capacity for use the land has , relevant factors are the physical state of the land , its size , shape and surroundings , and the general patterns of land-uses in the area ; a use of relatively low value may be regarded as reasonably beneficial if such a use is common for similar land in the vicinity . ’ |
| 25 | Even if this number could be regarded as reasonably constant throughout the year , it is clear that the group of individuals exposed to the risk of dying is constantly changing . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) Neither the sales information in general , nor the information about the prices in particular , though of some value to a competitor , could reasonably be regarded as plainly secret or sensitive . |
| 27 | It would be unrealistic to assume that any assessment process based solely on one assessor 's judgement of another 's competence would always be regarded as completely valid and reliable . |
| 28 | However , small foci of tumour within an area of fibrosis may be undetectable on MRI , which means that the technique can not be regarded as completely reliable . |
| 29 | No pretence is made that this is an ideal code : indeed its paucity ( subs ( 8 ) for example has well nigh limitless potential for disputes as to what matters might be considered " ordinary " in the circumstances of a particular firm ) , and the reliance on dissolution as the means to resolve disputes , is the very reason why a properly drafted partnership agreement should be regarded as commercially indispensable . |
| 30 | Otherwise , the dismissal will , under special rules , be regarded as automatically unfair . |