Example sentences of "as [being] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tend now to think of Classical bronze statuary , for example , as being covered with a fine green or deep brown patina , and moreover that this was their original state . |
| 2 | Friends whom Grahame made at Fowey and kept up with for life , the Purves family of Philadelphia , all believed in Fowey as the setting and the opening chapter as being inspired by a gentle row up to Golant one golden Summer in the early years of the century . |
| 3 | It was impossible to tell whether the thing she had surprisingly described as being shaped like a Greek alpha was still there or not . |
| 4 | In this dimension , therefore , the speech community can be envisaged as being shaped like a pyramid , with greater variability at the lower end and greater convergence ( or relative uniformity ) at the upper end . |
| 5 | The review of directors ' managerial decisions can be viewed as being motivated by a similar desire to ensure that directors exercise their powers only in accordance with the will of their constituents ( the shareholders ) and that they are subjected to the controls often associated with the Rule of Law to prevent them from using their power arbitrarily . |
| 6 | Current ideas of the structure of water visualize it as being composed of a random network of molecules linked together by hydrogen bonds ( Figure 7 ) , some of which are strained or even broken , but with a general structure not unlike that which is found in ordinary ice , also known as hexagonal ice to distinguish it from its variant form , cubic ice , which is formed at lower temperatures . |
| 7 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 8 | Token bets had been made by a few on the opposing Southern team , so Rex was able to ‘ collect ’ from long time colleagues as well as being presented with a cheque b Mr Ellis . |
| 9 | Women , however , were still perceived as being made of a different metal and , in spite of Mill , their voting remained an absurd and scandalous project for many decades after ‘ manhood suffrage ’ became a reality . |
| 10 | Moreover I am not satisfied that the defendant 's application for rectification would not come under clause ( b ) as being made by a person who is aggrieved by an entry in the register . |
| 11 | They regarded the world as being based on a single live space-filling substance from which all things developed spontaneously by the interplay of opposed processes such as separation and combination or rarefaction and condensation . |
| 12 | A reading scheme could , for example , be produced by those experts who see reading as being based on a hierarchy of skills . |
| 13 | If the draftsman wishes to create a lease for a period that can not be made certain at the time of the demise the only way is to express it as being granted for a fixed term subject to a power to break at the expiry of the period . |
| 14 | The whole specimen might be regarded , on a molecular scale , as being cut from a number of sheets of paper , weakly glued together . |
| 15 | In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration . |
| 16 | The current shortage of both the SE/30 and IIcx machines is quoted as being caused by a larger than expected take-up in the corporate market . |
| 17 | It goes through four churches , a stone and a moat , as well as being followed by a road for much of its length . |
| 18 | It is difficult to resist the observation that in view of the anaemic definition of the offence , affray can not properly be characterised as being committed by a number of people fighting in public , even if that is the most commonly charged form of it . |
| 19 | Hence , the United States might be described as being oriented toward a mix of the empirical and the rationalist , albeit with the former being clearly the more dominant of the two . |
| 20 | The company 's brand may be recognized as being associated with a whole range of products with similar environmental usages and styles , such as kitchen utensils , office equipment etc . |
| 21 | Volkenstein ( 1959 ) draws the analogy with ferromagnetism and considers the transition from completely amorphous to bundle-like structure as being associated with a second-order transition , similar to the transition from the paramagnetic to the ferromagnetic state ( the Weiss theory of ferromagnetism ) . |
| 22 | A helpless approach to life and a low sense of self-esteem are two factors which have been suggested as being associated with a raised risk of depression following threatening life events ( see chapter 4 ) . |
| 23 | Arabel was once quoted as being terrified by a performance of Tchaikovsky 's Pathétique Symphony in Berlin so intense that she thought it would kill you . |
| 24 | I hope that the public understand that , in the event of a Labour Government , they can look forward to being milked by Labour councils that will levy high rates of their new tax — as well as being milked by a national Government through increased rates of income tax . |
| 25 | These assumptions will be detrimental to the black child if he or she is seen as being rescued from a life of misery . |
| 26 | In other words , the body plan of existing vertebrates is readily understood as being derived from a set of structures which , in a distant ancestor , were adaptations for a particular way of life . |
| 27 | Prototype theory sees entries in the mental dictionary as being centred on a representation of the prototypical member of the class to which the word belongs ; e.g. a robin may be seen as the prototypical bird . |
| 28 | But what is most striking is that by adopting the voice of the Psalm , Herbert is also adopting the voice of a king ( and a shepherd ) as the Psalm was presented as being authored by a divinely inspired King David . |
| 29 | However optimal control techniques can also be used to analyse the dynamic behaviour of economic systems as well as being used as a method for testing the validity of a model . |
| 30 | For the most part , therefore , they have conceived major political changes as being produced in a more autonomous way , and less abruptly , with the various stages merging into each other ; for example , in their accounts of the growth and consolidation of individual liberty , or of the development of modern democracy . |