Example sentences of "as being [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 2 | Simply speaking , water is classified as being either acid , neutral or alkaline . |
| 3 | In one sense , the characterisation of the transaction as being either sale or exchange may be important because the remedy for defective performance in exchange is not for the price , but rather a claim for unliquidated damages for non delivery . |
| 4 | Scientific rationality is reflected in the perception of mathematics in our society as being either right or wrong . |
| 5 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 6 | The data common to all reviews can be discounted as being neither criticism nor evaluation . |
| 7 | Societies have an extraordinary capacity either to consider objects as having attributes which may not appear as evident to outsiders , or else altogether to ignore attributes which would have appeared to those same outsiders as being inextricably part of that object . |
| 8 | While certainly not denying the potential influence of certain characteristics of cities ( though they would dispute some , and point to others as being more effects than causes of urban decline ) , they argue that these factors have to be considered in the light of what is happening to industry itself . |
| 9 | This is plausible enough but falls down , I submit , when the work by its very nature is of such a character that failure to adapt might be construed as being more reality orientated . |
| 10 | In his chapter , ‘ Building on the class reader ’ , Foggin echoes the views of many of the English teachers to whom I spoke when he describes his English teaching as being substantially class reader based for the reason that : |
| 11 | It would be wrong to conceive of these two ‘ orders ’ as being respectively University and Ministry based , for both types of information may be collected at a number of levels including school and teacher 's centre level . |
| 12 | Hare wondered whether geographers could get away with posing as being simultaneously earth scientists and social scientists and this is what did happen in the ensuing decade . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) " licence " is defined in s.139(1) as being any licence granted under the Act other than a seamen 's canteen licence . |