Example sentences of "[verb] as be of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tendency in commercial organisations to regard the personnel function as being of secondary importance compared to production , finance and marketing . |
| 2 | In 1879 , a Canadian called Russell , who had emigrated from Lanarkshire , devised a new design of curling stone which was accepted as being of greater efficiency and accuracy than any that had gone before . |
| 3 | The liber singularis of Paul from which this text is excerpted has long been suspected as being of post-classical origin . |
| 4 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 5 | It is crucial , therefore , that mathematics be recognised as being of less value if it is not based on a multicultural approach . |
| 6 | When falsificationism was introduced as an alternative to inductivism in the previous chapter , falsifications , that is , the failures of theories to stand up to observational and experimental tests , were portrayed as being of key importance . |
| 7 | The fact that many non specialist teachers will have experience of a change to enquiry methods in their own specialist subject area is acknowledged as being of considerable value . |
| 8 | Essentially they wanted a consultancy service from a social worker who was basically a colleague sharing their frustrations and difficulties but also their joys and successes and recognising their own expertise and greater knowledge of detail ; a sounding-board off which to bounce ideas about how to solve a problem ; someone concerned about quality control , providing an inspectorial service so that the child 's interests could be safeguarded ( but this aspect they saw as being of prime importance at the approval and matching stage ) . |
| 9 | The State , albeit in an anti-metaphysical sense , was thus viewed as being of central importance . |
| 10 | Company capital may be viewed as being of three types , short term , medium term and long term . |
| 11 | Company capital may be viewed as being of three types , short term , medium term and long term . |
| 12 | The four areas identified as being of critical importance were : |
| 13 | In this view the natural — that is , biological — family is perceived as being of unique value to the child and as being , for the vast majority of children , the optimum context for their growth , upbringing and development . |
| 14 | It is one of the easiest measures for the government to control , but it has been frequently criticized as being of little use as an indicator of spending power in the economy since it excludes the most important component of money supply , namely bank deposits , and includes money in banks ' tills which is the money that banks need to keep in their tills as a ‘ float ’ . |
| 15 | His teachings were regarded as being of such importance that they are used unaltered to this day at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna . |
| 16 | In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts . |
| 17 | Expeditions led by a king were regarded as being of greater importance and were invariably larger than those led by others , however exalted in rank a royal lieutenant might be . |
| 18 | Language understanding is generally regarded as being of greater importance than generation , since understanding requires the recognition of many paraphrases for the same command or information , whereas generation may be satisfied with the production of just one . |
| 19 | All macro-level features which can not be made intelligible in this way are regarded as being of secondary importance to the outcome of the story . |
| 20 | The matters regarded as being of common interest under this title are listed in Article K.1 : |
| 21 | As hon. Members may or may not recall , Conservative Members had a free vote , a conscience vote , because the Bill was regarded as being of sufficient importance to require people to make up their own minds . |
| 22 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 23 | The growth of institutional investment is regarded as being of particular significance in this respect . |
| 24 | The implications of this paper could be regarded as being of considerable significance and must , therefore , be viewed with caution until further corroborative evidence can be produced by large-scale excavation on the site of the ‘ villa ’ and a detailed ground survey of the large area of the suggested tempelbezirk . |
| 25 | The report nonetheless considers that some sort of control is necessary , and also favours the introduction of a legal pre-emption right on works of art regarded as being of national importance , and which risk leaving the country . |
| 26 | Monitoring of the state of and the changes in the environment is now universally recognized as being of profound importance to mankind ( Tickell 1986 , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 28 | Built in 1823 , the crescent shaped hospital is listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 29 | Four of them are in cities of what you might regard as being of particular interest — Tripoli , Beirut , Damascus and Baghdad . ’ |
| 30 | Kathleen Armstrong , 13 , of Queensland , South Shields , and Jeanie Ryder , 13 , of Allanville , Camperdown , Northumberland were born in Zambia and are described as being of mixed-race appearance . |