Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been dismissed as a kitchen maid , she harnesses her poetry to her teapot . |
| 2 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 3 | But the proposed restrictions on the type and number of powered aircraft , flightpaths and hours of operation have already been dismissed as ‘ not strict enough ’ by a leading protester . |
| 4 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 5 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 6 | Knowles was replaced by Perry Christie , who had been dismissed as Minister of Tourism in 1984 [ see p.33401 ] and subsequently elected as an independent MP . |
| 7 | On Dec. 29 Kibaki , together with John Keen , a former Assistant in the Office of the President , and Eliud Mwamunga , who had been dismissed as Minister of Works , Housing and Physical Planning in 1988 [ see p. 36136 ] announced the launch on Jan. 2 of the Democratic Party . |
| 8 | Patterson had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Planning in December 1991 after a scandal involving tax waivers for an oil company [ see pp. 38670-71 ] . |
| 9 | On Sept. 9 it was announced that the only Romanian Cabinet official of Hungarian nationality , Deputy Minister of Culture Andro Horvath , had been dismissed as part of an efficiency drive . |
| 10 | Jagan , 75 , once a hardline Stalinist , had first led the PPP to an election victory in 1953 , in the pre-independence period , but had been dismissed as Leader of the House of Assembly , when the UK government suspended the Constitution in the face of perceived " communist subversion " [ see pp. 13152 ; 13177 ; 13239 ; 13523 ] . |
| 11 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 12 | Three of them are adults , but rumours that they may be Bosnian soldiers have been dismissed as irrelevent . |
| 13 | Complaints about the Middlesbrough mosque and procedures for funerals held there have been dismissed as a ‘ complete misunderstanding ’ by Muslim community leaders . |
| 14 | The incentives , promoted by Schools Minister and Darlington MP Michael Fallon , have been dismissed as ‘ a carrot ’ to persuade industry to subsidise state education . |
| 15 | It has also been examined as a potential animal feed . |
| 16 | The reliability and clinical applications of computerised image analysis measurement of bowel uptake of Tc-99m HMPAO labelled leucocytes has been examined as a measure of disease activity in Crohn 's disease . |
| 17 | It was a large , first-floor apartment which had been furnished as a suitable setting for an up-and-coming superstar . |
| 18 | Thousands of the films and publications have been incinerated as part of a year long clampdown on the trade . |
| 19 | Mkolongolo alleged in a press statement that the United States ambassador , Smith Hempstone , had been recalled as a result of " misleading information " given him by Muite [ see also p. 38136 ] . |
| 20 | Each a study in itself , with titles like ‘ No two feathers ’ , ‘ Butterflyman ’ , and ‘ Angel and the Dreamer ’ , they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music , wind harps and synthesisers . |
| 21 | Existing ESA payments are calculated as compensation for not intensifying production . |
| 22 | Since our ‘ dependent ’ variable is the length in days of the first spell of registered unemployment , all the income variables are calculated as one seventh of the weekly rates . |
| 23 | Parts of a day are calculated as one day . |
| 24 | Earnings can fluctuate quite widely from one year to the next , but if long-run earnings are calculated as a moving average of short-run earnings , this will be a much more stable measure . |
| 25 | As a result , five banks — Midland , Security Pacific National , Chemical Bank , Barclays Bank and Mitsubishi Finance Corporation — have been joined as respondents with the council . |
| 26 | For example , many people would classify nuns as holy and sincere , while Hell 's Angels are dismissed as troublemakers , drug-takers and wild drunks . |
| 27 | Hamburgers and disco biscuits are undercover terms for the rave drug Ecstasy , while royalty is cocaine and poor quality drugs are dismissed as flea powder . |
| 28 | Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering . |
| 29 | Moreover , if the purchaser wishes to rationalise the workforce he runs the risk of becoming liable for automatically unfair dismissals where employees are dismissed as a result of the transfer of the business . |
| 30 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |