Example sentences of "as [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a Bill which sought to bring shipbuilding and repairing under public control but which did so , so far as repairing is concerned , by naming the particular firms affected , would be a ‘ hybrid ’ Bill . |
| 2 | ( f ) That daywork hours for such items as unloading are accurately checked . |
| 3 | This ceases to be possible where a document accepted as binding is bindingly interpreted by an external court . |
| 4 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |
| 5 | Using or taking as representing is a mental act , and it presupposes that the mind has the power of seeing generality in things , by seeing the class ( or form ) in the particular . |
| 6 | What we hear as squeaking is only the lower end of a sonic signal mostly beyond the range of our human ears . |
| 7 | As revealing is his observation that the rights of the workers in the separate producers ' societies were regarded as giving them their distinctive Co-operative character . |
| 8 | While the power of technology in such activities as conversing is exaggerated , the really important and exciting discoveries that are being made in Al , speculation aside , are not got across . |
| 9 | Intravenous acetylcysteine remains the antidote of choice in Britain for patients presenting to medical care early enough ; oral methionine , another precursor of hepatic glutathione , is probably inferior to acetylcysteine as vomiting is common after overdose and metabolism to glutathione may be impaired by increasing liver dysfunction . |
| 10 | To return to the enjoyment of looking at gibbons , it will be agreed that it is not an activity separate from looking at them , not an end to which looking is the means ( as looking is the end to which visiting the zoo is the means ) . |
| 11 | As long as lungeing is not over-used , it is an invaluable aid to training . |
| 12 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 13 | Car-sharing has received a recent boost since the petrol price increases ; owners are able to share petrol costs without endangering their insurance policies as long as sharing is on a non-profit basis . |
| 14 | But this was by no means a neurotic homosexuality : For them it was a means to a livelihood , as pimping is for others ’ ( p. 180 ) . |
| 15 | Provided the gift is at least £600 it will be regarded as having been paid net of basic rate tax . |
| 16 | Some see the conflict as having been crystallised by Proust , who wrote an attack on the critic Sainte-Beuve in 1908 ( though it was not published until 1954 ) . |
| 17 | The desert valley in which the complex is located , known as the Wadi Qelt , is referred to in ancient rabbinical sources as having been ‘ flooded by the blood ’ of the rebels . |
| 18 | COURAGE is the keyword this weekend , even among the nit-pickers who may have noted that the league sponsors ' official directory lists today 's third series of matches as having been played in midweek on 4 October . |
| 19 | He regards this somewhat gruelling routine as having been a vital part of his training . |
| 20 | The press have played a major part in popularizing spectator sport and sustaining interest in it , but it is misleading to think of professional football , for example , as having been created or manufactured by the media . |
| 21 | I look back upon this household as having been — after [ Edward ] — the strongest influence in my life . |
| 22 | We do not , Locke points out , punish a person for what he did when temporarily insane , and we speak of him as having been ‘ not himself ’ or ‘ beside himself ’ . |
| 23 | The connection between the visible and the tangible is conceived by Berkeley as having been set up by God . |
| 24 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 25 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 26 | The celibate woman was seen as having been freed from the ‘ curse of Eve ’ , to bear children in sorrow and to be under the domination of the male . |
| 27 | In a very small percentage of cases someone was described as having been a Free Presbyterian . |
| 28 | But the perambulating jury dismissed these proceedings as having been made under duress of Hugh Despenser , then Edward I 's Justice of the Forest . |
| 29 | She regarded herself as having been battered by uncontrollable forces , washed up in hostile , foreign waters against jagged rocks . |
| 30 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |