Example sentences of "as [being] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former 11th tee box , on what is now the 10th fairway , was sufficiently far back from the road for the majority of golfers to carry the road with their second ( or third ! ) shots , although some doughty souls had a go for the green from the tee using the existing oak tree as being to the left of the ideal line ; ( 3 ) reconstructing the 13th afresh and ( 4 ) taking back the 14th tee box considerably as now . |
| 2 | Law and the legal system thus have to be seen in a differentiated way , no longer consistently structured by one uniform language and one common principle ( such as a hierarchy of values or a grundnorm ) , but as being to some extent split into a plurality of legal arenas ( Lowi , 1972 ) . |
| 3 | Specifically the Commission ( Audit Commission , 1983 , p. 9 ) sees its mission as being to : |
| 4 | It is not suggested however that directors ' duties , which are largely of judicial creation , are shaped by a theory that regards the purpose of the company and company law as being to further the public interest : it is not suggested that the ‘ social enterprise ’ perspective has influenced the development of the law . |
| 5 | Sir William Temple [ q.v. ] described his principal aims as being to ‘ secure the business of religion ’ and ‘ break the war with Holland ’ . |
| 6 | Some of the barbarian federates are known to have understood their loyalty as being to Valentinian ; his death , therefore , absolved them from any treaty with the Empire . |
| 7 | Many saw themselves as being above the grubby world of traditional politics and the professions , but often felt they could be like Richard Branson , the one-time hippy and promoter of alternative music who had joined the system and made a fortune . |
| 8 | The problem arises from the fact that the Civil Service sees itself as being above the party battle , with a political position of its own to defend ’ ( Benn , 1980 , p. 9 ) . |
| 9 | It was decided to include mainly the fourth year pupils that each school defined as being below average in attainment in mathematics , that is , the lowest 50 per cent of pupils rounded up to a complete set . |
| 10 | Next to him his wife , a tall rangy woman whom Sven Hjerson somehow saw even here as being astride a hunter , was leaning forward tapping the tips of the fingers of each hand one against the other . |
| 11 | RMI may be summed up rather simplistically but powerfully as being about the linking of clinical activity , data , for both volume and quality ( at individual patient and case-mix level ) to resource utilisation such that costs can be identified on a projective basis . |
| 12 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 13 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 14 | ‘ Both pitched themselves as being about change , the future rather than the status quo and the past , ’ says Dr King . |
| 15 | Thus while we could take 123 as being about the Poet 's constancy to his Friend , even though we have neither Thou nor He form referring to the Friend ( ‘ No , Time , thou shalt not boast that I do change/ … |
| 16 | The conception does not have to do , above all , with the statement 's having some otherwise specified content or subject-matter : that is , say , as being about thoughts , wants , or intentions , or conveying something about persons , minds , subjectivity , experience , or an inner world . |
| 17 | " Many people think of product support as being about repairs yet regular servicing is just as vital . |
| 18 | Birt added that his plans must be seen as being about ‘ greater freedom to operate , not less , greater initiative and enterprise within mutually agreed strategies . ’ |
| 19 | He described journalism as being about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable . |
| 20 | Until recently , the major division between living things was seen as being between animals and plants — a division based on the way the organism acquires energy . |
| 21 | The dependency theorists logically identified the main distinction as being between the national bourgeoisie , whose enterprises were based on local capital and the comprador bourgeoisie , whose interests were tied to foreign capital . |
| 22 | In men the signs and symptoms of gonorrhoea will appear after the incubation period , which is generally accepted as being between two and ten days . |
| 23 | This conflict , it would seem , has come about because , broadly speaking , the human race has divided in its response to the vital choice that has been introduced in the foregoing paragraphs , and which can best be summarised as being between the following two major propositions . |
| 24 | Split-half reliability for the expressive scales is reported as being between 0.84 and 0.96 , while for the comprehension scales it varies between 0.60 and 0.96 on Scale A , and between 0.46 and 0.95 on Scale B |
| 25 | One out-break in the Netherlands involed the consumption of raw herring which harboured the larvae in their muscles , but the most widespread endemic cycle is usually recognised as being between seals and cod , and for this reason there is pressure in some fishing communities for the reduction of seal populations in order to diminish the economic loss resulting from rejection of fish at inspection . |
| 26 | I referred earlier to coalescence as being as an extremely important factor . |
| 27 | It was described by Bishop Pontoppidan in the eighteenth century as being over a mile and a half in circumference ; he also said the sea all around it was darkened by the jets of ink it spat out . |
| 28 | The Council 's Charter did not formally require it to initiate , to enter policy arenas , to sponsor development , and in fact it prescribed the CNAA 's role in the ‘ diffusion and extension of the arts , sciences and technologies ’ as being through the approval of courses of study and the granting of awards . |
| 29 | What must have distinguished him as being beyond normal was his unconventionally high state of consciousness . |
| 30 | A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt . |