Example sentences of "it be [adv] [verb] as [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is somehow seen as trying to soften the cross-examination of an alleged victim , and is somehow seen as more acceptable . ’ |
| 2 | It has won greater favour in the US than in Britain where it is generally regarded as conceding too much to a particular , and somewhat incoherent , philosophical system . |
| 3 | Although Reiter 's disease usually follows NGU in this country , in other parts of the world it is well recognized as following certain forms of dysentery . |
| 4 | It is often seen as having nothing to do with the ‘ real ’ world — that is , as a reflection of one 's experiences and perceptions quite independent of those of the dominant group . |
| 5 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 6 | When the draft report was issued in May , it was universally welcomed as heralding a major step forward in the way that UK listed companies should be run . |
| 7 | It was also seen as inflicting profound effects on individuals ' lives . |
| 8 | It seems clear then that the Formalist position on all these issues ( authors , reality and ideas ) is not just an arbitrary preference , but that it stems from the concepts of defamiliarisation and literariness , whose differential basis will always serve to define literature in opposition to the things that it was traditionally viewed as expressing . |
| 9 | Parliamentary and media responses to the Report varied greatly , although it was widely seen as making an important contribution to the debate about how to respond to the riots and prevent the outbreak of violence in the future . |
| 10 | It was widely regarded as presaging a new era of more co-operative meetings between the leaders of the two governments . |
| 11 | It was widely misinterpreted as suggesting that small firms were particularly important in the process of job generation . |
| 12 | It was precisely defined as comprising all of the three features : pain in the lower chest or upper abdomen , a tender spot ( or spots ) on the lower costal margin ( including the xiphoid ) ; reproduction of the pain by pressing on the spot . |
| 13 | One complication that we see raised with Samson Agonistes , is that a text 's success in fulfilling the conditions of its chosen genre , in this case classical tragedy , may help to render it unsuccessful in terms of the way it was originally envisaged as intervening aethestically in its contemporary history . |