Example sentences of "[noun] [am/are] [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 Institutions are viewed as expressions of collective purposes which maintain vitality so long as they are able to maintain a clear sense of purpose .
2 Advertisements sent to relevant European institutions are exempt because those institutions are treated as Art 9(3) experts in relation to investment advertisements relating to activities falling within their home-regulated business ( see para 44 of Sched 10 to the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) .
3 Does the Minister accept that when universities and other educational institutions are used as centres for terrorist activity .
4 I know that , legally , a person must be qualified to call him/herself a nurse , but all nursing and health care assistant vacancies are classified as nursing posts .
5 The following notes are intended as an additional guide for new students :
6 He distributes dollar bills to his supporters and these notes are kept as talismans to ward off evil .
7 Married women who provide security for their husband 's debts are treated as a special protected class of sureties .
8 Actions and objects are treated as signs that in certain situations form meaningful structures — myths .
9 Objects are analysed as myths which provide artificial resolutions to real contradictions in society .
10 And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks .
11 How is it possible for a creature to form means — end plans for reaching a desired object , plans within which other objects are represented as instruments to the overall end ?
12 For the lay congregation , scriptural accounts are regarded as literal history , a self-contained story no less true for being divorced from an historical context .
13 The notion of monotonicity does not mean anything if states are portrayed as terms .
14 Large numbers of vills which are now still in existence are described as ‘ waste ’ in Domesday Book ( 1086 ) .
15 Originating from an initiative by the Lothian Headteachers Association and named after Robert Reid , a past headmaster in Lothian , the fellowships are offered as secondments for a term by the Region .
16 The thinnest crusts are known as desert varnish .
17 Legionellae in the enviroment are found as parasites of protozoa in which intracellular multiplication can take place .
18 Essences are used as a periodic treatment ; either once a week or daily for two weeks with a three to four week interval before resuming again .
19 However , attached lean-to garages are treated as home extensions , and must have full Building Regulations approval , especially as far as fire precautions are concerned .
20 Secondly , library skills are seen as part of a group of several related skills , suggesting that library skills should not be taught in isolation from study skills , learning skills and communication skills .
21 Five core skills are included as a compulsory part of all the general SVQs :
22 Most improtant is that homeworkers are easily disposed of ‘ Outworkers are used as a buffer against market fluctuations , particularly in the manufacturing sectors ’ said the Employment Gazette blandly .
23 Pluralists actually define British politics as public policy-making , and so they see politics as somehow " explained " once they tell us how those policies are made as a result of the activities of the various interested groups .
24 Child care policies are seen as part of a structure of political and economic relations in which dominant groups control subordinate and , in particular , deviant groups by a range of sanctions .
25 Ideology , principles and policies are used as instruments to achieve his objectives .
26 Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software .
27 The enforcement of Amhara supremacy over other nationalities and the absence of a democratic machinery for instituting change are given as the main reasons why the Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) started an armed struggle in 1975 .
28 The gases solidify between 25K and 120K , so liquid helium or liquid hydrogen are used as refrigerants to prepare a solid matrix .
29 the shareholders are acting as a group ( eg each has agreed to sell his or her shares if all the others also agree to sell ) ; and
30 These cottages ( palheiros ) are now preserved in Santana , and many are still lived in — even the public toilets are disguised as a thatched cottage .
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