Example sentences of "[verb] as [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There we we when we went to Italy last year it was er what I would describe as being fairly warm |
| 2 | Regretfully , this weekend has had to be cancelled as is now living in Malaysia and is unable to fulfil her commitment . |
| 3 | It is emitted by electrons and positrons as they are guided by magnets on curved paths round synchrotrons , or storage rings as are often used today ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 305 ) . |
| 4 | The homoeopathic potencies , being structured water polymers , can be visualized as being more powerful than the random water polymers present in the body fluids . |
| 5 | The proposals were attacked as being too weak and vague , with only the minimum legal protection given to sites . |
| 6 | The attitudes of colleagues were reported as being overwhelmingly good , although a few people mentioned a certain lack of understanding , saying that their colleagues tended to forget or deny that they were disabled , which could create difficulties . |
| 7 | Gastrectomy is not devoid of complications , mortality has been reported as being as high as 16% and there is a high incidence of short and long term complications after surgery . |
| 8 | For Hans Frank , the Führer had been ‘ a sort of superman ’ in whom he had believed ‘ without reservation ’ and whom he regarded as being right ‘ in all decisive matters ’ . |
| 9 | It can be administered to children between the ages of 4 and 13 years , and is recommended as being particularly suitable for children suffering from specific language disorders , deafness , mental retardation and cerebral palsy . |
| 10 | This first period then must be considered as being completely ‘ godless ’ in so far as it would be able to provide any kind of being that could fulfil the human need for a ‘ god ’ . |
| 11 | I make no apologies for concentrating on issues which in environmental terms could be considered as being relatively minor compared with some of the major problems facing us today . |
| 12 | There is a possibility that War on Want should be considered as being relatively high on our list of people we would be willing to affiliate with . |
| 13 | Mr Hunte conferred subsequently with other ICC officials , principally Sir Colin Cowdrey , the chairman , and drew up penalties which were widely considered as being too mild . |
| 14 | ‘ As a driver who is generally considered as being more level-headed than most , I want to know whether there is any danger of me being banned for two months if I have an accident here at Phoenix . |
| 15 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 16 | One of the criticism 's frequently directed at anthropological methods of inquiry is that they cause cultures to be presented as being essentially static . |
| 17 | Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect , and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends . |
| 18 | She must have been noticed as being very different from the local ladies who were either young girls dressed tidily but poorly , or older women in black . |
| 19 | Ten have been moved to other jobs , including the senior signalman , Mr Brian Hemingway , who was named as being directly responsible for the faulty wiring at Clapham Junction . |
| 20 | He began to take a liking to John Lydon , who beneath the carefully cultivated exterior of ennui , Branson recognised as being extremely bright , ‘ if rather lazy ’ . |
| 21 | The ‘ body part ’ reading therefore escapes being given a penalty point , and is accepted as being referentially more successful ( see Carter 1987a for a fuller discussion ) . |
| 22 | Often an arrangement is accepted as being faster , more cost-effective and more humane . |
| 23 | Though not all his points are equally well taken , there can be no doubt that he is right in his basic assertion that the Kanunname is shot through with anachronisms suggesting sixteenth-century alterations and additions and that any provision of it must be treated with reserve and checked against other sources before being accepted as being genuinely of the time of Mehmed II . |
| 24 | The incubation period for type A hepatitis was accepted as being much shorter than those for serum hepatitis , but research into either form of hepatitis was hampered by an inability to identify the causative agent . |
| 25 | These results are based on considerably expanded sample sizes so may be accepted as being more representative of the expected performance within each domain . |
| 26 | What I would see this policy as doing would be simply to bring an element of restraint er which er would be formulated in way in which it would within the local plans so that tight boundaries would be drawn around settlements , the rest of the land would be designated as under this policy as E two land and the debate as to whether the extent of that land was necessary or not would be negated because it would be subsumed as being there simply er meeting the strategic policy . |
| 27 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 28 | But if interference effects do indeed operate at retrieval rather than on the formation of the CS-US association , it should be possible to show that an apparently weak association formed after conditioning with a pre-exposed stimulus can be revealed as being perfectly strong in appropriate conditions of testing . |
| 29 | And and and quite honestly the parts of the organization they were going to I do n't perceive as being any more secure . |
| 30 | Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back . |