Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chiefs renege on the deal and she is stabbed as she tries to entice Odoff herself . |
| 2 | She is regarded as passive ( because the light does not have the intensity of the sun ) , and productive because it was believed that her shining , heavenly presence encouraged the growth of crops . |
| 3 | Eliza is portrayed as the most emotionally-balanced member of her family : she is loving as well as reasonable ( hence the original title of the book — ‘ Love and Reason ’ ) . |
| 4 | India has a number of diseases all her own , but if there is any suggestion that a foreign filly has been on the loose in a British stud she is rejected as unclean . |
| 5 | She is represented as accoutred with a shield and a trident , the traditional attributes of the Sea-god Neptune , to symbolize the fact that Britain 's strength depends on her sea-power as ‘ ruler of the waves ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ O ’ is enslaved by her lover Rene , yet she voluntarily submits ; she is represented as desiring subordination . |
| 7 | These assumptions will be detrimental to the black child if he or she is seen as being rescued from a life of misery . |
| 8 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
| 9 | Furthermore , aggregated data from this source presented to the House of Commons Select Committee on Health show that in approximately two thirds of births registered solely by the mother she is classified as unoccupied . |
| 10 | She is depicted as regal , beautiful , smart and successful . |
| 11 | What can be wrong , however , with fantasising , treating a woman as an object , if there is no connection between the fantasy and real life and if she is depicted as wanting to be treated this way ? |
| 12 | But in both these situations she is marked as unclean and is segregated , as in both cases she bleeds . |
| 13 | In the new year 's gift list of 1563 she is described as ‘ gentlewoman ’ and by her son , in 1595 , as ‘ sworne as one of the privye chamber to the Quenes Majestie ’ . |
| 14 | One important issue we have not considered is what happens to the individual once he or she is labelled as criminal . |
| 15 | It is defined as where n∼ and n∼ o are the refractive indices of the solution and the solvent and c is the concentration . |
| 16 | If it fails to do so it is condemned as being ‘ reformist ’ , or ‘ liberal ’ or even ‘ racist ’ . |
| 17 | This would , in fact , make an ideal introduction to the works , were it not for the fact that the packaging completely misleads the purchaser as to the playing order of the music : it is listed as ( in order ) — but the disc actually plays , so that there 's not a single track which corresponds with the one listed in the sleeve note ! |
| 18 | In our copy of Roget it is listed as follows You can be quite sure that if you examine all these numbered sections you will find every word in the English language that is remotely or closely equivalent to " jargon " . |
| 19 | It is listed as one of the world 's most endangered animals by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature . |
| 20 | It is calculated as being the price per 1 nominal at which the bond delivered has a yield to maturity of 9 per cent . |
| 21 | In the Domesday Book it is recorded as Caingeham , and as having a church and a priest . |
| 22 | Although its ultimate destruction has left no trace of the shrine 's location or size in the cathedral , it is recorded as being amply covered in gold and jewels . |
| 23 | Once again , plot is conceived of as compositional process , a bringing-into-being ; in other words it is conceived as something quite different from what one of the novel 's characters describes as a ‘ crappy mystical adventure story ’ . |
| 24 | Consequently , for She may own a Porsche , the following diagram can be proposed : The relation is the same for She may leave tomorrow except that the actualization of the infinitive 's event would be future ( if it is realized at all ) : The role of the modal auxiliaries is thus to specify the kind of potentiality which the potential event expressed by the infinitive has — possibility , probability , necessity , etc. — and the type of coincidence involved here is that between an event conceived as a potentiality and the form of potentiality which it is conceived as having , i.e. between two potentialities . |
| 25 | If there is surprise among outsiders at his rapid rise , within the bank it is seen as totally predictable . |
| 26 | It is seen as fundamentally important to ensuring good corporate governance . |
| 27 | As such it is seen as the first part of a larger work , to be completed by sequel works of a similar kind but which will be separately specified and will be covered by separate agreements in accordance with the terms and conditions laid down in Clause 14.1 . |
| 28 | They would also claim that such forgiveness is important in their lives for , without the forgiveness of God and each other , it is seen as impossible to be reconciled with God . |
| 29 | The domestically-oriented , nurturing talk of the miner 's wife , by contrast , is more likely to be taken as a product of her nature or her role than as a culturally-determined genre , and it is seen as something she shares with all other women . |
| 30 | We need to build an atmosphere which reverses the dominant value systems of those staffrooms in which it is seen as silly to be open , to want to have real conversations about education , and mature to be flip and dismissive . |