Example sentences of "[vb pp] as be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | It is not always reported as being in exactly the same location , although recent reports seem to suggest that it is not now capable of the movement which it once , extraordinarily , may have demonstrated . |
| 3 | It is reported as being in excellent condition . |
| 4 | It is true that it has been forecast as being upon us for a long time , but things are now really moving in some areas . |
| 5 | For reasons of simplicity ( and ornithological necessity ) the whole of Chichester Harbour is considered as being within Sussex for the purpose of wildfowl and wader counts . |
| 6 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
| 7 | As the title indicates , life is presented as being like a game of hopscotch , the object being to find a way to the square of ultimate reality . |
| 8 | Indeed , anything could be proclaimed as being against state interest . |
| 9 | In 1879 , a Canadian called Russell , who had emigrated from Lanarkshire , devised a new design of curling stone which was accepted as being of greater efficiency and accuracy than any that had gone before . |
| 10 | ’ The IoT examination is widely accepted as being of a uniquely high standard , and the revised syllabus for 1994 , incorporating a new paper on Tax Ethics and Administration , will ensure that the IoT examination retains its relevance for the future . |
| 11 | Whereas in art and design the CNAA was negotiating with an established , parallel validating body and with institutions operating courses accepted as being of degree standard , in the creative and performing arts it was moving further into complicated and confused territory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | While relapses in a chronic schizophrenic patient are accepted as being outside the patient 's own control , relapse in a chronic anorexic patient is often met by anger and frustration . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is still disputed where exactly the dome based upon pendentives originated , but its adoption for use in Christian churches is now accepted as being from eastern influence not , as was originally thought , from Imperial Rome . |
| 16 | When such ‘ dispositive ’ or ‘ objective ’ regimes were accepted as being in the general public interest they were said to be binding erga omnes . |
| 17 | During the case , a leading local politician and campaigner against prostitutes and strip joints was forced to resign after his name was revealed as being on the list . |
| 18 | The liber singularis of Paul from which this text is excerpted has long been suspected as being of post-classical origin . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | Thus disproportionality was seen as being of a different order to that of merely being a disproportionality between individual branches of industry ( as , for instance , Hilferding suggested ) . |
| 22 | Economic and social factors now loom large , and can be seen as being of greater importance than purely land use matters , though the courts would not necessarily accept such a line of reasoning ( as , for instance , when Lord Widgery held that the London Borough of Hillingdon could not impose a condition that the occupants of a private housing development should be people on the council 's waiting list ) . |
| 23 | And finally , there is still ignorant and cruel prejudice against people with HIV , and against people who are misguidedly seen as being at ‘ high risk ’ of having HIV : |
| 24 | With its comparatively meagre resources , adult education might be seen as being at a disadvantage when catering for adults with special educational needs but , in reality , it has some features which enhance its capacity to respond . |
| 25 | A similar analysis comes from Harvey , although the class alliances are here seen as being at national or regional levels . |
| 26 | These feelings must be taken into account if the common interests of both the producer and the consumer are not to be seen as being in conflict . |
| 27 | In this approach , proposed by Kahn in 1976 , each trade union is seen as being in competition with other trade unions for bigger and bigger wage increases in an attempt to achieve and maintain a higher position in the wages ‘ league table ’ . |
| 28 | The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast can be seen as being in the process of fulfilment . |
| 29 | We will also be more prepared ( though by no means certain ) to comply with personal constraints under two conditions : that the constraints are seen as being in the service of some greater ‘ good ’ and that they are seen as operating justly and fairly . |
| 30 | This scenario seems to apply to the position in The Netherlands , otherwise seen as being in the forefront of community care . |