Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] as " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Bearing in mind that all the women who appear are portrayed as homemakers of one kind or another , it is significant that on the occasions when potentially humorous situations emerge , women are the ‘ butt of the joke ’ on six of these occasions ( and Audrey as a potential one ) , despite the fact that there are fewer women overall . |
| 2 | Strangely , Shepherd seems to have shown little interest in the effects of the electric media ; indeed , his account of the present-day situation assumes an even tighter grip by the ‘ industrial world sense ’ , the system created by literacy and print being generalized as a ‘ symbolic-technological filter ’ which regulates the processes of communication vital to socialisation and the creation of consciousness ’ ( Shepherd 1982 : 149–50 ) . |
| 3 | So too are your gestures , and the overall message they give is known as body language . |
| 4 | Conversely , if developing countries dislike being used as illicit rubbish dumps , they must devote much more cash and effort to improving the quality of their own waste-disposal facilities , and preventing illegal dumping . |
| 5 | If your new drive is of a different make you could possibly find that which drive is configured as drive C : could be critical . |
| 6 | After all , it 's not much use being fingered as someone who 's going places if there 's nowhere to go . |
| 7 | A newer method is titration with mercuric nitrate in acid solution , diphenylcarbazone being used as indicator . |
| 8 | And the police patrol is seen as a further deterrent in a place where people are often at their most vulnerable . |
| 9 | What is more , we hate being used as political footballs by cynical politicians . |
| 10 | They admit that theology is meaningless to those outside the realm of faith ( 'faith' being interpreted as a direct transmission of knowledge to the individual , who acquires understanding on the basis of a kind of spiritual drip-feed connecting God with the believer ) . |
| 11 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 12 | ‘ Stephanie has what I think is known as an … infatuation for me . |
| 13 | ( These names are somewhat arbitrary ; different names are often used in political philosophy , and sometimes one of the virtues I distinguish is treated as a case of another . |
| 14 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 15 | Make is classified as a " direct control causation verb " , have as a " mediated control causation verb " and cause as a " noncontrol causation verb " . |
| 16 | And then , on the bottom of page sixteen and through on to seventeen is addressing the point that , also within the guideline , we have been asked , we 've been asked as a Committee , to look at the implications of finding up to a further two hundred and fifty thousand pounds ' worth of reductions . |
| 17 | You see at Banbury School our governing body erm has expressed itself clearly as against the tertiary education proposals as they were first put forward , and I am very pleased to have heard during the debate that they 've been amended as a result of quite a lot as a result of the discussion that has gone on . |
| 18 | With him , well for some reason he does n't like us , well , you say I was thinking , I 've been thinking as you know this is the sort of thing that I , gets on to my mind , but I was thinking to myself well really and truly we are so honest people ourselves , we do n't go round you know and screw sort of fiddling things , I suppose it comes to hard to us when we discover other people have |
| 19 | I suspect not but erm y'know sometimes it is conceptualised , even by the people who 've been victimised as a sort of two way process as as though they are partly responsible . |
| 20 | It 's sometimes the case when you look at adult survivors of child sex abuse that erm some of these physiological responses are detached from pleasure and experienced in a very ah traumatic and very de-humanising way so that y'know kind of having orgasms is n't pleasurable sometimes for people who 've been abused as children . |
| 21 | Now erm how have we got er I 've next thing on the handout is something I 've stuck on about the way in which erm er well it 's what I 've just covered about the the way in which some sorts of therapies for people who 've been abused as children tend to embody rather heterosexist assumptions which has been stated by Jenny Kissinger for example . |
| 22 | Erm er also um I 've stuck in a note about the difficulty in interpreting the consequences of abuse erm because of the way in which um you may find , as did , looking at people who 've been abused as children er versus people who have n't . |
| 23 | Two men have been killed by undercover troops in Northern Ireland today , and they 've been named as top I R A hit man and former Sinn Fein coun , and a former Sinn Fein councillor . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been doing as you suggested the other day — putting the patients first . ’ |
| 25 | But , in terms of the the actual vision screening itself erm , we 've iden , those people who 've been identified as V D U , V D U users ' we 've had about five hundred and fifty replies to that , from the V D U , V D U , users ' . |
| 26 | Yeah there 's the price it 's size it 's this product you know the reason we 're phone you because you 've been identified as by the estate agent or medical practice or school as being very suitable and they would very much like you to support this . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been coming as a mere visitor . |
| 28 | Have you ever felt you 've been judged as a woman first and a musician second ? |
| 29 | Some of us resent being regarded as ‘ one of the herd ’ . |
| 30 | Eight properties have been completed as part of the first renovation phase . |