Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | These items are all connected , and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other . |
| 2 | HP-style credit is really money lent to buy things — and credit agreements which left the lenders any rights to take possession of things bought under them should be seen as if those things had been bought on mortgage ( ‘ chattel mortgages ’ ) ; |
| 3 | Thus I might be glossed as " the person writing this sentence " ; you as " the addressee/participant in the discourse " , and so on . |
| 4 | There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed . |
| 5 | If I do n't win , I 'll be remembered as a bum |
| 6 | As he prepares to defend his reputation as well as what is inaccurately described as his undisputed world heavyweight title here tomorrow night against Riddick Bowe , he says : ‘ I realise that if I do n't win , I 'll be remembered as a bum . ’ |
| 7 | Whether I 'll be remembered as the most pompous , hard-to-get-along-with person they 've ever come across , because I stand up for what I believe in , or as the best athlete Britain 's ever had , which I think will be the case , I 'll always be remembered . ’ |
| 8 | Then I learned that if I did not make these payments I would be registered as a debtor for a period of six years . |
| 9 | If I do n't , I shall be arrested as a thief . ’ |
| 10 | I also hope that by paying tax I will be seen as what I am — a hardworking woman with a contribution to make to the moral and practical well-being of the country . |
| 11 | If I refuse , you and your colleagues will make sure that those notes of mine find their way to the KGB , and I will be exposed as a traitor . |
| 12 | ‘ Fifty years after my death I will be known as Gwen John 's brother ’ , he once wrote . |
| 13 | That way she can keep her puritanical role as keeper of the rules , and I can be represented as a rude anarchist . |
| 14 | An interesting type of instruction is the search or scan instruction , which may be seen as an iterated compare . |
| 15 | for example , a production manager may be stuck about ideas on how to improve factory efficiency but looking at a potted plant on the desk might suggest an improved working environment or employees being given more wages ( which may be seen as the equivalent of plant food ) . |
| 16 | The main food reserve of preparasitic nematode larvae , whether inside the egg shell or free-living , is lipid which may be seen as droplets in the lumen of the intestine ; the infectivity of these stages is often related to the amount present , in that larvae which have depleted their reserves are not as infective as those which still retain quantities of lipid . |
| 17 | The tension between innovative and conservative social mechanisms gives rise to a identifiable pattern of gradual diffusion , which may be represented as a historical shift from an older English-type pattern towards a pattern characteristic of modern Scots . |
| 18 | In addition to rot and insect attack which may be regarded as defects intrinsic to timber , problems also arise from the way timber elements of traditional buildings were assembled . |
| 19 | The Public Health Act of 1875 which may be regarded as a landmark in the advancement of local administration , gave to these Boards a code of powers in relation to public health and other matters , and established urban and rural sanitary authorities . |
| 20 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 21 | We may write this equation as unc Equation ( 5 ) is known as a parametric solution : since we have only n — s independent relations we can determine only n — s unknowns ( y ) in terms of the remaining s quantities ( z ) , which may be regarded as arbitrary parameters in the problem . |
| 22 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 23 | The percentage of effective votes , that is votes which clearly contributed to the election of a candidate and which may be regarded as a measure of voter satisfaction , throughout the Province remained unchanged at nearly 88% . |
| 24 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 25 | Where it is required to find the inverse Laplace transform of a function G(s) which may be expressed as the ratio of two polynomials , the problem is readily solved if the function can be split into partial fractions . |
| 26 | Such a field is commonly organized according to the principle of style , which may be defined as the use of certain limited dimensions upon which the variability of a domain is expressed . |
| 27 | I shall begin by concentrating on the ego , which may be defined as an agency of the personality differentiated from the wholly unconscious id by its responsibilities for the control of voluntary movement . |
| 28 | Dated at approximately 1430 it concerns a writ , ‘ Commission ad computa collectorem denorionum pro clausura villae ’ , which may be translated as a ‘ Commission for the hearing of the accounts of the collectors of money for the walling of a town ’ . |
| 29 | An afterthought , but one which may be taken as a portent of the future , was that Marks was not deterred by this initial failure . |
| 30 | A number of local societies publish booklets which may be classified as mini-dictionaries . |