Example sentences of "[pron] is [verb] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more significant is the impression alluded to by both grammarians that the infinitive evokes a mere possibility here — something which is brushed aside as " impossible " , something which the speaker can not conceive as actually existing . |
| 2 | A substa substantial area of open land which is shown there as being within the inset of the village ? |
| 3 | Office equipment and vehicles are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation , which is provided so as to write-off those assets over their estimated useful lives , ranging from four to 15 years . |
| 4 | Work should therefore be rapid and finish in time for the Louvre 's exhibition of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ which is going ahead as scheduled at the end of September . |
| 5 | See also Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 ( insurance brokers ) , and also Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 : " … the character of a general medical practice is such that one who is employed therein as a medical assistant , necessarily acquires such a special and intimate knowledge of the patients of the business that the employers … are entitled to protect themselves against unfair competition on the servant 's part " , per Evershed J. |
| 6 | Tests revealed that the man — who is known only as ‘ John Smith ’ — could survive without injections of insulin . |
| 7 | In fact , those who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights tend to see the state in essentially " negative " terms : it is regarded as the only real threat to individual freedom and liberty ( apart from that posed by the collective activity of trade unions ) because freedom itself is defined negatively as simply involving an absence of public and legal restraint on individual action . |
| 8 | This Act embraces a vast number of persons holding public office of a specified sort ; it is amended regularly as new offices are created and persons appointed to them . |
| 9 | It is modified continuously as external data is received and transformed into information . |
| 10 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |
| 11 | In Durham and Yorkshire it is known locally as the Upper Magnesian Limestone ( comprising the Hartlepool and Roker Dolomites and the Concretionary Limestone ) and the Kirkham Abbey Formation , respectively ( Smith 1980 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ) . |
| 12 | In Durham it is known locally as the Seaham Formation and in Yorkshire as the Upper Magnesian Limestone ( Smith , 1980 ; Taylor and Colter 1975 ) . |
| 13 | The agent and artist do n't care what happens to the other 50p , whether it is spent either as the show 's costs or as the promoter 's profit . |
| 14 | ADDICTION to computer games is creating aggressive and anti-social tendencies among children , it is claimed today as teachers demand a campaign to alert parents to the potential dangers . |
| 15 | He is listed there as Jan Eeuworts and his name appears variously , including Ewottes , Eywooddes , and even possibly Suete . |
| 16 | When you push the chair down kerbs or ramps it is safest to go down backwards , as the patient might fall out of the chair if he is facing forwards as the chair tilts downwards . |
| 17 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |
| 18 | Police stand guard , not to keep people out but to ensure nothing is taken away as investigators sift through secret files , looking for evidence of official misdeeds . |
| 19 | To see this argument as somehow cancelling what went before is probably to interpret the pamphlet according to modern and anachronistic notions of authorial intention , character utterance , and textual unity ( all three notions privileging what is said finally as being more truthful than what went before ) . |
| 20 | ( This assumes the behaviourist position that what is experienced subjectively as thought and emotion is identical with the behaviour , incipient as neural process as well as overt as bodily movement , which objectively is perceived by the senses . ) |