Example sentences of "[verb] as [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Regretfully , this weekend has had to be cancelled as is now living in Malaysia and is unable to fulfil her commitment . |
| 2 | It is emitted by electrons and positrons as they are guided by magnets on curved paths round synchrotrons , or storage rings as are often used today ( New Scientist , vol 87 , p 305 ) . |
| 3 | Here belief in such portents is presented as being highly suspect , and possibly an excuse for more sordid political ends . |
| 4 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 5 | Applying the opposite rudder can not possibly cause the spin to reverse as is sometimes stated , unless the pilot is keeping the stick right back . |
| 6 | If the tendency towards crime is not seen as being already determined at the point of conception through the genes we inherit , then the obvious conclusion is that it must be subsequently acquired in some way . |
| 7 | If then , as I have already suggested we must , we challenge the formal distinctions of the analytical method , Dicey can be seen as being deeply rooted within this tradition of thought . |
| 8 | Individuals ' 'ego ideals ' are seen as being systematically transferred to charismatic leader figures , organisations and the values ( including those of family , church and patriarchal authority ) which are no less than a displaced version of the all-providing ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ figure of childhood . |
| 9 | Eysenck claims that criminals tend to rate highly on two personality characteristics — extroversion and neuroticism — both of which he sees as being predominantly inherited . |
| 10 | Elsewhere , particularly in sitcoms , older people are crudely portrayed as being either enfeebled , vague and forgetful or , at the other extreme , cantankerous battle axes . |
| 11 | It was symptomatic that when the judges were excluded from membership of the area consultative committees in the formative stages by a ruling by Lane , that it was the Circuit or courts administrators from the Lord Chancellor 's Department who were identified as being best placed to act as chairmen , rather than Home Office officials who were unable to draw on any existing regional organization . |
| 12 | The campaign is identified as being primarily directed at the government , yet , as mentioned , local authorities have a role to play . |
| 13 | However , in Finkelhor 's review , several factors emerged as being consistently associated with higher risk of sexual abuse : when a child lives without one of the biological parents ; when the mother is unavailable to the child either as a result of employment outside the home or disability and illness ; when a child reports that the parents ' marriage is unhappy or conflictual ; when the child reports having a poor relationship with the parents or being subject to extremely punitive discipline or child abuse ; when the child reports having a step-father . |
| 14 | That land you obviously regard as being properly included within the inset ? |
| 15 | The ultimate sanction may be for them to sack the person whom they regard as being mainly to blame . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Commonly , there are covariations of two or more measures , such as mean size and sorting , which Griffiths ( 1967 ) illustrated as being hydraulically controlled , so that in all environments the best sorted sediments had their mean sizes in the fine sand category . |
| 18 | After the talks Kaifu said on March 3 that he would make " maximum efforts " to accelerate the structural reform of the Japanese economy in such a way as to improve market access for foreign traders while also improving the quality of life for Japanese consumers — a phrasing which was regarded as being carefully chosen so as not to imply unconditional concessions to the United States . |
| 19 | Findings based on very limited evidence can not be regarded as being firmly established and need to be verified by means of additional observations and cases . |
| 20 | Sometimes , as in Kant 's theory , the idea of irreducibility of spatio-temporal relations is defended on general epistemological grounds and is regarded as being inseparably interlinked with the idea of an all-embracing unitary space . " |
| 21 | Chomsky has claimed that the principles underlying the structure of language are so specific and so highly articulated that they must be regarded as being biologically determined ; that is , as constituting part of what we call " human nature " and as being genetically transmitted from parents to children . |
| 22 | Women who have no objection to abortion in principle feel that it is entirely within their right to abort babies who have been diagnosed as being mentally handicapped ; certainly at present there are few legal restraints , but there are practical as well as moral problems involved . |
| 23 | Some organisations , whether registered with the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies or not , were easily recognisable and criticised as being jointly managed by shipowners and therefore employer dominated . |
| 24 | Why are such patients described as being inappropriately placed ? |
| 25 | The couple , who are both in their 30s , are described as being heavily built with Irish accents . |