Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking in Sao Tomé on Nov. 22 , 1989 , Prime Minister Celestino Rocha da Costa announced that five of the 15 state-owned cocoa plantations ( which covered 80 per cent of land for cultivation and were the major source of export earnings ) would be shortly sold off as part of a privatization programme . |
| 2 | For some this had the additional attraction that the hospital trusts could , at a future date , be simply floated off as private bodies . |
| 3 | In the original portrait it could be vaguely made out as a kind of craggy wild place ; in this photographic reproduction it was no more than thickenings and glimmerings in the black . |
| 4 | Critics like the duchess believe the Government 's allocation of up to £22 million for care agencies will be heavily trimmed back as local authorities are given the final say on how the money is spent . |
| 5 | They can patently not be completely summed up as a ‘ retribalization ’ by the ‘ electric age ’ . |
| 6 | The " fast-track " procedure allowed any agreement reached by US negotiators to be subsequently voted on as a package [ see p. 37849 ] . |