Example sentences of "they [vb base] be [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation . |
| 2 | So too are your gestures , and the overall message they give is known as body language . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mistakenly supposing that their moral beliefs are innately given , people are liable to continue to accept what they have been taught as young children . |
| 6 | The famous late figurine of a goddess found in a small rural shrine at Gazi wears a diadem embellished with three carefully depicted poppy seed-heads , and they have been cut as if for the extraction of opium . |
| 7 | Each a study in itself , with titles like ‘ No two feathers ’ , ‘ Butterflyman ’ , and ‘ Angel and the Dreamer ’ , they have been flown as an aerial ballet to classical music , wind harps and synthesisers . |
| 8 | However , the children of your unmarried partner can not inherit from you unless you adopt them or make a will even if they have been living as a family with you both . |
| 9 | In particular they have been seen as a system of colonization , and as institutions designed to ensure the military dominance of Israel over the indigenous Palestinian population . |
| 10 | Go and see the plans for any new development if they have been lodged as a formal application . |
| 11 | They have been written as a set of " Newvar " ( a graphics language ) programs which have been embedded within a number of menu key files . |
| 12 | They have been treated as people who did not know what they were doing , have made some terrible mistake and are wasting their lives . |
| 13 | They have been identified as a type of coral-like single-cell organism and the radioactive materials detected are in line with authorised effluent discharges from Sellafield during the past year . |
| 14 | An owner of goods has many rights — they have been described as ‘ a bundle or package of rights . ’ |
| 15 | In the period following the receipt of indicative offers interested parties will become increasingly anxious to learn whether they have been chosen as the preferred bidder . |
| 16 | Remember , however , to combine the families as you go along if they have been supplied as multiple Suitcases . |
| 17 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |
| 18 | They have been portrayed as Europe and world beaters in coal production in recent months . |
| 19 | Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves . |