Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The FDA 's audacious new tactics gained massive media coverage and are widely seen as only the beginning of a serious assault on products whose labelling is thought to violate federal law . |
| 2 | The two elderly Reformed Church bishops in Transylvania , Laszlo Papp in Oradea and Gyula Nagy in Cluj , are widely viewed as being beholden to the regime , giving them little authority with their congrega-tions . |
| 3 | The former Eastern bloc countries are widely recognised as having a potential comparative advantage in agriculture . |
| 4 | Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ . |
| 5 | Although slides and photos have been the traditional medium , and are widely accepted as substitutes for the landscape ( Shuttleworth , 1980b ) , Kreimer ( 1977 ) has also argued that they need to be put more fully into their context . |
| 6 | Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome . |
| 7 | Humans have a special affinity for dolphins , which are widely perceived as having a special degree of intelligence . |
| 8 | The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic . |
| 9 | Rushdie 's book The Satanic Verses had been widely condemned as blasphemous by the Moslem community . |
| 10 | a ‘ cultural heritage ’ view emphasises the responsibility of schools to lead children to an appreciation of those works of literature that have been widely regarded as amongst the finest in the language ; |
| 11 | He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare . |
| 12 | However , as the sole candidate and with the very high rate of abstention ( only 28.28 per cent of voters turned out ) , his presidency had been widely regarded as lacking in legitimacy . |
| 13 | This becomes clearer if it is considered from the more general perspective of post-modernism which has been widely characterized as involving a return of history , albeit as a category of representation . |
| 14 | It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income . |
| 15 | The target has been widely criticized as too low . |
| 16 | The growth of executive power at the expense of legislative authority has been widely recognized as another feature of capitalism affecting bureaucracy , especially as capitalism moves through its monopoly phase , or as the class struggle intensifies and threatens the process of capital accumulattion . |
| 17 | On Exmoor , management agreements have generally worked to stem losses of moor to agricultural development but the annual , index-linked compensation payments have been widely criticised as providing money to prevent a change which is not in the national interest to begin with . |
| 18 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 19 | But the Quebec offer has been widely criticised as inadequate . |
| 20 | This has been widely criticised as failing to provide for the development of a coherent energy policy to take account of environmental and other considerations such as events in the Gulf . |
| 21 | Although proposed by the UN 's International Law Commission , the idea has been widely criticised as legally unsound and practically unworkable . |
| 22 | The nasal-directed response in young infants has been widely interpreted as reflecting a functional crossed pathway , direct to the NOT , with the temporal-directed response depending on later maturation of an uncrossed pathway through binocular cortical neurons . |
| 23 | From within the movement , the publication of the Macdonald Report on the tragic events at Burnage High School has been widely interpreted as signalling the failure of the antiracist project in education . |
| 24 | The purpose of his investigation has been widely interpreted as being partly to ‘ get to the truth ’ and partly to assuage public opinion . |
| 25 | It had been widely denounced as disastrous both for the environment and the local Auyu forest people , whose traditional lands would be devastated [ see ED 46 for a detailed account of the project ] . |
| 26 | Equally important was the ideological factor of consent : in a situation of hegemony , subordinate classes ‘ consent ’ to the existing social relations because they are effectively represented as being universally beneficial . |
| 27 | If FMS is installed on your system ( ie. it was already installed , or it has been successfully installed as described in Section 1.4 ) then these parameters do not require to be modified . |
| 28 | Rather more realistically , perhaps , the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros . |
| 29 | Eastern bloc countries are uniformly analysed as quasi-totalitarian regimes controlled by a unified , corporate ( single body ) elite , which fuses political and administrative powers and monopolizes all decision-making . |
| 30 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |