Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A graduate of Leland , Stanford and Oxford universities , he was a sharp , intelligent man from Detroit , Michigan , who has all too often been dismissed as the maker of low-budget movies which exploited a particular mood or event in time , heavily criticized for their voyeurism . |
| 2 | The congress also elected as editor-in-chief of the BCP daily newspaper Rabotnichesko Delo Stefan Prodev , a reformist who in November 1988 had been dismissed as the editor of the newspaper Narodna Kultura for his association with the unofficial Club for the Support of Glasnost and Perestroika in Bulgaria [ see p. 36771 ] . |
| 3 | Most of these signed items had been dismissed as the work of mere copyists of Classical and Hellenistic creations , and even the unusual decorative and free-standing sculpture unearthed in the short-lived excavations undertaken at Aphrodisias itself in 1904-5 ( by Paul Gaudin ) and in 1937 ( by Giulio Jacopi ) failed to excite many experts . |
| 4 | Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel , Senna 's stop went like clockwork . |
| 5 | King 's Road 's Mary Quant told the conference that with the advent of the miniskirt in the sixties the crotch had been redefined as the new erogenous zone . |
| 6 | By 1987 the SLG had been redefined as the Curriculum Review Group ( CRG ) and during 1984–5 had reviewed the 14–16 Curriculum to make it more accessible to all , and in particular to reduce gender and class disadvantages and increase its coherence . |
| 7 | The enforcement of Amhara supremacy over other nationalities and the absence of a democratic machinery for instituting change are given as the main reasons why the Tigray People 's Liberation Front ( TPLF ) started an armed struggle in 1975 . |
| 8 | The cheesemaker has the best control over his cheese if he is able to use the milk from his own flock or herd — he then knows exactly what he is getting and where the animals have been grazed as the type of grass and subsoil contributes much to the flavour of the milk and then the cheese . |
| 9 | Practices such as witchcraft are treated as the outcome of structural features , filtered through the unconscious , and manifested in uncontrolled expressions of fear , guilt or frustration . |
| 10 | Thus the shareholders in the company are treated as the electorate , and the directors are regarded as the legislature . |
| 11 | In each node of the bottom layer , the inputs are treated as the address of a cell . |
| 12 | An alternative possibility is that these three versions of a word are treated as the same ( which would happen if the visual word-recognition system operates at a relatively abstract level ) . |
| 13 | The SFA requirements relating to notifications , consents or instructions to or from indirect customers who are treated as the firm 's customers ( see page 25 above ) , and customer agreements with them , can be discharged by reference to the intermediary ; this , however , does not apply where the intermediary acts for only one indirect customer . |
| 14 | Databases remain the number one concern for the second year running , whilst Unix standards are listed as the 8th most important issue , compared with their showing at 19th position last year . |
| 15 | Sex is clearly an essential determinant of the relationship called marriage , because it is and always has been recognized as the union of man and woman . |
| 16 | Ancient sites have traditionally been recognized as the haunts of beings or entities from worlds other than the everyday . |
| 17 | Fighting as ‘ Little Chocolate ’ , his campaign in England culminated in his winning the world bantamweight title by stopping Englishman Nunc Wallace in eighteen rounds of a contest at the Pelican Club , London , in 1890 ( though he had informally been recognized as the premier bantamweight for some years before ) . |
| 18 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 19 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 20 | Constipation is now recognized as the underlying cause of this disease — and fibre-depleted diets are recognized as the major cause of constipation . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that instead of treating the sea as the giver of life to mankind , as it certainly is , it has for far too long been treated as the world 's sewer . |
| 22 | The ‘ rule of thirds ’ has been treated as the standard method of division , but other arrangements were sometimes made which might reflect the contractor 's view of the likely profits to be won from a particular campaign . |
| 23 | At nineteen she is the youngest of four children and has always been treated as the " little one " . |
| 24 | The Venetian ambassador complained that though the republic had always been treated as the equal of the kingdoms of Europe he had been offered a place which did not fully reflect this . |
| 25 | Much of women 's rural work , such as caring for poultry , milking and craftwork within the home is not included , as men are registered as the family breadwinners , as farmers , and women as housewives . |
| 26 | Darwin 's theory had been criticized as the ‘ law of higgledy-piggledy ’ by Sir John Herschel , the eminent physicist ; but in the same autumn , Maxwell had begun the process of turning physics too into a statistical science . |
| 27 | Several of the dubious cases of jurists such as Ulpian have been explained as the product of compilatorial abbreviation . |
| 28 | He had also been registered as the owner of a number of import-export companies . |
| 29 | Observation of one of these signs — cyclical changes in cervical mucus — has been developed as the basis of a method capable of anticipating ovulation . |
| 30 | Neighbouring Middlesbrough has always been developed as the regional centre . |