Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , the Pakistan Times of March 13 had confirmed that another of his sons , Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi , had been dismissed as federal Minister of Communications , reportedly for contacting the government 's political opponents . |
| 2 | On-farm inspection , as practised under the old calf subsidy scheme and which was suggested as a workable substitute by both farmers and auctioneers , had been dismissed as impractical . |
| 3 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 4 | Responding to criticism that the commission had said next to nothing about the role of university scientists , , president emeritus of the Rockefeller University in New York and co-chairman of the commission , said that any such comments would have been dismissed as special pleading . |
| 5 | Anyone who thought before 1990 that Richard Perle , Ronald Reagan 's ultra-hawkish arms-control man , and Anne Lewis , a political consultant who has been a close ally of Jesse Jackson , would agree on policy towards Iraq would have been dismissed as mad : but they did . |
| 6 | According to Cannistraro , the report had been dismissed as unreliable at the time but now , in the light of the ‘ proven ’ Libyan connection , was the missing link that placed the blame squarely on Gaddafi . |
| 7 | Next , the things ordinary people like are dismissed as vulgar . |
| 8 | Her successes are dismissed as tawdry , her claims to original exploration comprehensively deflated . |
| 9 | What all this amounts to is a proviso that research based on samples of five hundred , a thousand , or more individuals should not be uncritically accepted as ‘ good ’ research while surveys using small samples , say a hundred or less , are dismissed as invalid . |
| 10 | These factors are dismissed as inevitable or unalterable , or not considered at all . |
| 11 | All too often their impressions are dismissed as false , having been based on a short , unrepresentative glimpse of part of a lesson , even thought they are usually expert at getting to the heart of the pupils ' experience in a particular classroom . |
| 12 | The Gospels are dismissed as unreliable , second-hand accounts which contain only ‘ something — but little — of the sayings , the precepts of Christ and information concerning him ’ . |
| 13 | Results are given as mean ( SEM ) . |
| 14 | All values are given as mean ( SE ) . |
| 15 | Details of individual programmes are given as usual in the Radio Times . |
| 16 | Wilcoxon 's rank sum test was used for non-parametric data to analyse the mean values , which are given as median and interquartile range . |
| 17 | These may not have constituted bases in the fullest sense nor been intended as permanent strategic installations , but Western statesmen have focussed on their potential and the capabilities they give the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | Special tax rules may apply in an off-market purchase of shares in an unquoted company ( USM companies are treated as unquoted for these purposes ) which is a trading company or a holding company of a trading company . |
| 19 | In this research , the two are treated as equivalent . |
| 20 | Dealings by persons who are connected in this fashion ( concert parties ) are treated as equivalent to the dealings of a single person . |
| 21 | The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction . |
| 22 | As a matter of drafting it is important to ensure that the grounds are treated as separate so that any one of which may be taken by the remaining partners as justifying the service of an expulsion notice . |
| 23 | Effectiveness and mistake avoidance are treated as synonymous , which is often overly simplistic . |
| 24 | Alter studying some thousands of searches made by users of PCL 's business studies , social sciences and communications library , we constructed a list of several hundred classes of terms which are treated as synonymous . |
| 25 | Is it not clear that it is an untried system , which is clearly producing a two-tier system for many patients , who are not receiving the very best care because their GP practices are treated as inferior to those that hold contracts ? |
| 26 | One of the means Golding uses to mediate between the peoples " world view and the reader 's is a series of metaphors in which inanimates are treated as animate , thus reflecting the people 's world view . |
| 27 | The effectiveness of metaphors of the type in which inanimates are treated as animate is shown in passages of narratorial description where they are deployed in a fully developed form , for example in a lengthy passage where the pre-Copernican view of the universe ( which still pervades the English language ) is exploited and combined with the peoples ' perception of animacy in all things : " The moon rose slowly and almost vertically into a sky where there was nothing but a few spilled traces of cloud . |
| 28 | Similarly , evaluations of polluters are treated as open to the application of various definitions for the purpose of enforcing regulations . |
| 29 | The referenced files are treated as unreadable and are never made available for viewing , i.e. during approval or hard copying . |
| 30 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |