Example sentences of "as [verb] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , of all schemes which assign gender to different persons of the Godhead , which suggest that God in God 's undifferentiated unity is female and as differentiated is male , or which see God as ‘ male ’ and humanity as ‘ female ’ in relation to God , it must be said that they necessarily fuel gender differentiation . |
| 2 | Thus , a Bill which sought to bring shipbuilding and repairing under public control but which did so , so far as repairing is concerned , by naming the particular firms affected , would be a ‘ hybrid ’ Bill . |
| 3 | A demand will not , however , be set aside as irregular if the particulars of the debt as given are incorrect or even if the wrong form ( demand based on a debt not based upon a judgment ) is used , provided that the debtor understood perfectly well what debt was being demanded of him ( Re A Debtor ( No 190 of 1987 ) The Times , 21 May 1988 and Re A Debtor ( No 1 of 1978 ) The Times , 20 January 1989 ) . |
| 4 | It is one thing to join an exchange rate mechanism with certain quite wide margins within which the currency can fluctuate , as has been necessary . |
| 5 | The growing numbers of underemployed middle- or upper-class women , for whom unpaid charitable work was one of the very few socially acceptable occupations , supplied a willing and almost endless supply of volunteers for such activity , such as has been available at no other period of British history . |
| 6 | As has been normal for most organized communities that are not based on a money economy , African society was based on slavery ( in the sense of the life-long ownership of human beings who could be traded ) , which sometimes involved plantation work or even being used as a human sacrifice : there is no calculus to compare the disadvantages of local slavery with those of being taken across the Atlantic and used as plantation or mining labour . |
| 7 | Because of the recent reorganisation of the management of the infantry , which saw the headquarters of the Scottish infantry division remaining at Edinburgh Castle , Brigadier Scott will become a ‘ two star ’ Major General rather than a ‘ three star ’ Lt Gen , as has been customary in the past with the GOC Scotland . |
| 8 | They clearly interact with one another , as has been obvious from the foregoing . |
| 9 | As has been evident , our procedural rules are sown in an adjudicative framework . |
| 10 | the extension of developing disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident recently in various areas of the social sciences and in computer science ; |
| 11 | the reduction of contracting disciplines , as measured by the relative size of the literature , and as has been evident for some time in religion and philosophy ; and |
| 12 | As has been evident from the previous two matches , the European team will bring the stronger hitters in the match , being an average of nine yards a man longer off the tee and hitting one green in regulation more per round . |
| 13 | As far as looks are concerned , a lot of people are swayed by the media , it 's so powerful . |
| 14 | Intravenous acetylcysteine remains the antidote of choice in Britain for patients presenting to medical care early enough ; oral methionine , another precursor of hepatic glutathione , is probably inferior to acetylcysteine as vomiting is common after overdose and metabolism to glutathione may be impaired by increasing liver dysfunction . |
| 15 | The 1937 sound as transferred is clear and welldetailed but rather lacks tonal depth . |
| 16 | They failed to see that the principle of subsidiarity as interpreted was inadequate to a modern society . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , IPC as proposed is applicable to only a relatively small number of pollutants . |
| 18 | However , the Commission adds that a total of 139 ‘ public officers ’ were ‘ recorded ’ as having been involved in human rights abuses , including torture . |
| 19 | The issue resurfaced almost immediately , however , in the form of a sexually explicit interview published by the Star ( a supermarket tabloid which had originally published the Nichols allegations ) , with a state employee , Gennifer Flowers , one of the woman named by Nichols as having been involved with Clinton . |
| 20 | One question which arises from the conclusion that bridging inferences are falsely identified as having been present in a passage concerns when such inferences are drawn . |
| 21 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 22 | The use of water cannon was criticised as having been unnecessary and for affecting members of the public who had not been involved in the march . |
| 23 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 24 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 25 | Factors such as the availability and characteristics of labour are seen as having been important at certain periods ‘ until the early 1970s ’ ( ibid. ) , but not as being fundamental . |
| 26 | And the past to which you are so resolutely attached — I suppose you regard it as having been ideal ? |
| 27 | Nor can Hewlett be dismissed as having been lucky and got it right first time : it did n't . |
| 28 | In this manner certain aspects , at least , of the process of permissive change are presented as having been positive and beneficial , in direct contrast to the view of the conservative-historians . |
| 29 | Again , it would have been professional suicide for a civil servant to describe the indignities of derangement and to represent himself as having been mad , unless the facts were as well known to his colleagues and masters as he says they were ; while to try , on the other hand , to put his known condition in a better light , as Hoccleve does , is sensible only if the fact of his illness was well known but his recovery less well recognised , which is what he claims . |
| 30 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |