Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] [subord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ownership of newspapers has rarely been seen as either an easy or a sure way of acquiring fortunes . |
| 2 | The following study of Owen may perhaps be regarded as only a partial success . |
| 3 | Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories . |
| 4 | This can perhaps be interpreted as either a sign of policy changes feeding through into the yield curve or as a change in exchange rate expectations . |
| 5 | The Middlemen can thus be seen as both an acid criticism of British society and a purge of Brooke-Rose 's oeuvre . |
| 6 | No prognosis would be possible in a serious case for at least two or three months from the accident and the treating surgeon 's report can thus be used as quite a good foundation for the independent reports which will follow later . |
| 7 | Far from relying on the merely muscular , grit requires co-ordination , technical ability and nerve in no little measure and , perhaps most elusive of all , what may best be termed as simply a ‘ feel ’ for it . |
| 8 | The theses that Latin American socio-economic structures could not be regarded as simply a local variant of European feudalism , and that the agrarian economy was already incorporated into the capitalist system were restated and developed , and the argument that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist reasserted . |
| 9 | They should not be regarded as simply a last resort , but involved in the consultation process surrounding possible action to prevent risk to employees . |
| 10 | The NCMD should not be regarded as merely a means to obtain sites and impress councils or other bodies . |
| 11 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 12 | It should not be discounted as merely a cynical manipulation on his part in order to restore flagging revolutionary morale by invoking the imperialist threat , even though it has in practice served that purpose . |
| 13 | A place is private and this offence can not be committed where only a minority group of the public are admitted . |
| 14 | A physically brave man ( he was a noted wrestler and had instructed Harry Pascoe in the art at one time ) he was doctrinally circumspect , so he conducted the marriage service in such a way that he could not be labelled as either a papist or a puritan . |
| 15 | But the stage has probably been reached where only a politically unacceptable increase in those rates would stabilise the currency . |
| 16 | But today the diary is regarded much more as an appointments aide-mémoire , and for the ‘ ordinary ’ person the keeping of a detailed diary of daily events would probably be regarded as just a little eccentric and perhaps even self-centred . |
| 17 | As a party , the Republicans , in electoral terms , remain weak below the presidential level and Reagan 's victory in 1980 can now be seen as largely a personal rather than an ideological or party triumph . |
| 18 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 19 | Seeing Renaissance writing deploying its resources to justify genocide as moral , divinely justified and ‘ civilising ’ , forces us to accept that Renaissance literature 's role has too frequently been accepted as unquestionably an instrument of enlightenment in some unexplored way . |
| 20 | As Jack Sattel has observed , the fabled ‘ inexpressiveness ’ of men can not usefully be described as simply a correlate of their masculine gender role . |
| 21 | Participating and enjoying disability arts could then be seen as only a side-show in the drama of struggle for change , something to provide relief from the tensions of boring or stressful committee meetings . |