Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] of [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rarely spoken of as a lively city , and never as a promiscuous one . |
| 2 | Thorold Mackie , a small companies ' analyst who is highly thought of in the city 's financial circles , has been charged with obtaining and misusing price-sensitive information relating to a profits warning by Glasgow-based Shanks & McEwan . |
| 3 | If the point is finally disposed of by the European Court and if the judgment goes against the United Kingdom , then the question will arise about the appropriate response to bring the legal system into line with the State 's international obligations . |
| 4 | is generally thought of as the all-purpose cheese , for cooking and eating . |
| 5 | Excavation is best thought of as a postmortem examination of an archaeological site , and involves a detailed dissection of a site in order to gain as much information as possible . |
| 6 | Assistance by way of representation ( ABWOR ) is best thought of as a simple and easily administered type of civil legal aid for particular types of litigation . |
| 7 | Asthma is usually thought of as a disease of young people , yet most of the patients had been aged over 55 at the time of death , a significant number being elderly ( figure ) . |
| 8 | But Britain , which is usually thought of as a democracy , especially by the British , does not meet even that criterion . |
| 9 | significant — this is usually thought of as a slightly more rigorous test than material . |
| 10 | Shakespearan drama is usually thought of as the embodiment of a truly popular art , whatever ‘ bourgeois ’ or aristocratic dimensions it also possesses . |
| 11 | The syllabus is still conceived of as a collection of atomistic linguistic elements even though they are now functionally rather than formally defined . |
| 12 | Even a teacher who can at least teach is thoroughly disapproved of in the absence of personal relationships . |
| 13 | Amongst the Nyakyusa of Tanzania this power is known literally as ‘ the breath of men ’ and is clearly conceived of as a ‘ murmuring ’ afflatus , which marshals and expresses the public opinion of the community . |
| 14 | Because of his death , aged just forty-two , he is also thought of as a tragic figure , a man who was unable to fulfil the important public service to his people that seemed to be his destiny . |
| 15 | I think it 's often thought of as a way of men getting rid of their aggression and if they can go out there on a Saturday and shout and ball and scream , then that 's fine ! |
| 16 | Although the English landscape park is often thought of as a creation of the eighteenth century , by William Kent , Capability Brown and Humphry Repton , many country house parks are much older in origin , and in numerous instances are marked on Elizabethan |
| 17 | The period of cohabitation is often thought of as a trial marriage . |
| 18 | The House of Commons , particularly , but also the House of Lords , is often thought of as a club and the exchange of views and striking of bargains which goes on outside the chamber can be and frequently is of much greater significance than the public posturing which goes on within it . |
| 19 | Given that science is often thought of as a laboratory-based activity , rather than as a " bookish " subject , it is interesting to note that in three of the four schools , science departments had pioneered activities to develop basic library and information retrieval skills as part of their lower-school curriculum . |
| 20 | This period is often thought of as a failure in British politics , of failure to cope with the rise of Hitler and Mussolini abroad and a failure to deal with unemployment at home . |
| 21 | Party membership is often thought of as a static phenomenon . |
| 22 | Reflection is often thought of as a backward looking process . |
| 23 | Mak says the Chinese population is often thought of as a ‘ silent community ’ which looks after its own . |
| 24 | Vocational education is often thought of as the acquisition of knowledge and skills directly applicable to the job ; but in most posts what is required is not so much the acquisition of a skill as progressive development in the fields of human relations , of judgment , and of general educational standards . |
| 25 | The possessor 's right is even spoken of as a ‘ special property ’ , in contradistinction to the ‘ general property ’ of the owner . |
| 26 | For many endoscopists , the squamous columnar junction is considered as the representative of the oesophagogastric junction and the segment distal to it is frequently thought of as a ‘ hiatal hernia ’ , because of the presence of gastric mucosa . |
| 27 | Judgment is frequently thought of in a retributive and future context . |
| 28 | Lewis , for instance , is frequently spoken of as a man who enjoyed male coteries , as though , in the 1930s , the regiments , the London clubs , the Oxford and |
| 29 | As sport is popularly thought of as a leisure time distraction rather than a central life interest or a possible career , it would have held only a marginal interest to the first generation . |
| 30 | More generally , the fact that literary studies is sometimes thought of as a general training in thinking and writing means that you are expected to be able to control how you write — in particular , that you are able consistently to use a particular appropriate register . |