Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [is] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.

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1 While Huntington has identified much of what is generally understood as conservative thought there is one aspect , which is of particular importance for our task , which he seems to underemphasize .
2 Yet without a secure nation-state the scope for development of what is conventionally identified as social policy is severely limited .
3 It must be stressed , in this connection , that the ‘ poetic ’ text in question is not necessarily a part of what is normally described as poetry , but can be any form of literature that possesses aesthetic or artistic properties .
4 She traces the origins of language interactions in the communicative patterns of earliest infancy , suggests some valuable features of what is sometimes dismissed as ‘ baby talk ’ and with extensive reference to the research literature , reviews a whole range of features of adult language that are thought to assist the child 's task of language learning .
5 Such pairs of things enter into what is variously described as interaction , reciprocal causation , functional interdependence , functional relation , concomitant variation , and so on .
6 These bodies have various functions ; none is exclusively concerned with what is commonly regarded as being their primary function , i.e. the making of laws .
7 She also identifies the need for what is usefully described as ‘ transition management ’ , to establish the change through a clearly defined communications strategy , based on a model of the change process .
8 Clearly , these categories of disability blur the borderline between what is generally considered as disability and what is considered the increasing frailty of old age .
9 Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality .
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