Example sentences of "in what [is] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In what is normally seen as a male-dominated play , it is also worth noting that Hands and Barton give the women unusual prominence . |
| 2 | I include them because his statement that his days on the Western Front — in spite of the horror and the squalor — were the happiest of his life seems to be some sort of commentary on the greater part of a lifetime spent in what is often regarded as the idyllic English countryside . |
| 3 | It was designed by F. W. Stevens in what is often described as the Gothic Saracenic style . |
| 4 | Because the Metropolitan Police were objecting to reversed stairs which obstructed the driver 's vision to the left , 36–45 had Milnes ‘ Exhibition ’ staircases , which took a wide sweep in what is now known as the ‘ Normal ’ direction , i.e. the bottom step just behind the controller and the top step close to and at right angles to the bulkhead . |
| 5 | For the English-speaking nations , this concept was first realised on a substantial scale in what is now known as The Oxford English Dictionary , ( originally entitled A New English dictionary on Historical Principles ) . |
| 6 | Clydesdale Electrical , the Glasgow-based electrical retailer which has shown impressive growth in what is currently regarded as a lacklustre sector , won the judges ' unanimous approval for its courageous and aggressive marketing strategy . |
| 7 | More than seven million people in urban areas live in what is euphemistically described as informal housing . |
| 8 | From the moment that you arrive at college you will be involved in what is popularly known as " taking notes " and as likely as not within a few weeks you will be the possessor of tattered notebooks filled with illegible hieroglyphics or , worse still , of masses of mixed-up bits of paper . |
| 9 | Both of these assertions , though questionable , attest to the kind of currency James enjoyed in what is usually regarded as a purely Pauline sphere of influence . |
| 10 | This is linked to population decline in what is usually portrayed as a vicious circle of cause and effect : as services decline people react by out-migrating , which leads to further fall in demand and a consequent further reduction in service provision ( Bracey 1970 ) . |