Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mill 's reply , in effect , was that the middle class , " the class which is universally described as both the most wise and the most virtuous part of the community " , would still dominate in a democracy , because : " Of the people beneath them , a vast majority would be sure to be guided by their advice and example . " |
| 2 | In the eighteenth century , British teachers such as Henry Baker and Thomas Braidwood used oralism as part of a combined system which is nowadays known as Total Communication . |
| 3 | Environmentalists warn that the development may place an intolerable burden on the remaining forest , whose area has shrunk from 5,200 square miles in 1943 to around 2,070 square miles today , some of which is notionally protected as a national park . |
| 4 | What you have made is one of the very simplest double bed slip patterns , which is confusingly known as ‘ Pin-Tuck ’ . |
| 5 | This latter region produces a type referred to as rasht silk , which is generally regarded as the best in the world . |
| 6 | The Transport and General Workers ' Union also contains about 11000 farm workers in its agricultural section , but the majority of these are located in Scotland and it is the NUAAW which is generally regarded as the industrial union for farm workers in England and Wales . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a travel agent , which is also defined as a shop for this purpose , can not change to an estate agent or building society 's premises because the two latter are both included in the definition of offices . |
| 8 | The depth of these deposits varies from less than 10 m to more than 200 m and the major drainage system is that of the Huanghe River , which is also known as the Yellow River since it carries a huge volume of yellow silt from the Loess plateau into the Yellow Sea . |
| 9 | In the pasture ( which is also known as a ley , ie. a temporary pasture ) will grow lots of clover , chicory and deep rooted herbs . |
| 10 | Another favoured scale is the Harmonic minor and its assocaited modes — particularly mode 4 ( the melody of Crushing Day is an example of this ‘ minor lydian ’ sounding scale ) and mode 5 , which is also known as the ‘ phrygian dominant ’ or ‘ Spanish phrygian ’ . |
| 11 | ONE of the most graceful of all the Spring bulbs is the Snakeshead Fritillary ( Fritillaria meleagris ) , which is also known as the Chequered Lily . |
| 12 | If negotiations are successful , the new office will be slightly closer to their warehouse which is also used as a design studio . |
| 13 | The ‘ Red Hot And Dance ’ album is scheduled for release through Sony next month , and features three new George Michael tracks ; ‘ Happy ’ , ‘ Do You Really Want To Know ’ and ‘ Too Funky ’ , which is also issued as a single on May 18 . |
| 14 | This is one of the group of ‘ grey geese ’ which is well known as a wintering bird on the mainland of Britain , and almost the whole of the European population breeds in Iceland . |
| 15 | The bold 300 were ordered ‘ up the line ’ , which is here applied as a military term as this was well in advance of the creation of the Glasgow Underground … they marched ‘ up the line ’ to the old bridge at Kelvinbridge . |
| 16 | Therefore ‘ easing ’ , which is normally presented as the opposite to work , can for the neighbourhood men ( and also the community relations police ) be construed as official police work , and quite often much of the best community work is done by neighbourhood men when they seem to be relaxing . |
| 17 | With , however , we have which is normally understood as the region inside the horizon . |
| 18 | Thus , the curvature singularity which usually occurs when , in this case , is replaced by a coordinate singularity which is normally interpreted as a horizon of the Kerr solution . |
| 19 | There are many ways of estimating the quality of the benefit at the end of the plan but one simple one is to calculate an earnings ratio , given by the interest earned over the total sum — which is best expressed as a percentage . |
| 20 | There is an underlying necessary ethic which is best summarised as the social contract . |
| 21 | In a way this first category is a peculiarly Protestant doubt which is best understood as a misrepresentation and abuse of freedom . |
| 22 | What the , President and colleagues as well as presenting himself as a great European leader , a demand which is not seen as be particularly , although at the moment , John Major and his government have sought to present themselves as green . |
| 23 | There are difficulties with the idea that convertible debt should be classified according to the probability of conversion , notably in specifying how the probability of conversion should be judged , whether convertible debt should be reclassified if the probability of conversion changes , and whether the interest on convertible debt which is not reported as a liability should be deducted in arriving at profit before taxation . |
| 24 | It includes material held in confidence which is not classed as " personal records " and certain types of journalistic material not caught by the definition in section 13 . |
| 25 | By this we mean a less dramatic and less fundamental change , which is positively evaluated as an improvement on the status quo . |
| 26 | The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale , for example , which is widely used as an IQ test , can be scored to yield a profile of 11 subscales . |
| 27 | Although there are standards which provide guidance on the construction of thesauri , until recently there has not been a ‘ standard ’ thesaurus , or even a thesaurus which is widely used as a norm . |
| 28 | A striking example of this is the Cakile maritima - Honkenya peploides community which is otherwise known as the Mertensio-Atriplicetum laciniatae association , from which Mertensia is nearly always absent in Scotland ! |
| 29 | What we need to do is to add a drug called Anapril Which is otherwise known as Inavase and somewhere , but somewhere we have a Brilliant , it 's gone again . |
| 30 | We had unlimited German labour available , and also at our command their talent for organization , which is rightly seen as a German national characteristic . |