Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A loose umbrella reform group , whose members in the early years included both regulationists and their opponents , it embraced an ameliorist approach to social problems , shying away from any attempt to see them as structurally related . |
| 2 | After several years of thinking of sexism and heterosexism as different forms of oppression , we 've come back to seeing them as inextricably linked . |
| 3 | Yet , when faced once again with war between north and south , Christian and Moor , they found themselves unable to relate to their brothers in France or Italy , who in turn regarded them as scandalously Islamicised . |
| 4 | ‘ I want you as well dressed as the next man 's daughter . ’ |
| 5 | The trouble is that he is not a natural core forward , which is partly why he has been shifted from lock , but neither has he as yet convinced too many that he has that instinctive reaction in terms of man and/or ball which enables the born flanker to do his stuff . |
| 6 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 7 | Nevertheless they regarded themselves as unofficially engaged . |
| 8 | So why on earth she objected to the brief and fairly innocuous cartoons which portrayed her as scantily clad in Tuesday 's Without Walls , is beyond me . |
| 9 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 11 | A team that regards itself as hard done by and dreams of crayfish lunches at Doyles in Sydney or windsurfing in the Caribbean can be sunk without trace . |
| 12 | Charterail was transporting a weekly trainload of Pedigree products to Orleans , in France , and saw itself as ideally placed to link into the pan-European distribution system that will develop with the opening of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 13 | They are also the most likely to describe themselves as well endowed , through the least likely to say that size is important to women . |
| 14 | Out of this noisome soil grew some of the funerary customs of the upper classes , which today strike us as so exaggerated . |
| 15 | They could not regard themselves as irrevocably bound by their manifesto . |
| 16 | This underlines the importance — before you decide to treat yourself as constructively dismissed and leave your job — of weighing up the pros and cons of so doing . |
| 17 | But as society developed , men began to take control of the world and felt their separation from it ; instead of seeing themselves as deeply identified with their environment , people became aware of the personality as perspicacious to itself and as a unique , distinct entity . |
| 18 | Primarily what makes this type of work unpopular is the ever-present danger that work of this sort will break the veneer of coldness , exposing them as emotionally involved , which is something they dislike because it is considered unprofessional . |
| 19 | Ionization is the process by which a fast-moving quantity of energy is transferred , leaving them as electrically charged ions . |
| 20 | Furthermore , as a result of high levels of unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s ( and possibly also as a result of the capacity of the more affluent to accumulate enough resources to enable them to retire early if they wish ) , the percentage of those in their late fifties and early sixties who regard themselves as permanently retired has increased ( Walker 1980 ; GHS 1986 : 73 ; Johnson 1989 ) . |