Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | By bad luck , the question of women 's emancipation has been most often seen as parallel to that of non-European races . |
| 2 | In the ancient world slaves had been most commonly used as domestic servants and artisans , and this may well have continued to be true in the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that non-cognitive theories of ethics do best with those ethical words such as ‘ good ’ and ‘ ought ’ which are most plausibly represented as purely valuational , while cognitivist theories ( which take moral knowledge and truth seriously ) do best with words such as ‘ brave ’ ’ loyal' and so forth ( LOVIBOND ) . |
| 4 | These are most often described as giant squid and octopuses ( see pages 18–19 ) or as " sea serpents " . |
| 5 | Here we report initial 187 Os/ 188 Os ratios for 190-Myr-old picrite basalts from the Nuanetsi region of the Karoo flood basalt province , which are most readily explained as mixtures between enriched SCLM and sub-lithospheric material , most probably derived from a mantle plume . |
| 6 | These supposedly extreme propositions are much better understood as provocative statements of a political position than as semantic claims . |
| 7 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 8 | features of the original production of the language , for example shaky handwriting or quavering speech , are somewhat arbitrarily considered as features of the text rather than features of the context in which the language is produced . |
| 9 | In this sense they are perhaps best viewed as strategic clusters employed to help in the scrutiny of curriculum changes and conflicts . [ … ] |
| 10 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 11 | The connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord . |
| 12 | Amongst the vast range of savoury snacks there is just one entry for crisps , and I felt that the huge variety of chocolate biscuits or wavers , toffee , caramel , nuts and muesli etc that are so widely eaten as snacks are under-represented . |
| 13 | These are the widespread fictions or myths about the language , some of which are so universally accepted as to be pedagogical orthodoxy . |
| 14 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 15 | Certainly if they are so far changed as Gillespie suggests , I do n't have a problem with it . |
| 16 | This stretches from just below the wing fringe down to a point level with the centreline of the single chevron ; the joins are so finely stitched as to be almost invisible . |
| 17 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 18 | It is only if the existing and permitted uses of the land are so seriously affected as to render the land incapable of reasonably beneficial use that the owner can take advantage of the purchase notice procedure . |
| 19 | Any criteria for defining ‘ privileged information ’ , or what the ‘ dangers ’ are in revealing such matters as dispositions ( of manpower ) are so vaguely incorporated as to ensure that few will risk submitting an essay without approval , which might later be assessed as an ‘ improper disclosure ’ . |
| 20 | Not since Mavis mourned the passing of Harriet the budgie has a death been so dramatically evoked as that in which Ted finally succumbed to rigor mortis . |
| 21 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 22 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 23 | Rarely , however , have these two benefits been so effectively combined as in the new DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN from Reader 's Digest . |
| 24 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 25 | From this perspective the previously existing moral order is not seen as being wholly positive , and consequently its destruction — for both the conservative- and liberal-historians identify such a process-is not necessarily perceived as being problematic . |
| 26 | The scales are not neatly balanced as between secularism and religion in our society . |
| 27 | Such internal order is highly significant , since it reinforces the point that objects are not best understood as merely subservient to social divisions . |
| 28 | You might be able to think of crimes that are not generally regarded as deviant — crime committed in self-defence , for example . |
| 29 | The Revenue nowadays liaises closely with the Commission on such matters and , in the absence of any other information , is likely to conclude that the organisation carries on other activities which are not strictly defined as charitable , eg political lobbying and campaigning etc . |
| 30 | In these respects this Jesus strikes at the heart of the Jacob/Esau stories , and must present the most radical challenge to the story of the people of Jericho , who are not even left as bystanders , but are trampled into God 's ground and burnt to a cinder . |