Example sentences of "very [det] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the moment , automating the payment cycle is seen very much as a second phase , so AEI is n't taking any electronic payments from customers . |
| 2 | At that point it was viewed very much as a short-term arrangement , with more suitable employment to be sought come the winter . |
| 3 | At the end of it there 's the chance that we may have to take action ; we 'd take that very much as a last resort , and we hope our customers will respond without the necessity for fines or prosecutions . |
| 4 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 5 | I like this very much as an easy summer skirt — three pieces knitted right across your machine , hooked back on to fewer stitches for a small yoke to avoid bulk at the waist — equally becoming to the very slender or larger lady . |
| 6 | Once formed the stony surface , often termed desert armour , will tend to protect the surface , very much as the coarse material in a stream bed makes it often less erodible than the banks . |
| 7 | Relying on drugs for this purpose should be seen very much as the last resort , however , and the huge majority of dogs adapt to this form of transportation without difficulty , from an early age . |
| 8 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |