Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loch Brora produces a good number of salmon each season , as well as Arctic char and some excellent brown trout ; but the loch is most famous as a sea-trout fishery and from June until September , these wonderful , fighting fish provide outstanding sport . |
| 2 | Hyper-transfusion or even exchange transfusion with normal blood can lower the proportion of HbS sufficiently to greatly reduce the incidence of sickling crises , but this is most useful as a short-term measure , for example in pregnancy or as prophylaxis before and during major surgery . |
| 3 | This idealized version is most imaginative as a teenager when any fantasy is possible . |
| 4 | The occiput is the hinder part of the epicranium between the vertex and the neck ; it is rarely present as a distinct sclerite . |
| 5 | The block diagram is highly versatile as a spatial representation of any process at any level , that is the same process can be represented by one block or by very many blocks which provide more detail . |
| 6 | However , Wallace 's remark is highly improbable as an account of opinion in France , given the overwhelming sense of crisis in the political life of that country . |
| 7 | Leek is a town of many textile mills , but Brindley 's Mill , on the A523 Macclesfield road , is especially interesting as a survival of the early work of James Brindley ( q.v . ) . |
| 8 | However , it is somewhat unsatisfactory as a matter of principle . |
| 9 | If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all . |
| 10 | It is only available as a semisynthetic human insulin , whereas at present there are porcine and semisynthetic preparations of Mixtard . |
| 11 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 12 | Since the CTP is so flawed as an explanation of the mind and since its apparent attractions are apparent rather than real , how does the claim of that science to advance our understanding of the mind command such a following ? |
| 13 | But if research is so unreliable as a source of solutions , what good is it ? |
| 14 | the visual image is so important as a complement to the sounds . |
| 15 | ‘ He once wrote : ‘ Nothing is so useless as a general maxim . ’ ’ |
| 16 | Associationism is long dead as a theory of thought , but externalism remains as a feature of most of its naturalistic successors , because , by virtue of their naturalism , they can find no space for intrinsic generality of mental contents . |
| 17 | While the former does not go beyond the school — seeing the school as both problem and solution — the latter assumes that the education system is entirely successful as an apparatus which reproduces gender and class inequality . |
| 18 | This is extremely unhelpful as a model . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom is extremely attractive as a location for inward investment in the telecommunications industry . |
| 20 | For this latter reason alone it is crucially important as a matter of artistic integrity that Miller , the invented man , does not have too much in common with me . |
| 21 | We would continue to recommend transparency as a useful index in renal clinics , but think that in the light of our findings it is less useful as a screening test in antenatal clinics . |
| 22 | Even so , The Survivors is less convincing as a portrayal of a dire predicament than as a formal arrangement set up by the figures as they stretch and strain over the raft . |
| 23 | Here , experience of a particular sector is less important as a previous record of achievement in searching for such individuals than having the necessary weight and calibre to be able to attract those people . |
| 24 | Availability is less meaningful as a measure of performance since it is not possible to be sure the plant would be available to produce full load unless it is actually in operation , which proves whether or not it is working satisfactorily . |
| 25 | ‘ Harlot ’ is Hugh Montague , an intellectual spook who is obviously indebted as a character to James Jesus Angleton . |
| 26 | What is necessary is a medium of exchange which is generally acceptable as a means of Medium of payment for goods and services and as a means of payment for labour and other factor services . |
| 27 | This is not possible as a part number must be unique . |
| 28 | At the moment , Unisys Corp 's Unix OLTP for example , is not visible as a Tuxedo implementation : ‘ we even used to charge companies to use the brand ’ admits USL . |
| 29 | Light is not visible as an object in a particular place : rather , it operates as the invisible catalyst through which everything around takes form and shape . |
| 30 | When it is true that an effect-the wine bottle 's being open-is my means , it is not such as an effect but as a cause of something else , which other thing is not a means to it . |