Example sentences of "as [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Eventually the horse was led away as wholly useless and intractable . |
| 2 | Even so , Finnis remains committed to the proposition that in determining the concept of property the legislator 's choice can not be regarded as wholly unfettered or arbitrary . |
| 3 | No education worth the name is wholly self-regarding , nor on the other hand can any be treated as wholly instrumental or other-regarding . |
| 4 | It was denounced by many as economically dangerous and potentially unenforceable , not least because it specified the requirement of budgetary balance without providing the mechanism through which this could be achieved . |
| 5 | The national priorities are predominantly concerned with the development of areas of the curriculum seen as economically useful and neither the humanities nor the arts are included in this category . |
| 6 | Keeping the ‘ common people ’ of Romania down by always increasing the demands put upon them and diminishing their rewards was good policy as well as economically necessary if his ever-more ambitious plans were to be accomplished . |
| 7 | On the other , the Conservatives have become committed to a free-market society , in which the market-place is seen as economically efficient and socially just . |
| 8 | ‘ Being a good public-school chap , I saw myself as jolly independent and quite tough and , above all , supremely normal . |
| 9 | So deliver them it does , in a political forum as intensely commercial as any private-sector marketplace . |
| 10 | Veblen took pleasure in representing that in a society as dedicated to practical efficiency as the United States emulation should have been directed to the pursuit of objectives as conspicuously useless and therefore wasteful as gold or precious stones . |
| 11 | I also saw poor people as having more sense of community and warmth — as altogether nicer and more ideologically sound ! |
| 12 | But its full deployment demands and to some extent is now getting — a greater historical specification than many devotees of psychoanalysis would regard as altogether orthodox or proper . |
| 13 | Retrospectively , socialist realism is being condemned on three counts : first , artistically , since the imposition of party dogma in the artistic field is viewed as creatively debilitating ; secondly , theoretically , since the subordination of cultural theory and practice to current political expediency is viewed as methodologically crude and inadequate ; thirdly , politically , since the exploitation of cultural activity to serve reprehensible Stalinist strategic objectives is viewed as morally unacceptable . |
| 14 | It is not easy in a country as hierarchically inclined as ours to continually question authority in a constructive way . |
| 15 | It was amazing , really , thought Robert , that Dr Ali allowed himself to be anywhere near a place as fundamentally un-Islamic as Wimbledon . |
| 16 | There is , or was , a kind of crude and debased variant of Marxism which tended to regard the differences in political systems and state structures among capitalist societies as fundamentally superficial and unimportant . |
| 17 | With contributors as widely diverse as Garret FitzGerald , Seamus Heaney , Tom Paulin and Nell McCafferty , plus a detailed day-by-day chronology of key events in the Troubles , this book — like Fortnight itself — presents some of the most informative and entertaining writing in Ireland today . |
| 18 | St Anthony being boiled in oil with a companionable gaggle of fellow martyrs ; St Anthony pierced by crossbow bolts fired by The Fat Controller in chain mail ; and in the central , triumphant panel — his white body as flexibly two-dimensional as bacon rind — St Anthony being sawn in half , lengthwise . |
| 19 | Mr Darby himself , a professionally miserable man in his late sixties , handed Billykins down from the car and into the chapel and , as the mourners crowded in after her , as politely unaggressive as only mourners can be , there was a real , though muted feeling of loss in the air . |
| 20 | The attitudes measured by this factor represent the ideals of the school self-evaluation movement , in which SSE is seen as professionally creative and stimulating , effective as a means of promoting institutional change and in close accord with a sense of individual professional responsibility . |
| 21 | Or perhaps earlier when someone had first suggested Morocco , and she had thought of it as somewhere different but not too far from Spain . |
| 22 | It meant that the moor had in the past few days become known not as somewhere unique and beautiful but as the place where a young girl had been killed . |
| 23 | Johnson reported the lake water , so often gunmetal and brooding , as remarkably clear and pleasant , and is imagined by the natives to be medicinal' . |
| 24 | Congress , through individual ‘ congressional entrepreneurs ’ , usually initiated regulation as rather small and modest programmes many of the programmes that later grew to add substantially to public expenditure and regulation . |
| 25 | They present as a major force in society attitudes and tastes which would be regarded as rather eccentric and marginal in Britain . |
| 26 | Erm , well as you probably know Bolton , Boltonian , may be regarded as rather parochial but erm we 've always been a little suspicious about Manchester and there probably are n't very many Boltonians you take the Manchester Evening News regularly because we have our own Bolton Evening News . |
| 27 | While it is doubtless heretical to question the divine rightness of ‘ market forces ’ , the endless and accelerating stream of virtually identical glib and glossy gardening , health , food and animal books puzzle those of us who still see books as rather more than just one more colour co-ordinated component in the interior decorator 's armoury . |
| 28 | It must be regarded as extremely probable that Oswiu was able to seek help in the confrontation with Penda not only from the Scots but also from the Picts , possibly even from the Irish ( see also below , p. 99 ) . |
| 29 | Nigeria 's soil erosion problem has been recognised as extremely serious but conservation has only become a national concern during the Third National Plan ( 1975–80 ) . |
| 30 | First , Rutter regards as comparatively small the reductions of two to seven points in IQ now being associated with lead pollution , whereas I view such effects as extremely serious when they are suffered by a major proportion of a whole generation of urban children . |