Example sentences of "best [verb] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole they are best regarded as expressing a desire to maintain and demonstrate right relations between God , man and his neighbour . |
| 2 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 3 | Note that while the first three kinds of information are relative strictly to the deictic centre , here specifically the social standing of the speaker , formality is perhaps best seen as involving a relation between all participant roles and situation ( but see Irvine , 1979 ; J. M. Atkinson , 1982 ) . |
| 4 | The objective of the Area Board chairmen in the 1950s is perhaps best interpreted as maximising the rate of growth of electricity sales consistent with covering book costs overall . |
| 5 | As originally constructed by a ninth cohort , probably of Legio VI , it contained only two or three suites of rooms together with some which are best interpreted as having a communal function.44 There was a small internal courtyard with an ornamental fountain and the old , first-century fort bath-house was rebuilt on a much larger scale . |
| 6 | A further concept was that of the Ka , which was inherent in gods , kings and men and which is perhaps best translated as meaning the life-force . |