Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this concern may not be wholly justified as he has been an active member of the CNAA and is known to be a keen supporter of public sector provision and an advocate of breaking down the barriers between the two sectors of higher education . |
| 2 | Where the landlord retains no property adjoining the demised property , the question of party structures will rarely arise as between him and his tenant . |
| 3 | While al most all the routines work very fast indeed the Circle is amazingly slow , any suggestions as to why would be gladly received as there seems to be no obvious answer . |
| 4 | Leaving aside the commitment to the ‘ duties ’ of the new ‘ Union Citizens ’ ( which the genuinely non-Federalists in the British party presumably dismissed as ‘ meaningless generality ’ ) , the main text , according to the British view , was concerned with economic matters . |
| 5 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 6 | The first mineral to crystallize is usually olivine , which carries on crystallizing as the magma cools until a temperature is reached at which a second mineral , pyroxene , begins to appear , and then , as the temperature drops still further , these two continue to crystallize together . |
| 7 | Restraint covenants agreed to in respect of the merged firm will be unenforceable unless some part of the business can be properly regarded as continuing the merged practice and entitled to protection . |
| 8 | Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive . |
| 9 | Britain is widely regarded as having a political system which scores high on political institutionalization and low on personal leadership . |
| 10 | The Prince was more than keen to help ; as a result of that approach he convened a meeting , known as the Windsor Conference , which is still widely regarded as one of the most significant advances ever made in race relations . |
| 11 | Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome . |
| 12 | ‘ American culture ’ is widely regarded as inferior to ‘ European culture ’ , even as a threat . |
| 13 | Moreover , the Council itself was widely regarded as dangerously left-wing , dominated not just by teachers , but by teachers acceptable to the furthest left of the teachers ' unions , the NUT ( itself then containing large proportion of primary school teachers , without university connections ) . |
| 14 | McCleod was widely regarded as one of the best centre-forwards in the country , and several clubs were interested in him . |
| 15 | In many respects the Public School Missions , widely regarded as ‘ civilizing ’ and ‘ Christianizing ’ the community , paralleled the settlements , with an ostentatious display of social conscience and religious conviction . |
| 16 | In 1885 Prussian Oberpräsident Möllendorf , who was widely regarded as pro-Polish , recommended a total ban on the Polish language , saying that only in this way was it possible to force the Poles to appreciate the benevolence and wisdom of German culture and administration . |
| 17 | But it is rich that John Major should talk of earning honours when his own Government is widely regarded as inept in so many ways . |
| 18 | a ‘ cultural heritage ’ view emphasises the responsibility of schools to lead children to an appreciation of those works of literature that have been widely regarded as amongst the finest in the language ; |
| 19 | DESERT Victory , which relates how Monty 's Eighth Army drove back Rommel 's Afrika Korps at El Alamein 50 years ago , is widely regarded as one of the greatest war documentaries ever made . |
| 20 | He was widely regarded as having one of the most brilliant minds in the Royal Navy . |
| 21 | Agriculture was still a major economic activity in the first postwar decades , and the ability to control the food supply was widely regarded as central to national sovereignty . |
| 22 | But even setting aside such terminological differences , it remains true that whether or not any animals employ symbolic representations is widely regarded as doubtful . |
| 23 | Its scenery is widely regarded as being among the best in the country . |
| 24 | McKinsey is widely regarded as one of the top business consulting companies in the world and Gerstner has been characterised as one of its stars . |
| 25 | As with support in the other direction , although it is widely regarded as legitimate for parents to look to their children , it is also possible for them to overstep the boundaries , and the way in which support is requested and delivered is important . |
| 26 | Hobbes 's thought , in contrast , was both well known and widely regarded as in need of refutation on account of its low view of man . |
| 27 | Criminal law appears to be regarded in legal education as something of a Cinderella subject , being widely regarded as suitable for beginners in the study of law to cut their teeth on before tackling the real business of legal study , viz. contract , tort , trusts and land law . |
| 28 | In broadcasting the French predilection for state leadership , fresh starts and grand plans is widely regarded as being less than a great success . |
| 29 | There is a reluctance , prima facie , to regard a breach of regulation as morally reprehensible , since the conduct addressed is widely regarded as ‘ morally neutral ’ ( Kadish , 1963 ; also Ball and Friedman , 1965 ; Fuller , 1942 ; Yoder , 1978 ) , in contrast with those behaviours which are the stuff of traditional criminal law . |
| 30 | The latter were widely regarded as corrupt and impure ( see for example the views on Cockney cited in note 1 , above ) . |