Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel came full circle last year when he suddenly became ill with a bewildering illness eventually diagnosed as amyloid of the kidneys . |
| 2 | Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour . |
| 3 | There is the famous case of the radio dramatization of Wells 's War of the Worlds , which , within a confusion of signals , such as use of the convention of radio news reports , was quite widely received as an ‘ actuality ’ account of an alien invasion . |
| 4 | Among those assigned a specific household office , rather than loosely designated as ‘ our servant ’ , are the esquires of the body John Norreys and Walter Hungerford , and the usher of the chamber Edward Hardgill . |
| 5 | Among those assigned a specific household office , rather than loosely designated as ‘ our servant ’ , are the esquires of the body John Norreys and Walter Hungerford , and the usher of the chamber Edward Hardgill . |
| 6 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 7 | By the physiologist within his special and well defined universe of discourse they may be properly regarded as epiphenomena ; but by the naturalist in his more catholic survey of nature they can not be so regarded . |
| 8 | As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel . |
| 9 | Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) is properly regarded as the founder of utilitarianism . |
| 10 | It seems clear that the value of the whole state of consciousness is not properly regarded as the sum of the value of its parts . |
| 11 | More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence . |
| 12 | ( b ) Transfer of work A client is properly regarded as a client of the firm and not of the individual solicitor unless there is some personal , often family , connection between the two . |
| 13 | The environmental systems are effectively regarded as machines whose workings can all be discovered , described in differential equation form and whose future activities can thus be predicted in detail if their initial states are known . |
| 14 | A polymer in very dilute solution can be effectively regarded as an isolated chain whose shape is governed by short and long range inter- and intra-molecular interactions . |
| 15 | For an unusual case in which , on an interpretation of a bye-law , Monday , January 2 , was held to be properly treated as a Sunday for the purposes of supplying travellers , see Henderson v. Ross , 1928 J.C . |
| 16 | The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid . |
| 17 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
| 18 | Leicestershire is widely regarded as a pioneer of ‘ progressive ’ primary methods . |
| 19 | This was a hard period for the Prime Minister — she lost the confidence of senior colleagues , was widely regarded as an electoral liability and lost battles in the Cabinet . |
| 20 | Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's . |
| 21 | In the Commons Mr Field is widely regarded as one of the most thoughtful and persuasive MPs . |
| 22 | Steve Goldman talks to the man widely regarded as Europe 's best film-maker . |
| 23 | The ECMT , which is not part of the EC , is widely regarded as an ineffectual organisation . |
| 24 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 25 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
| 26 | The Hungarian minority was already complaining bitterly then of persecution — their plight widely regarded as the unfortunate flip-side of Ceausescu 's ultra-nationalism , which at least kept the Russians at bay . |
| 27 | The Shedd is widely regarded as the most advanced oceanarium in the world . |
| 28 | Mr Gould was under pressure from front-bench colleagues last night to declare his candidature as soon as Mr Kinnock makes his decision public , in an attempt to head off Mr Smith , who is widely regarded as the favourite . |
| 29 | But his own estimates , widely regarded as the most reliable of many recent projections , suggest that between 317 000 and 446 000 black South Africans will be HIV-positive by the end of this year . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher might now be widely regarded as an electoral liability ; but she had bounced back before from low opinion poll ratings and by-election reverses to win huge general election victories . |