Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major appointments included Antonis Samaras ( Foreign Affairs ) and Miltiades Evert ( Minister to the Prime Minister ) , both widely regarded as possible future party leaders . |
| 2 | Reporters in Vilnius noted meanwhile that the Lithuanian population remained calm and apparently unperturbed by what were widely regarded as Soviet provocations : a pro-independence rally on April 7 organized by Sajudis drew a crowd of up to 300,000 people . |
| 3 | As a result , the waste is in danger of continuing to be stored in what are widely regarded as inadequate facilities . |
| 4 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 5 | Nowadays it is merely regarded as good luck . |
| 6 | With all these gifts , lightly worn , there went a swift wit and sense of fun which delighted his friends , an unexpected tenderness towards the misfortunes of others , and high purpose gently disguised as simple enthusiasm . |
| 7 | There was Vogue to cater for the high-fashion interests ; there was any number of weekly magazines which provided the usual mix of what society fondly regarded as feminine issues : child-rearing , beauty hints , recipes , light fiction , articles on celebrities and , of course , the obligatory occasional piece on the ghastly lives some of the ‘ ordinary ’ readers led . |
| 8 | The boundaries of physics constantly change as new discoveries are made , e.g. the discovery of new fundamental particles . |
| 9 | Tracy has a thing I can only describe as Non-specific pain . |
| 10 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 11 | ( It is useful to understand here that in the ancient middle east pearls were among the most precious of gems and were highly esteemed as personal ornaments . |
| 12 | In other words , will workers in the future be increasingly herded together in large factories or offices belonging to even larger corporations or will there be a shift towards work being carried out at a more local level within small groups , perhaps operating as independent companies , partnerships , or co-operatives ? |
| 13 | Its presidium included Shevardnadze as chair , Dzhaba Iosseliani ( leader of the Mkhedrioni militia commander instrumental in toppling Gamsakhurdia ) as deputy chair , Tengiz Sigua ( hitherto acting as Prime Minister ) and Tengiz Kitovani ( head of the Georgian National Guard ) . |
| 14 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 15 | The room was still in the mess in which the incident squad had left it , the desks pushed together to serve as mortuary slabs and the movable screens stacked to one side to make way for the meat sacks being carried out . |
| 16 | Were it not better done as other use to sport with Amaryllis in the shade , or with the tangles of Nayera 's hair . ’ |
| 17 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 18 | Therefore , in what now follows , since we shall be examining social reproduction , I only count as variable capital that which is actually apportioned to the workers , and surplus-value will constitute the whole of the social surplus-value . |
| 19 | The development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning , because the bird learns its song by comparing it with a template rather than because of any consequence of singing a better chaffinch song . |
| 20 | The report , by researchers at Glasgow University 's Centre for Housing Research , was based on a study of nineteen BES companies in Scotland and the authors conclude that BES entails a misdirection of public resources which would be better employed as direct payments to housing associations . |
| 21 | Occasionally she would allow her gaze to drop on to one of the other patients with a look which Theodora could only interpret as startled amazement . |
| 22 | Masculinization of social institutions is of course not necessarily displayed as overt sexism or discrimination . |
| 23 | The sky was low and constantly shifting as different layers of grey and black cloud were dragged around by gusty winds . |
| 24 | What I am suggesting is that introspective reports , while often providing helpful qualitative information , can never be reliable enough to use as quantitative data defining the presence or absence of conscious awareness . |
| 25 | Networks that exhibit the same terminal behaviour as some device , system or more complicated network are naturally known as equivalent circuits . |
| 26 | These are companies , partnerships , unincorporated associations or trusts which are not large enough to qualify as ordinary business investors on the size test ( see page 36 below ) . |
| 27 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 28 | Rudbeckia fulgida deamii is better known as black-eyed Susan |
| 29 | Stuart Errington was perhaps better known as Chief Executive and Chairman of Mercantile Credit ( and at different periods Chairman of the Finance Houses Association and the Equipment Leasing Association ) , but is now Chairman of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 30 | Traditionally , this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide , better known as dry ice . |