Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | THE world of public relations has plenty of detractors but Michael Murphy , the founder and chairman of PR Consultants Scotland , has managed both to make himself wealthy and to run what is widely regarded as Scotland 's most professional home-grown consultancy , as well as its largest . |
| 5 | The authority of the Board Schools ( otherwise known as the ‘ Bored Schools ’ ) was widely regarded as suspect and frail . |
| 6 | The Russells are widely regarded as kind , trusting people , entirely without malice . |
| 7 | Ware , widely regarded as Britain 's top TV stunt artist and arranger , ran an agency called Havoc , which advised Crawford on his dangerous routines throughout the first two series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . |
| 8 | For a small supplement your home for the day could be Chef Boyers ' Les Crayeres , widely regarded as Frances ' greatest hotel where Chef/Patron Gerard Boyer , three star Michelin giant , has just been awarded , by Gault illau , the accolade of France 's top chef for 1992 . |
| 9 | Steve Goldman talks to the man widely regarded as Europe 's best film-maker . |
| 10 | Commentators described the outcome of these votes as a tactical victory for Yeltsin 's supporters and a boost for Yeltsin 's prospects of being elected ( hitherto considered fairly slim ) , since Vlasov , who was widely regarded as Yeltsin 's main opponent for Supreme Soviet Chairman ( and Gorbachev 's choice for the post ) , now faced the onerous task of defending his government 's record in a Congress debate . |
| 11 | Daim was replaced by the Education Minister , Anwar Ibrahim , now widely regarded as Mahathir 's political heir . |
| 12 | Daim was replaced by Anwar Ibrahim , who was widely regarded as Mahathir 's political heir . |
| 13 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 14 | However , the C/D boundary was defined as equivalent to the old pass/fail boundary and , in practice , A to C are still widely regarded as pass grades , D and E as fail . |
| 15 | Patterson , widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , had approved an import tax waiver for Shell Oil ( West Indies ) Ltd ( an offshoot of Shell International , UK ) , at the request of Mining and Energy Minister Horace Clarke who was also forced to resign . |
| 16 | Prior to his dismissal he had been widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , and he had served as acting Prime Minister for several periods during Manley 's illness in 1990 . |
| 17 | The words probably , likely and unlikely litter the text , even when I am talking about what is widely regarded as fact . |
| 18 | The only other alternative was to start an original act but after years of ‘ dancing as one , ’ most Girls could rarely think as individuals . |
| 19 | Executorships and trusteeships are , of course , commonplace and will ( save perhaps where there is a family connection ) nearly always be effectively treated as activities of the firm . |
| 20 | CHILDREN suffering fainting attacks are being wrongly diagnosed as epileptics , a child psychiatrist said yesterday . |
| 21 | However , dry flaky skin on the scalp is often wrongly diagnosed as dandruff . |
| 22 | Silent battles are constantly waging as coral colonies fight each other for living space and , as with fish , every species of invertebrate has its predators and many of these are other invertebrates . |
| 23 | The social norms can not merely exist as constraints existing outside individuals . |
| 24 | Further Cabinet changes followed the resignation in mid-September of Minister of State for Finance , Economy and the Budget Said Ali Kemal , hitherto regarded as second in the government only to Djohar . |
| 25 | That commodities such as simple sardine or anchovy butter which we had hitherto regarded as sandwich fillings , egg dishes which belonged to the breakfast table , the bed-sitting room or the night club , and little hot dishes which were ordinary English family supper savouries were valuable resources which could be quite differently deployed and offered as party dishes were ideas which had occurred to few people in pre-Boulestin days : |
| 26 | Behind Napoleone Lomellini and his noblemen ; behind the Pallaviccino , the Doria , the families of Gentile , Verdure , Archerio , de Pastino and the ranked faces , filled with hate , of the soldiers , there stood the men hitherto guarded as hostages . |
| 27 | Lily bulbs benefit from improved drainage and need cool roots , so using as spot plantings amongst other perennial plants and shrubs is ideal . |
| 28 | The wetlands , long regarded as wastes by generations of farmers , have been replaced by a harvest which fits the dictionary definition of ‘ waste ’ in every sense . |
| 29 | For Oldfield , exacting a satisfactory arrangement with Virgin had become a point of principle , inextricably entwined with his feelings for the man whom he had long regarded as friend and protector , and his need to prove something to himself : ‘ It had got to a point where I said I ca n't respect myself unless I 'm prepared to stand up and fight Richard . |
| 30 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |