Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A map is most easily conceived as having two co-ordinates , like longitude and latitude on customary human maps . |
| 2 | For pluralists , power is only really seen as existing in action , participation , and decision-making within the public arena of politics and government . |
| 3 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 4 | It is equally worth noting if the class is so tightly controlled as to inhibit seriously pupil response . |
| 5 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 6 | It is just this point that is made by Lado , whose approach to language teaching is so often represented as directly opposed to the development of communicative abilities : |
| 7 | If the throat is so severely swollen as to cause difficulty breathing . |
| 8 | The style is difficult to place , and is perhaps best describes as exuberant . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is also some indication that the appearance of particular items in particular columns is less easily shown as rule-governed than it is in the inner city . |
| 13 | Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract . |
| 14 | Even though the specific predictions of Engels might not be endorsed by modern anthropologists they would nearly all subscribe to the general thesis that as political and economic conditions change , so will marriage and the family change , and this conclusion is apparently still seen as shocking . |
| 15 | Women 's employment is thus commonly regarded as profitable only to a couple with a working husband . |
| 16 | Any sequence of causally related phenomena is thus always regarded as complete . |
| 17 | ( The 900 is already universally recognised as one of the world 's safest cars , but that 's hardly surprising knowing how stringent the safety standards are in the aircraft industry . ) |
| 18 | As the manner of articulation of is already adequately defined as nasal or lateral , the term frictionless continuant is used to describe /r/ . |
| 19 | The first glimpse of Montserrat is always deeply moving as it begins to rise like a vast ragged curtain on the evening horizon , mysterious and slightly sinister in its grandeur as it looms ever nearer in Goya-like menace , shifting from side to side of the bus until it vanishes behind us . |
| 20 | And with what is still quaintly described as ‘ sufficient power ’ Ward is convinced of the new car 's credentials : ‘ I am sure the Continental R can stand shoulder to shoulder with anything else we have ever built . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 23 | This appears to have been known locally as Cinderford Mill , although it is more widely remembered as Brights Corn Mill , the last miller being Samuel Bright . |
| 24 | It is more generally understood as pain that is made worse rather than better by increasing doses of morphine . |
| 25 | I am glad to have had the chance to record this act of kindness on the part of a man who is more often remembered as having installed a pay-phone for the use of his week-end guests . |
| 26 | The process is more accurately described as ‘ multi-individual , mutually inter-dependent conversion ’ ( McGavran 1970:302 ) . |
| 27 | The struggle is probably better understood as one between a dominant oligarchy and those whom they excluded from power . |
| 28 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 29 | It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet . |
| 30 | Thus , for example , the simple Ben is also variously spelt as Beinn , Bheinn and Bienne , and Meal ( a hill ) also appears as Meall , Mheall , Meallan and Maolle ; furthermore , the vowels in the names bristle with accents sloping both ways . |