Example sentences of "as [adv] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 2 | The European Commission did n't prove that helpful either : Hinsley makes no secret of his frustration with the Esprit parallel processing projects , which he sees as obsessed with making Unix parallel — a quest that he sees as fundamentally misguided and doomed to failure in the long term . |
| 3 | Thus in the women 's fight , Spenser presents the two combatants not as fundamentally different but very similar . |
| 4 | New Hampshire is nearly as staunchly Republican and also had not voted Democratic since 1964 . |
| 5 | In contrast , Artegall 's final encounter with Grantorto , again organised as a formal chivalric contest , shows Artegall as intensely self-composed and controlled as opposed to the giant 's enraged but chaotic behaviour . |
| 6 | Secondly , we must recall that the mental conflicts which I am identifying as the origins of human society and civilized behaviour — essentially those portrayed in the story of Oedipus — were as intensely painful and unpleasurable to those who experienced them then as they are to those who experience them in our own times . |
| 7 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 8 | He also struck me as wholly sincere and a very decent sort . |
| 9 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 10 | But the first criticism I regard as entirely correct and these quite inadequate findings and reasons did not deal with this aspect of the case at all . |
| 11 | Particularly I think to the , to , to , not to provide something that they encounter elsewhere , the hoops they have to go through in order to get benefit , the restart programme , we 're not interested in that we 're interested in solidarity support , rebuilding confidence , keep keeping unemployed people in contract with the local trade union movement , and that that 's something that I personally regard as extremely important and something that , that erm with this partnership of the Labour Party , the Labour Group and the Trades Council and the trade unions in the area , I think we do very effectively . |
| 12 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 13 | Forest Goblins even eat certain species of spiders which they regard as especially succulent and superior to any other kind of flesh . |
| 14 | ‘ Presumably they regard cigarette smoking as morally neutral and non-addictive . ’ |
| 15 | And er what they found was that the media sensitive managers were much more likely to be regarded as highly successful and sensitivity in selection of media by relating the medium to the message would seem to relate quite closely to erm y'know high performance as a manager Let's have a look at |
| 16 | Mr Maclean dismissed that as highly speculative and said it had no connection with the draft authorisation under consideration by HMIP . |
| 17 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 18 | Further , although this hypothesis has not yet resulted in an account incorporating consciousness , it has been remarkably successful in explaining many other mental phenomena which earlier generations saw as necessarily mysterious and as evidence for some kind of duality . |
| 19 | It is a remnant which ‘ dates ’ Green and reveals our later generation as less innocent and more acquiescent . |
| 20 | Ignoring for the moment the force of the word ‘ really ’ in this argument , we can still feel confident that even if we give up talking of knowledge , granting that a necessary condition for knowing is unfulfilled , we can happily continue to talk about justified belief , distinguishing some beliefs as justified or as more justified than others and others as less justified or even completely unjustified . |
| 21 | Consequently , many young people now see choral singing as less glamorous and challenging than playing in an ensemble . |
| 22 | He insisted that his target was Mamaloni himself , whom he saw as unacceptably arbitrary and authoritarian in his leadership , rather than the ruling Alliance Party as such . |
| 23 | ‘ Heaven ’ and ‘ The Power Lines ’ , the latter about transients apprenticed to roaming , are just as austerely convincing but Griffith has the real last line on herself and her music when she says ‘ I 'm fragile as December ’ . |
| 24 | Everyone who subsequently learned of this action condemned it as utterly stupid and irresponsible , but perhaps such criticism may be tempered by the fact that the man was in a deep state of shock . |
| 25 | Under the Listing Particulars Directive , it is a condition of admission to listing that the issuer publishes listing particulars which contain , in as easily analysable and comprehensive a form as possible , the applicable items listed in the Directive . |
| 26 | Above all , it should be as physically comfortable and relaxing as it is easy on the eye . |
| 27 | What is or can be as superlatively silly or ruinous to the nerves as that silly girl , snivelling and laughing by turns over a ‘ love story ’ ? |
| 28 | The heavily studded oak banister curved down into the darkness of the hall from which the tick of the grandfather clock sounded as unnaturally loud and ominous as a time bomb . |
| 29 | First , the executives begin to experience each other as more supportive and constructive . |
| 30 | Older managers , on £16,650 , are regarded as more stable and having reached their ‘ ceiling ’ . |