Example sentences of "[verb] as a [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the approach eschews vague yet important notions of fairness and integrity , and makes them subservient to what can be criticized as a very narrow view of cost . |
| 2 | By contrast , the social survey was developed as a more generic method . |
| 3 | The equations were originally developed as a highly simplified model ( mathematically a very severe truncation ) of the equations of Bénard convection ( Chapter 22 ) . |
| 4 | From then on they have developed as an almost necessary part of Church life . |
| 5 | The trustee company will also be paid an annual fee , normally calculated as a very small percentage on the net asset value of the trust . |
| 6 | As Neil MacCormick has observed : ‘ It remains a contested issue whether an aspiration to justice is to be treated as essential to or definitive of the legal enterprise in all its manifestations , or is to be distinguished as a specially urgent demand issued in the name of critical morality . ’ |
| 7 | It would challenge the boundaries between subject areas : for example , why science is construed and taught as a totally separate area from social science , when it might be argued that the social effects of science ( particularly in our nuclear age ) should be given equal weight to the mechanisms of science . |
| 8 | It is merely intended as a very easy-to-fit deterrent which a car owner may use in place of an alarm or , as in the author 's car , the unit can complement an existing security system which previously had no visual deterrent . |
| 9 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 10 | Originally intended as an almost recreational activity , the Hillbillies were formed by Mark with former musical associates Brendan Croker and Steve Phillips . |
| 11 | This was partly because Mannheim did not accept what he read as an overly materialistic account of history in Marx and partly because Marx distinguished ideology as false knowledge from science as true knowledge . |
| 12 | If a diabetic patient was in need of so-called ‘ balance ’ — namely , the appropriate injection of human insulin for the control of blood-sugar levels — equally so did Morse require the occasional balance of some mildly erotic fancy in order to meet the demands of what until recently he had diagnosed as a reasonably healthy libido . |
| 13 | They danced until their limbs fell from their bodies , compelled to cavort as a fantastically swift leprosy rotted the flesh from their bones . |
| 14 | But this is dismissed as a merely verbal error . |
| 15 | The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader . |
| 16 | That fact standing alone might be regarded as a not unjust consequence of the Home Secretary 's policy . |
| 17 | Arbiter theorists have a comparatively complex outlook on law , which is regarded as a partly autonomous sphere of social action , not controllable by capitalists . |
| 18 | Although a significant proportion of women remain economically active until the age of 60 or even 65 , retirement is still regarded as a predominantly male experience . |
| 19 | Bargaining power , whether belonging to an individual or a group , is sometimes regarded as a rather mysterious ingredient and indeed there is a multitude of definitions . |
| 20 | Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ? |
| 21 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 22 | From being underdetermined , the Keynesian model was made fully determinate by means of what many non-Keynesians regarded as a rather devious sleight of hand . |
| 23 | I believe that we will be regarded as a slightly frivolous century , and that we will not be showered with the sort of praise that we have blithely been giving ourselves . |
| 24 | The surge in commercial vehicle production was regarded as a particularly encouraging pointer to an improvement in the economy . |
| 25 | Within an eastern culture , table-fellowship and the sharing of a meal is regarded as a particularly intimate form of association , The fact that Jesus was prepared to act in such a fashion , and to be seen doing it , communicated as powerfully as any pronouncement , both to his friends at the table and his enemies at the window ( Matt. |
| 26 | A victory for her would be regarded as a particularly bitter blow for Mr Chirac , who has been campaigning in support of her rival . |
| 27 | The inverted-U relationship has been empirically demonstrated for a number of different tasks ( e.g. Courts , 1942 ; Stennett , 1957 ; Bolanger & Feldman , described in Malmo 1959 ) , however , it is often regarded as a purely descriptive relationship rather than necessarily implying that arousal per se is affecting performance . |
| 28 | Outgoing student calls are made from a pay phone , so that the telephone charge can be regarded as a purely administrative expense . |
| 29 | Conflict should not be regarded as a purely negative issue . |
| 30 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |