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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This brochure is only intended as a very brief introduction to Carmarthen Bay & Teifi Valley . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They danced until their limbs fell from their bodies , compelled to cavort as a fantastically swift leprosy rotted the flesh from their bones . |
| 11 | But this is dismissed as a merely verbal error . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That fact standing alone might be regarded as a not unjust consequence of the Home Secretary 's policy . |
| 14 | Arbiter theorists have a comparatively complex outlook on law , which is regarded as a partly autonomous sphere of social action , not controllable by capitalists . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ? |
| 18 | Both accepted what might have been regarded as a rather dubious honour . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The surge in commercial vehicle production was regarded as a particularly encouraging pointer to an improvement in the economy . |
| 22 | 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. |
| 23 | A victory for her would be regarded as a particularly bitter blow for Mr Chirac , who has been campaigning in support of her rival . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Outgoing student calls are made from a pay phone , so that the telephone charge can be regarded as a purely administrative expense . |
| 26 | Conflict should not be regarded as a purely negative issue . |
| 27 | What is being said is that it 's intended to keep what 's regarded as a highly successful regime going on existing lines . |
| 28 | The insect maxilla is to be regarded as a highly modified walking limb , whose main shaft is represented by the palp and base by the cardo and stripes . |
| 29 | It would seem from these comments that Hitler 's association with the solution of the ‘ Jewish problem ’ was regarded as a highly positive attribute in the eyes of mainly the ‘ politically active ’ part of the population which formed the bulk of the film 's viewers , but that among ‘ ordinary ’ Germans there was also a considerable degree of disinterest in the ‘ Jewish Question , . |
| 30 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |