Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Social class becomes significant when we realise that patterns of recruitment are not distributed randomly from all social strata : managerial and education , motivation , and personality variables , but this is not so significant that social background can be altogether dismissed as a relevant factor in work behaviour . |
2 | More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence . |
3 | MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor . |
4 | The decision of the House of Lords in R v. Greater London Council ex parte Bromley London Borough Council ( 1981 ) , confirming that of the Court of Appeal , has been widely regarded as a political decision , no doubt because it gave a ruling in an acutely political controversy . |
5 | During his 12 years in the post Späth had consolidated Baden-Württemberg 's reputation as a prosperous state and he had been widely regarded as a possible successor to Kohl . |
6 | The assembly also elected three party vice-presidents , namely : ( i ) incumbent vice-president Anwar Ibrahim , the Education Minister widely regarded as a future party leader ; ( ii ) incumbent vice-president , former Defence Minister and Anwar 's long-time rival Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ; and ( iii ) Agriculture Minister Sanusi Junid . |
7 | Nevertheless , Muoi was widely regarded as a cautious leader who would be unlikely to speed up the pace of reform . |
8 | In what was widely regarded as a defiant challenge to President Mobutu Sese Seko , on Aug. 15 delegates to the national conference elected as Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi , leader of the opposition Democratic Union for Social Progress ( UDPS ) . |
9 | The elections were widely regarded as a major setback for the ruling Kuomintang ( KMT ) and for President Lee . |
10 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
11 | The four Cambodian factions represented on the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) had met in Beijing , the Chinese capital , on Nov. 7-8 in what was widely regarded as a last-ditch attempt to save the UN plan from virtual collapse . |
12 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
13 | Rao 's appointment was widely regarded as a temporary measure ; he was in poor health following recent open-heart surgery and was not standing in the current general election . |
14 | The extensive series of domal uplifts traversed by the East African Rift System has been widely regarded as a clear example of active rifting with uplift preceding the development of rift structures . |
15 | Welch is the first to admit that when the Theatre Royal opened in 1982 it was widely regarded as a white elephant , which quickly became little more than a stopping off point for second-rate touring products . |
16 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
17 | Mr Gonzalez managed to win a vote of confidence in the first round only with the support of a Canary Islands deputy who is widely regarded as a parliamentary spokesman and lobbyist for the Tenerife banana planters . |
18 | The outcome was widely regarded as a considerable rebuff for Rhee and a weakening of his position , underlined by the number of successful independents . |
19 | Linda Nicholson is a member of the London Fortepiano Trio and is widely regarded as a leading fortepiano player . |
20 | Muoi , widely regarded as a conservative force at the time of his appointment as Premier in 1988 , had tended to confound his critics by generally supporting Linh 's reformist line . |
21 | The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects . |
22 | Meggitt contrasts the ‘ ritualised ’ literacy supposedly apparent in Melanesian politico-religious movements with a model of what literacy ‘ really ’ is in a way that obviously owes much to Goody : ‘ It seems that writing was rarely treated as a straightforward technique of secular action , one whose prime values is repeated and surrogate communication of unambiguous meanings in a variety of situations ’ ( 1968 , p. 302 ) . |
23 | So from the very outset , before O'Neillism was widely recognized as a new force in Ulster politics , Beattie was committed to the politicized evangelicalism which Paisley promoted . |
24 | As we have shown , it remained a separate establishment following the reorganization of public sector higher education in Wales and it is now widely recognized as a national institution offering full-time and part-time courses for professional performers of Music and Drama , together with honours BEd . |
25 | WIDELY tipped as a promising talent . |
26 | So , the Glacial Control theory , while seeming to be mostly invalidated as a basic explanation , may come into its own as the best way to explain many of the details of present reef morphology . |
27 | Clearly the MO of b 1 symmetry can have no contribution from any AO except O 2p x , and can be properly considered as a localized oxygen lone-pair orbital . |
28 | If his achievements reflect the value of the Dutch Texel , then the breed is being vastly under-rated as a terminal sire . |
29 | He confirmed that Iraq had been effectively disarmed as a military power , and was left with an army largely composed of infantry which could not constitute a threat to neighbouring states in the immediate future . |
30 | Constantine , who presided unchallenged over the Roman Empire from A.D. 312 until his death in 337 , is rightly regarded as a major pivot in the history and development of Christianity . |