Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] as [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 2 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 3 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 4 | They were thus readily perceived as drags on the movement of the world towards greater political and economic freedom . |
| 5 | Thus , in the Report for the year 1980–81 , the CDA commented that the industrial co-operative was still often regarded as characterised by them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They were also slightly more often diagnosed as suffering from alcoholism , schizophrenia , hysteria and chronic brain syndrome . |
| 8 | The stereotype of the Mexican peasant , dwarfed by his sombrero and sitting by a cactus should , perhaps , be more realistically presented as listening to his radio set . |
| 9 | There are cases where variant readings of a single lexical form would seem to be more appropriately visualised as points on a continuum — a seamless fabric of meaning with no clear boundaries . |
| 10 | Furthermore , while the corporate constitution has a partially contractual basis , there are also significant mandatory elements , and many of those ingredients which are attributable to private ordering are more accurately described as resulting from management imposition than a process of contracting . |
| 11 | In an apparent effort to improve relations with the United States , the government of North Korea on June 24 returned the remains of 11 US servicemen killed in the 1950-53 Korean War , and promised to help search for a further 9,000 allied military personnel still officially listed as missing in action [ see also p. 37456 ] . |
| 12 | Given the price inelasticity argument , changes in duties in the annual budget are probably best seen as motivated by revenue-raising considerations . |
| 13 | These were later positively identified as belonging to 25year-old Garry Pettitt . |
| 14 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 15 | Mr Thompson said that what marked out the drift to recession was that the service sector would be as badly hit as manufacturing at least , and possibly worse affected , unlike in the recession of 1981 . |
| 16 | With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ . |
| 17 | Although he momentarily speaks of " " eelde " " , " old age " , in general terms ( 3885 ) he is quite clearly presented as speaking of old age as he knows it , on the basis of his personal experience : he starts his speech with a reference to himself , " " I " " , which by line 3874 is expanded to " " we olde men " " . |
| 18 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 19 | A catastrophe can happen when the system energy is no longer channelled as intended by the designers or because there is a release of toxic substances or both . |
| 20 | The element of sexism in the tax system has been corrected to the extent that the income of the wife is now taxed independently so that her income is no longer viewed as belonging to her husband . |
| 21 | The calibration is based on CACI 's long experience in the field of catchment area study across all retail sectors , and is therefore best viewed as relating to the catchment area of the centre as a whole . |