Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [det] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are treated very much as a child even when you 're sixteen , seventeen , eighteen years old . |
| 2 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 3 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 4 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 5 | Cornford himself came to be regarded as much as a typically doomed and respected idealist of his generation as a poet . |
| 6 | Genette 's discussion of Proust is so far reaching that his book can be regarded as much as a reading of A la recherche as a contribution to narrative theory , and to this extent it represents a challenge to the generic distinctions normally made in structuralist thinking between poetics and criticism . |
| 7 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 8 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 9 | Nowadays it is regarded very much as a ‘ party trick ’ and there are only a few helicopter radios which feature an ‘ invert ’ switch . |
| 10 | But at the moment , automating the payment cycle is seen very much as a second phase , so AEI is n't taking any electronic payments from customers . |
| 11 | At that point it was viewed very much as a short-term arrangement , with more suitable employment to be sought come the winter . |