Example sentences of "[prep] as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow working with a young cast in Dublin has brought out the best in Parker as a director to create the film that is already being talked about as the best rock movie in years . |
| 2 | Erm it is our position that we would support and regard as as the best approach one based on past land take-up . |
| 3 | No , I mean I know that is is not exactly pertinent to the application that is er in , erm I my personal view is that that that bungalows are are practical , we have had it stated by one resident that a house and a bungalow would be acceptable , erm not that I am er anticipating any other planning develop er applications by these applicants but er would a house of a similar nature to one of these that they have proposed , plus a bungalow er , would we have as much opposition to this , to that as as the present ones , or you would prefer to defer until you saw it ? |
| 4 | So they 're just after a kind of random sample of Aston lecturers and as as the official random sample keep forgetting to put the er put the tape in the machine , or turn it on or whatever , it 's handed on to me so I 'm now wired up to an extraordinary degree . |
| 5 | I do yeah absolutely as as as the first few times we did it you know . |
| 6 | Erm , that report is not in the bundle of documents before your lordship at present because we were notified er er as as the sixteenth of November er that thetted , a unitary stat unitary authority and County Hall is |
| 7 | You see and that al old aunt that I told you about she always referred this road through as the new road . |
| 8 | But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own . |
| 9 | Such accounts cast doubt on whether an understanding of reality is to be conceived of as the primary goal of science or the actual nature of its achievement . |
| 10 | From the physical point of view , the human child is at its most vulnerable during and just after birth , and it remains ‘ at risk ’ , in the actuarial sense , throughout early childhood , particularly during what our society thinks of as the pre-school years . |
| 11 | During his eight years with us , has travelled extensively , visiting customers and promoting the name of as the technical leader in the malting industry . |
| 12 | Even in Northern Ireland , the districts are best thought of as the lower tier in a system that simply lacks a democratically elected higher level of local government . |
| 13 | By trying to concentrate on what she thought of as the negative parts of his personality she would protect her own weakness . |
| 14 | Permanent income can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the existing stock of both ‘ human ’ and ‘ non-human ’ wealth over a long period of time . |
| 15 | Recall from Chapter 19 that this is a long-run measure of income which can be thought of as the present value of the expected flow of income from the stock of human and non-human wealth over a long period of time . |
| 16 | Wittgenstein , widely thought of as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century , published very little in his lifetime , and is unlikely to have got tenure in a modern British university . |
| 17 | As already mentioned , spreadsheets are often thought of as the key number crunching application and therefore benefit most from a numeric coprocessor . |
| 18 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |
| 19 | is generally thought of as the all-purpose cheese , for cooking and eating . |
| 20 | It struck Dexter as a very sensual act , at odds with what he thought of as the female detective 's self-control and cautious approach to the world . |
| 21 | He felt no fear that either the militia or the rebels would molest him or his men , since all the troubles were occurring in what he thought of as the richer areas . |
| 22 | Africa joined up with Asia via Arabia and became part of the huge continent that we now speak of as the Old World . |
| 23 | Just two years ago , the MP for Henley was being talked of as the next Prime Minister . |
| 24 | Man thought of as the aggressive animal confirms such Western prejudices . |
| 25 | Every ‘ Toshie ’ watcher , and there are many devotees of the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh from Hill Street to Hiroshima , knows that Glasgow was once thought of as the very acme of a Tokyo for tea-rooms . |
| 26 | In towns and cities across Scotland , people have lately grown increasingly conscious of the homeless : often young , often pitiful , often begging for money in a style once thought of as the very antithesis of the British way . |
| 27 | I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ? |
| 28 | He sat down on a log and tried to perform what he thought of as the vanishing act , whereby you became insofar as it was possible a part of the surroundings : breathing , seeing , hearing only — merely an aspect of the place , a dimension , like the robin or the moss-covered log or the leafmould on which his feet rested . |
| 29 | They are essentially threatening or assaulting practices and , like silent or heavy-breathing telephone calls , may be thought of as the sexually-poor man 's rape ! |
| 30 | It 's changed over the years , but it 's still for what I 'd like to think of as the intelligent , discerning young music fan . ’ |