Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as a " 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 As the plains became higher and colder , so another memorable Andean beast appeared — the guanaco , country cousin to the llama , brother to the vicuña and the alpaca , and properly regarded as a small and humpless camel .
3 More generally , although civil contempt is not properly regarded as a criminal offence .
4 ( b ) Transfer of work A client is properly regarded as a client of the firm and not of the individual solicitor unless there is some personal , often family , connection between the two .
5 For an unusual case in which , on an interpretation of a bye-law , Monday , January 2 , was held to be properly treated as a Sunday for the purposes of supplying travellers , see Henderson v. Ross , 1928 J.C .
6 The directors recommended that the dividend payout to shareholders should be increased by 25 per cent to 7.5p a share which was widely regarded as a move designed to ward off a takeover bid .
7 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 .
8 Leicestershire is widely regarded as a pioneer of ‘ progressive ’ primary methods .
9 Bournville , the community that has grown up around Cadbury 's Birmingham factory , is widely regarded as a company town , although from its foundation it has been open to people who do not work for the company and only a minority of the residents now have any link with Cadbury 's .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Linda Nicholson is a member of the London Fortepiano Trio and is widely regarded as a leading fortepiano player .
13 MR Lamont is not widely regarded as a great Chancellor .
14 Huge though the payment was , it was widely regarded as a bargain , partly because most of the bill was met by insurers and partly because the amount was a fraction of the outstanding claims against the firm .
15 The Excess Profits Duty was widely regarded as a concession to mounting concern over profiteering ( Maguire 1987 ) , but the decision to levy it on societies posed fundamental questions about the nature of the cooperative enterprise .
16 In Berlin , for example , I heard of a woman addressed as Fräulein ( ‘ Miss ’ , literally ‘ little woman ’ and widely regarded as a put-down , so that many German women have abandoned it in favour of Frau ) by a male bus driver , who said ‘ Danke , Fräulein' when she tendered her fare .
17 The outcome was widely regarded as a considerable rebuff for Rhee and a weakening of his position , underlined by the number of successful independents .
18 She was widely regarded as a crank .
19 He dressed from the Pinner charity shops , and was widely regarded as a gentleman , who wittered on rather too much about himself and could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk .
20 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 .
21 In its co-ordinated typography , pertinent use of colour-coding and subtlety of complex chartwork , BP 's Statistical Review is widely regarded as a model of its kind .
22 In 1886 he was invited to become the chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , for whom he completed , equipped , and organized the engineering workshops in Horwich , widely regarded as a model of their kind , eventually employing over 10,000 men .
23 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 .
24 In what appeared to be an attempt to play down the affair , President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , widely regarded as a " moderate " , commented in a sermon on Feb. 16 that " if the West deal with the issue logically , the result will be that the Imam 's sentence will be regarded as an issue of Islamic expertise , not anything else " .
25 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 ] .
26 Emphasising that " the key to a peaceful solution lies in the hands of Afghans themselves " , he said nevertheless that the talks had been made possible by the " new , positive and changing " United States attitude , a comment widely regarded as a reference to recent US congressional moves to cut aid to the mujahedeen by 10 per cent .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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