Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the rock discourse of the time , progressive rock was widely regarded as associated with , indeed as the music of , the ‘ counterculture ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | If FMS is installed on your system ( ie. it was already installed , or it has been successfully installed as described in Section 1.4 ) then these parameters do not require to be modified . |
| 4 | The best of lovings are mutual , with a fairly even amount of give and take , as much received as given . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As a spin-off of the Channel 4 series of the same name , this book is not so much written as compiled . |
| 8 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 9 | All hits against the chariot in hand-to-hand or shooting are randomly allocated as shown below . |
| 10 | The Tutworker could have a reasonable income which was more or less guaranteed ; the Tributer was more in a position of winning or losing ; the Day Workers , with the lowest wages , were only hired as required but even so were better off than the local farm labourer ; bearing in mind that the mine was not a particularly unhealthy one . |
| 11 | As ketamine is a powerful anaesthetic its uncontrolled use in social settings is a cause for concern , although there is little documented evidence , as yet , that its non-medical use has greatly increased as suggested by media reports . |
| 12 | ‘ Cash ’ , ‘ liquid assets ’ , ‘ eligible assets ’ have all appeared as specified ratios at various stages over the last forty years . |
| 13 | The organisation of work is highly structured as shown below : |
| 14 | She was free of Ferdinando , towards whom her feelings had not so much changed as vanished , and of Mrs Browning who still troubled her so . |
| 15 | Ozawa , 50 , who was widely seen as seen as the real leader of the new group , firmly committed himself to comprehensive political reform . |
| 16 | The advantage of the method of analysis suggested here is that these international influences are not treated as isolated and exogenous instances , as if operated by deus ex machina , but are explicable and connected within the context of the workings of the world economic system . |
| 17 | Well Loaded Much talked-about guitar rockers , generally regarded as destined for the bigger stadia of life , unless they self-destruct en route . |
| 18 | The reason why this specific condition is not regarded as repeated is that it is incompatible with the condition to which the substitution is subject : the substitutes are to be admitted if no children are born to the testator or if any born die before puberty , whereas the manumission is subject to the condition that there are children who are still alive at puberty . |
| 19 | Although people in the Cape Town ballet world thought highly of his promise , John 's talent as a choreographer was not regarded as proved by the time he left South Africa ( at only eighteen , why should it have been ? ) , and other young choreographers were at least as highly thought of . |
| 20 | As we discussed earlier and argue later , this ‘ ideology ’ has deep biological and emotional reverberations and can not be easily dismissed as generated by propaganda or clever oratory . |
| 21 | The harbour porpoise is already designated as endangered under Canadian law , but such designation does not incur the same level of protection as in the US , despite repeated warnings about the level of porpoise deaths . |
| 22 | — Birds not listed as forbidden . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But by definition , science itself was not considered as penetrated by social context ; if it was it would no longer be science , at least not ‘ pure science ’ : |
| 25 | Given the price inelasticity argument , changes in duties in the annual budget are probably best seen as motivated by revenue-raising considerations . |
| 26 | Units have tended to fall not rise , so the value of many endowments has not grown as expected . |
| 27 | The move was generally seen as intended to draw centrist voters away from the conservative parties in the 1993 elections . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Societies are thus seen as made up of three interconnected structures , each of which is seen as a mode of production , transforming raw materials into commodities . |
| 30 | While this was not seen as condoned truancy , headmasters warned that it was sending signals about the relative lack of importance of regular attendance . |