Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The environmental systems are effectively regarded as machines whose workings can all be discovered , described in differential equation form and whose future activities can thus be predicted in detail if their initial states are known . |
| 2 | Deng was reported to have been particularly incensed by an attack on the country 's five special economic zones ( SEZs ) , widely regarded as showcases for the reformist line . |
| 3 | The only other alternative was to start an original act but after years of ‘ dancing as one , ’ most Girls could rarely think as individuals . |
| 4 | Executorships and trusteeships are , of course , commonplace and will ( save perhaps where there is a family connection ) nearly always be effectively treated as activities of the firm . |
| 5 | CHILDREN suffering fainting attacks are being wrongly diagnosed as epileptics , a child psychiatrist said yesterday . |
| 6 | The social norms can not merely exist as constraints existing outside individuals . |
| 7 | Behind Napoleone Lomellini and his noblemen ; behind the Pallaviccino , the Doria , the families of Gentile , Verdure , Archerio , de Pastino and the ranked faces , filled with hate , of the soldiers , there stood the men hitherto guarded as hostages . |
| 8 | The wetlands , long regarded as wastes by generations of farmers , have been replaced by a harvest which fits the dictionary definition of ‘ waste ’ in every sense . |
| 9 | In many ways , the issue of knowledge acquisition has been one that has separated the practicable representations of natural language semantics from those that can only remain as theories in textbooks . |
| 10 | All fruits that naturally grow as trees , even if trained by gardeners into ornamental shapes , are normally grouped together as top or tree fruits . |
| 11 | The fungus lacks some proteolytic enzymes , which are added in the ant faeces and are derived from the gongylidia , the ants merely acting as translocators , their digestive tracts not breaking them down . |
| 12 | They do n't occur in any other plant families , and it seems almost certain that they somehow got into the pea family by cross-infection from animals , viruses perhaps acting as intermediaries . |
| 13 | Now Castle also includes obligations to make further payments under existing agreements , which were previously only noted as commitments in the notes to the accounts . |
| 14 | Computers are not only employed as tools for use within organizations . |
| 15 | so that we do n't all meet as strangers on the day . |
| 16 | But to her they merely served as spurs and she was used to those . |
| 17 | Because of their favourable prognosis , they were long known as pseudolymphomas , however , immunohistochemical methods have now shown that most of these tumours are monoclongla B cell proliferations . |
| 18 | The elements of punktitude are still apparent within my good degenerate self , however , and I have the impertinence to inform the masses of a quartet infamously known as Buzzcocks who seem to fit so neatly into the punk category , yet have been eschewed from all chances of recognition . |
| 19 | Charmingly known as Children of the Evening Star , these three lovely Greek goddesses guarded the golden apples which HERA received as a marriage gift . |
| 20 | Subsidies would be far better utilised as rewards for environmentally friendly farming methods or for protecting the countryside . |
| 21 | The staff , familiarly known as graders , are employed by the Commission , although their work is paid for by the Intervention Board . |
| 22 | The first two are better known as Times and Helvetica … |
| 23 | Maccheroni — better known as marcaroni . |
| 24 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 25 | Perhaps the facts are better viewed as ones of forgoing payment within para. ( b ) . |
| 26 | In the novels of the eighteenth century and Regency , the great houses of England occupy the foreground , while its cottages , when seen at all , are merely glimpsed as details in the scenery . |
| 27 | The underlying general principle has already been stated : persisting relationships only exist as feelings of indebtedness . |
| 28 | Somewhat later , James Eyre Weeks , James Woodhouse , John Bennett and Robert Bloomfield all worked as shoemakers . |
| 29 | That , however , is to ignore the reality of Arab politics , where governments are unrepresentative of popular will , and many have long functioned as clients for Western interests in the region . |
| 30 | She knew Claudia very well ; they used to go to parties together dressed as boys . |