Example sentences of "[vb pp] as [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debate in the early days of the new Assembly was reported as more lively than previously , and opposition members were said to be testing the government 's receptiveness to reform : 32 members called for the formation of a committee to investigate Kuwait 's failure to anticipate or respond to the Iraqi invasion of August 1990 [ see pp. 37631-41 ] ; several members were said to have demanded an investigation of alleged mishandling of Kuwait 's overseas investments ; and a draft law was introduced that would widen the franchise , including extending the vote to women . |
| 2 | General and life insurers and securities traders were reported as more optimistic . |
| 3 | Over the past year , many a fund manager has had his confidence shattered as supposedly reliable shares that were the solid core of his portfolio — IBM , Merck , Kellogg , Philip Morris — crashed out of a clear blue sky . |
| 4 | Yes er we 've five games now and er although we have n't won as as many as I would 've liked at least erm we 've stayed unbeaten . |
| 5 | With the rise of theories purporting to identify this phenomenon of underdevelopment and to explain it as an active process in the global strategy of capitalist exploitation , First , Second and Third Worlds , despite the emphasis on the nation-state , were usually conceptualized as relatively undifferentiated objects . |
| 6 | In the censorship scale obscene literature might be rated as less serious than racist literature but both would have to defer to seditious literature which normally does not find its way on to library shelves . |
| 7 | Money and sex are both rated as less important than you might expect . |
| 8 | Both inspectors are presented as more interesting than the colleagues and suspects they move among . |
| 9 | Similarly as a ‘ tribe ’ , rather than a nation , the English ( and humanity ) are revealed as more vulnerable . |
| 10 | Erm a park tends to give the impression of being like a memorial park , erm equally it 's not just earmarked for football , which is it could be er seen as just that , the idea was that it would provide facilities for all types of sports and interests throughout the er throughout the area , particularly er girls , I know girls play football but there 's a lot of interest in er sport particularly hockey , and I personally would n't like to see it just dominated by football . |
| 11 | That is what they 're saying and I think that that can only be seen as eminently reasonable and I think that that Edward has hit the nail right on the head when he says look if this issue is not properly considered locally there can be no alternative if Government fails in its duty to call it in in the in the interests of of the local communities and the region at large , then it will have to go to Brussels . |
| 12 | They 've been seen as too aggressive and too greedy . |
| 13 | Asian clients tended to be seen as less criminal , to lack credibility as witnesses , and to be industrious and family-minded . |
| 14 | Men die to win democracy for their countries , which after a while is taken grudgingly ; and its practitioners come to be seen as less skilled , worthy and entertaining than the aristocrats of sport . |
| 15 | Sport becomes relegated to the peripheries , whereas , for many black kids , it retains centrality — not because the other areas are seen as worse risks , but because they are seen as less accessible , they believe there are only a limited number of entrances to the upper reaches of the employment world . |
| 16 | Often , it was not only the arts which were seen as less useful , but university subjects like physics : the physical science degree was regarded as one which was more useful for getting jobs in industry . |
| 17 | The word ‘ mothering ’ is sexist in many contexts because it reinforces the ‘ natural ’ connection of women with children and childcare — a connection that feminists have criticised , since under our present social arrangements it has the entirely sexist consequences of defining non-mothers as non-women , restricting women 's opportunities to do other things if they wish , exploiting their unpaid labour and in some cases causing them to be seen as less important than the children they give birth to . |
| 18 | But she challenges the assumption that services like postoperative pain control or the provision of medical cover to surgical patients should be seen as less important . |
| 19 | The health of their families was clearly seen as less important to society . |
| 20 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 21 | But when they were originally written erm I think it were f seen as fairly low key but now they 've taken , assumed a much greater importance in terms of them being the actual service specification for the new careers services under the , the employment legislation . |
| 22 | It is a fallacy to regard that process as some kind of negative slippery slope along which each reluctant step should be seen as more sinful than the last . |
| 23 | These beleaguered firms are still seen as what a national newspaper journalist has called the " barrow boys " of the share industry , whereas stockbrokers are seen as more respectable . |
| 24 | Manual systems , being more flexible , were sometimes seen as more informative than computer-based systems . |
| 25 | The training managers , dealing managers , compliance officers , and most of all directors of licensed dealers are seen as more tainted by prevalent sharp practice than the salesmen , due to their greater organisation and decision-making responsibilities . |
| 26 | This may be so for some cultures where the taboos of the kind mentioned by Freud exist , but it can not account for all the taboos and rites surrounding the dead in cultures where the dead are seen as more friendly . |
| 27 | It allows a relationship between professionals to develop which is unlikely to be disrupted by what are seen as more ephemeral shifts within local electoral politics . |
| 28 | Also whether services are seen as more appropriate for health board , social work or voluntary organisations . |
| 29 | course content — was seen as more appropriate elsewhere |
| 30 | Profit has been seen as more pursuable than collective concern for others . |