Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 2 | " Datachase " had three main objectives : to encourage young people to learn about environmental issues ; to help students develop presentation and creative skills through the use of computers , and to demonstrate how problems can often be most successfully solved as a result of collaborative effort . |
| 3 | Part of the burden was thereby eventually eliminated as the prices of advanced countries ' exports to the primary producers rose — reducing the deterioration in the terms of trade . |
| 4 | Strictly speaking , this alternative ‘ mental ’ element is not a mens rea requirement at all , although it is properly enough described as a fault element . |
| 5 | He was not only widely respected as a critic but also regarded with affection for the genuine humility which made him always interested in others ' opinions . |
| 6 | A collection so rarely seen as a compact whole , provided many with an eye opener as to the quality and range of the work housed in the University corridors and offices . |
| 7 | It 's selling half a million snails every year , and they 're becoming so widely accepted as a food that they 're even being sold on the supermarket shelves . |
| 8 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 9 | For these reasons , Coffin is perhaps better seen as a case in which the Divisional Court , contrary to the evidence , concluded that the situation was such that a breach of the peace was likely , and that the officers were seeking to prevent that at the time when the assault took place . |
| 10 | There are two good examples of this in the British Museum 's Roman sculpture collections : the ‘ Spinario ’ , a boy removing a thorn from his foot , and ‘ Clytie ’ , long taken to be a portrait of the emperor Claudius ' mother , the younger Antonia , but perhaps better identified as a personification of one of the nations defeated by Augustus . |
| 11 | However , up to the time of his partnership agreement with Scott , he had only completed approximately ten buildings , and was perhaps better known as a writer and administrator . |
| 12 | Their father , Dr. William Shippen ( 1635–1693 ) was a native of Stockport who enjoyed a varied ecclesiastical career , returning to his home town in 1678 to become Rector : his younger brother , Edward , first Mayor of Philadelphia in the then American colonies , is perhaps better remembered as the founder of the wealthy transatlantic branch of the family . |
| 13 | Indeed , Darwin 's proposal is much better seen as a theory about the origin of adaptations than as a theory about the origin of species . |
| 14 | Major Iron Age stronghold , but much better known as the capital of the Ancient Nabataeans , fourth century BC to sixth century AD . |
| 15 | He was also a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers , putting in much work as the first secretary of the West Indian Players ' Association . |
| 16 | Interesting too was the conclusion that BS5750 , for so long regarded as the quality benchmark for British industry , is out of date and no longer relevant to the demands of the current marketplace . |
| 17 | In serving the interest of some rather than all , the 1988 Education Reform Act may come to be judged as an impediment to the creation of that equality of outcomes so long seen as an essential right of all citizens . |
| 18 | Since last year , homosexuals — so long seen as the weak link — can join the secret services . |
| 19 | Equally notable has been the worsening relationship with leaders of the Church of England — for so long known as the Tory party at prayer . |
| 20 | Walpole , who has been traditionally and perhaps wrongly regarded as the first British Prime Minister , always took pains to deny that he occupied such a position . |
| 21 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |
| 22 | He was surely right to caution that the declaration of a right by a court is perhaps best viewed as the beginning of a political process in which power relationships loom large and immediate . |
| 23 | Apart from its convenience as a legitimation of the rule of white over coloured , rich over poor , it is perhaps best explained as a mechanism by means of which a fundamentally inegalitarian society based upon a fundamentally egalitarian ideology rationalised its inequalities , and attempted to justify and defend those privileges which the democracy implicit in its institutions must inevitably challenge . |
| 24 | The golillas 's conflict with the so-called military aristocracy , if it represents anything , is perhaps best considered as a foretaste of the nineteenth-century conflict between soldiers and civilians . |
| 25 | I mean he 's obviously not qualified as a doctor . |
| 26 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 27 | The second half of February was much more unsettled as an area of high pressure persisted in the eastern Atlantic , allowing frontal troughs to topple over its northeastern flank into Scotland . |
| 28 | There were still traces of ethnocentrism in the nationalist viewpoint elsewhere in the report : for instance , they still referred to ‘ the historic integrity of Ireland ’ ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : i. 28 ) , implying an almost naturalistic concept of Irish unity , when as a political unit Ireland only ever existed as a British-administered territory . |
| 29 | As a preliminary statement we can say that the equation : is at best only ever achieved as a momentary or fleeting condition . |
| 30 | The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available . |