Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibrahim was widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the Maldives , after his brother-in-law , President Gayoom . |
| 2 | The move was widely regarded as the first step towards full normalization of diplomatic relations , which had been suspended after the communist victory in the Vietnam war in 1975 . |
| 3 | The Republic of Indonesia comprises mainly some 13,700 islands known until 1949 as the Netherlands East Indies ; since 1976 it has also included East Timor ( when the latter was effectively annexed as the 27th Indonesian province after the withdrawal in 1975 of Portuguese troops , although this act has never been officially recognized by the UN ) . |
| 4 | He said it was clear that the government had only joined as a last resort to try and solve the country 's economic problems . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Blackpool Tramway is rightly claimed as the first and last street tramway and unique in many other ways . |
| 7 | Amateur Champion Stephen Dundas was only named as the first reserve … |
| 8 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 9 | For products that are expensive and only used sporadically an unattractive product may be chosen if it has an exceptional performance as its handling characteristics will ensure that it is only used as a last resort and not used casually when other cheaper products would suffice . |
| 10 | As for the famous stinging tail , it 's only used as a last resort . |
| 11 | Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort . |
| 12 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 13 | This should only happen as a last resort in exceptional circumstances and if it does , you should take legal advice as soon as possible . |
| 14 | The decomposition of observed unemployment rates into their classical and Keynesian parts can only serve as a first step in the formulation of macroeconomic policy since such an exercise must take place within a broader framework which encompasses concepts such as short- and long-run Phillips curves , the natural unemployment rate , and NAIRU . |
| 15 | Thus it could be argued that children only psychologize as a last resort when they do not have ready access to information about plausible causal mechanisms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although the government eventually decided to accept royalties from sales of the chip rather than to take an equity share in the company , it was widely seen as the last straw in a conflict between Fields and the administration . |
| 18 | In general , they found that parents regarded care on a voluntary basis as helpful and positive — a service to families in times of difficulty that should be more readily offered , not treated as a last resort . |
| 19 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 20 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 21 | Already tipped as the next major band to emerge from the North West , they play Cambridge Junction on November 26 , then Leeds Warehouse 27 , Newcastle Riverside 28 , Dundee Bar Chevrolet 29 , Glasgow King Tut 's Wah Wah Hut 30 , Norwich Waterfront December 5 , Portsmouth Polytechnic 7 , Sheffield Leadmill 8 , Liverpool Polytechnic 9 and London Ladbroke Grove Subterania 10 . |
| 22 | Rushdie might only just qualify as a Third World novelist . |
| 23 | In either case it is generally seen as a last resort . |
| 24 | The Sergeant was played by William Hartnell , best known as the first of TV 's Dr Who . |
| 25 | We 're not known as the first in Pest Control for nothing . |
| 26 | Joe is , of course , best remembered as the first professional to overcome what had grown into a hoodoo . |
| 27 | Consider Best Bars as a first resort , regard the single cocktail you 'll shell out for as sheer investment , get yourself gift wrapped , send for our jetset silklook shirt , rid yourself of even that inch-of-pinch and the body beautiful will be guaranteed bait for ace race driver or millionaire financier in advanced stages of senility . |
| 28 | The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents . |
| 29 | We see also how forgery was long resisted , then finally and fatally adopted as a last resort . |
| 30 | Aries is always classed as the first constellation of the Zodiac , though by now the First Point of Aries ( the position where the ecliptic cuts the equator ) has shifted into the adjacent constellation of Pisces . |