Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] as [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided that , in the circumstances of that case , the discretion should be so exercised as not to require an undertaking in damages from the Crown . |
| 2 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 3 | Olivier 's performance in this role is generally regarded as somewhat flattering . |
| 4 | Although there was evidence of cosmic order in the motions of sun , moon , and stars and in the cycle of the seasons , this order was not regarded as securely established but had continually to be achieved by the integration of conflicting divine wills or powers . |
| 5 | Whether or not third States are finally included as indirectly injured States in the terms of Draft Article 5 ( 3 ) , development of international law in this respect is crucial to an examination of the rights and obligations of third parties . |
| 6 | Both she and Patsy still had to sleep in a cot because their father had not bothered as yet to buy them each a proper bed . |
| 7 | You 've not got as well have you ? |
| 8 | At the same time , in a quite different direction , the ‘ arts ’ run through into areas of human thought and discourse — values , truths , ideas , observations , reports — where , though the ‘ aesthetic ’ perceptions may be still quite relevant , they can not be and in practice are not taken as wholly defining . |
| 9 | In ( 145 ) and ( 146 ) , the subject of cause is clearly a condition , and the to infinitive evokes its consequence : the causal agent is not conceived as actually doing anything in either of these sentences but merely as having been the condition giving rise to a new state of affairs . |
| 10 | So the general point about this literature is that oppositional youth cultures amongst working class youth are still envisaged as closely linked not just to wider public values but to middle class public values . |
| 11 | They are then chilled and filtered to remove the remaining yeast and are usually pasteurised as well to ensure that death is complete . |
| 12 | But that left open a further question which concerned Brunner deeply : what was the connection between that unique revelation and three other more general areas : the whole universe as God 's creation ; the existence of human beings as ‘ made in the image of God ’ , albeit as ‘ fallen ’ they have in some fashion lost or disfigured that ‘ image ’ ; and the ordering of human life and society by such institutions as marriage and the state , which theology had traditionally treated as divinely ordained ? |
| 13 | Whilst the heads as a whole should be marked ‘ subject to contract and not legally binding ’ , where the heads refer to confidentiality and exclusivity these clauses should be expressly marked as legally binding . |
| 14 | Parents were still placed under enormous pressure to choose specialist resources ‘ in the interests of the child ’ : integrated placements were often presented as chiefly fulfilling a selfish need of the parents to deny their child 's special needs . |
| 15 | They are often written as well to support private ventures by British firms , which are showing promise , but need a Staff Target or Operational Requirement before they can be given official consideration . |
| 16 | One official said : ‘ Pilots are often seen as above reproach . |
| 17 | It is just this point that is made by Lado , whose approach to language teaching is so often represented as directly opposed to the development of communicative abilities : |
| 18 | Labour is typically characterised as simply waiting to be either exploited or abandoned by capital . |
| 19 | Today many inequalities are increasingly seen as socially determined and their defence has become both more difficult and more sophisticated . |
| 20 | Bransford and Franks found that only sentences which contained one piece of information , or information from different sets , could be reliably identified as not having been heard before . |
| 21 | The relationship between Bhutto and the President , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , also became increasingly strained as both sought to establish the limits of their authority . |
| 22 | Gauze screens fitted to the doors and windows were tightly closed as always to deny the plantation 's malaria bearing mosquitoes access to the presence of Claude Duclos , a heavily built Corsican in his early forties who was sprawled in a wickerwork chair under the cooling breeze of an electric fan . |
| 23 | They suggest that vulnerability factors are usefully conceived as only raising the risk of depression in the presence of a provoking agent . |
| 24 | In the South Wales case , for example , there is a zone called the ‘ golden triangle ’ which is widely perceived as especially attuned to the specifications of the new , ‘ high tec ’ , mainly Japanese industries . |
| 25 | The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded . |
| 26 | Blues too is commonly regarded as centrally to do with the expression of alienated subjectivity caught within oppressive social structures ; in a previous book ( Middle ton 1972 ) I argued that the effects of this are apparent in the musical form itself-in disjunctive structures , an immanently contradictory musical language and a commitment to ‘ authentic ’ self-expression — and I drew parallels with modernist art . |
| 27 | There are no population estimates , but the tucuxi is currently listed as highly endangered . |
| 28 | The " main purpose and aim of the study of English literature " is to build " a constant habit of mind , since the mind when thus disposed , and only when thus disposed , can be truly described as liberally educated " . " |