Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the chance to split votes is from the British standpoint a novelty which a commentator can not ignore , it should not be regarded as more than a minor feature of the WGMS . |
| 2 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 3 | But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door . |
| 4 | One of the options it allows a speaker is to select the element acting as subject as a marked thematic choice , an option not normally available since the subject is the unmarked theme of a declarative clause in English . |
| 5 | So the foreign holidays , because you 're guaranteed sunshine , cheap alcohol , everything else , somehow being seen as better than the traditional British holiday . |
| 6 | The correlations given with whether the junction was previously known or not is a point biserial correlation with data from all 30 subjects potentially available , data was coded as 1 if the junction was previously known and 0 if unknown . |
| 7 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 8 | She certainly did not live in the shadow of John ; she was her own person and deserved to be described as more than a widow . |