Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps some sense can be made of regarding hypothetical imperatives as objectively true , since they can be taken as statements about what needs to be done to achieve something , but how can there be a categorical imperative , with no one to command it ? |
| 2 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 3 | Certainly the titles encourage the spectator to identify some forms as almost figurative . |
| 4 | It was also commonly described by an interpretation of modern society as ‘ mass society ’ , in which such different elements as very large audiences , relative ‘ impersonality ’ of transmission or ‘ anonymity ’ of reception , and the ‘ unorganized heterogeneity ’ of ‘ democratic and commercial ’ societies were fused and indeed confused . |
| 5 | Grain stress the urgency of preserving old varieties as both disease-resistant strains and ones that will thrive without high levels of pesticide or fertilizer application . |
| 6 | He regarded Scottish nationalists as often mischievous and self-seeking , and would have relished John Major 's recent championing of the Union . |
| 7 | The important finding which appears in Study 3 but which did not in Groeger and Chapman study is the tendency for subjects to rate the risky situations as significantly lower on normality but higher on speed . |
| 8 | This strategy is simply to defend existing institutions and social relations as naturally right and inevitable . |
| 9 | Nor were foreign diplomats as yet much more welcome in Russia than during the sixteenth century . |
| 10 | One justification , therefore , for using ‘ race ’ and sex as significant divisions is that these designate important cultural differences as educationally relevant . |
| 11 | I is there anything you can tell us about the additional costs of er er increased specifications , there have been some increases as well minor reductions . |
| 12 | Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community . |
| 13 | It would be easy to dismiss scanned photographs as simply worthless and suggest that you just leave a gap in the page and let your printer look after the problem for you . |
| 14 | The New Zealand Council for Educational Research identified women , Maori , Pacific Islanders and other non-Europeans , the poor , disabled and rural dwellers as educationally disadvantaged . |
| 15 | After World War II , the motor car had a significant impact on the travelling public , and lorries and buses took a considerable amount of business from the railway , so it was inevitable that the railway management , casting a critical eye over branch line expenditure , however scenic , considered most of these rural lines as financially unviable . |
| 16 | Fears that there could be many such cases as yet undetected prompted reports that the Finance Ministry intended to investigate 300 non-banking institutions , such as leasing companies and consumer credit firms , which had issued loans using deposit certificates as collateral . |
| 17 | There will inevitably be some changes , some leads swapping about , some instant titles as yet unknown , but in the main , after my quick skim over the first four months , I have attempted to give you an overall picture of what will undoubtedly be a very busy year . |
| 18 | Er I 'd prefer to tailor it maybe to er suit each employer and to ask permission from er the other six branches as well first . |
| 19 | First , Rutter regards as comparatively small the reductions of two to seven points in IQ now being associated with lead pollution , whereas I view such effects as extremely serious when they are suffered by a major proportion of a whole generation of urban children . |
| 20 | ( i ) the addition of extra hardware boards or components in the computer can , with suitable software , provide such things as fast floating-point arithmetic ( making calculations significantly faster ) , medium- or high-resolution graphics up to a grid of ( say ) 500 by 500 points , sound and voice synthesis , colour output , a real-time clock , and standard device controllers . |
| 21 | 6.2 We agree with Bolinger that there are such things as distinctively sense-qualifying adjectives ( although not many of them , and certainly only a small proportion of those that he suggests ) ; we shall take the view that these are restricted to prenominal attributive position , with predicative position reserved solely for referent-qualification . |
| 22 | Inescapably , they must retain such things as overall financial control , a determination of the size of a school 's teaching and ancillary staff , and major decisions about buildings , although many conclusions on these matters are reached only after an ebb and flow of consultation and representation . |
| 23 | Sitting on a rock , arguing over the remains of a goat , are three Ogres — if there are such things as especially stupid Ogres , it 's these three . |
| 24 | To derive appropriate interpretations for its input , a natural language processing ( NLP ) system must take account not only of absolute constraints on possible structures and meanings but also of preferences that serve not to rule out individual readings as inherently unacceptable , but to give priority to more acceptable readings over less acceptable ones . |
| 25 | So the latest version of Lotus 1-2-3 includes such delights as fully customizable Lotus Smart Icons , mouse support and better printer drivers . |
| 26 | Such factors as poorly organised workstations , stress and low motivation , can cause or aggravate feelings of illness or tiredness . |
| 27 | It has been clear for some time that there are a number of significant practical problems with the interpretation of SSAP 6 , Extraordinary Items and Prior Year Adjustments , particularly in respect of the variety of treatments of apparently similar events as sometimes ordinary and sometimes extraordinary items in the p&l account . |
| 28 | So although memory , for example , ha is three times as more likely to appear on the paper than say , what is psychology or groups or perception , it 's nonetheless possible that perception , groups or what is psychology could appear . |
| 29 | However , conventionally , which is not to say correctly , modes of social scientific explanation tend to see these elements as analytically separate orders of phenomena and , accordingly , data . |
| 30 | The Transport and General Workers Union said it saw seasonal workers as potentially ripe for recruitment precisely because a considerable number returned to the same job year after year ( see Financial Times , 7/1/87 ) . |