Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly the curriculum ‘ must promote development in all the main areas of learning and experience which are widely accepted as important ’ . |
| 2 | Even with the ending of East-West confrontations and the prospect of nuclear armouries being run down rapidly , it is hard to imagine a world in which civil reactors are widely regarded as safe and the problems of acceptable disposal of nuclear wastes are overcome . |
| 3 | Rushdie 's book The Satanic Verses had been widely condemned as blasphemous by the Moslem community . |
| 4 | The present leasehold system affects an estimated three million owners and has been widely condemned as unfair and archaic . |
| 5 | It has been widely criticized as inequitable , because all those who are not exempt pay the same rate , regardless of income . |
| 6 | The growth of executive power at the expense of legislative authority has been widely recognized as another feature of capitalism affecting bureaucracy , especially as capitalism moves through its monopoly phase , or as the class struggle intensifies and threatens the process of capital accumulattion . |
| 7 | But the Quebec offer has been widely criticised as inadequate . |
| 8 | The Huyghes ' administration of the museum , which had an average of only fifteen to twenty visitors a day , has been widely criticised as dusty , to say the least , the heavy-handedness and the sheer malice of the campaign against them may be due to clan warfare within the Institut de France and may also have political roots Jean-Paul Scarpitta , for example , was a personal friend of Président Mitterrand 's wife Danièle . |
| 9 | It had been widely denounced as disastrous both for the environment and the local Auyu forest people , whose traditional lands would be devastated [ see ED 46 for a detailed account of the project ] . |
| 10 | Eastern bloc countries are uniformly analysed as quasi-totalitarian regimes controlled by a unified , corporate ( single body ) elite , which fuses political and administrative powers and monopolizes all decision-making . |
| 11 | For instance , it has been reported ( 15 ) that after propagation in S.cerevisiae , YAC vectors are rarely replicated as linear minichromosomes when transferred into S. pombe cells . |
| 12 | ( iv ) When the actor engages in the medical treatment or examination of the victim in a manner or for purposes which are medically recognized as unethical or unacceptable . |
| 13 | Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat . |
| 14 | It has been claimed by some writers that distinctive feature analysis is not irrelevant to the study of language learning , and that pronunciation difficulties experienced by learners are better seen as due to the need to learn a particular feature or combination of features than as the absence of particular phonemes . |
| 15 | Although some of these community norms that we have mentioned above may be recognized by outsiders as regional or social markers , many others are better described as internal : they mark social differences inside the community . |
| 16 | My own feeling is that we at least need to start where the children feel most comfortable , and then to introduce elements which are better described as mythic rather than fantastic ; that is , to dramatise or create stories which contain imagery and symbolism which are likely to excite the children , and yet which they can relate to their own lives . |
| 17 | But you are only protected as long as you keep your side of the arrangement . |
| 18 | Students are normally placed as English language assistants in schools or enrolled as students in a French university . |
| 19 | Thus , a use of eloquent formal language , a confident employment of a literary heritage , and a preoccupation with either metaphysical themes or the large issues of state of especial interest to those in the governing classes are normally upheld as critical sign-posts directing us to the period 's ‘ greatest ’ writing . |
| 20 | The other notable exceptions are ‘ ordinary wear and tear , ordinary leakage and breakage , inherent vice of the subject matter insured ’ — although these are normally expressed as specific exclusions on the face of the Policy , it should be borne in mind that we have these defences at law . |
| 21 | However , its physical beauty is unsurpassed and silk rugs are normally used as decorative , rather than functional examples of textile art — either as wall-hangings , or floor coverings in rooms that rarely see practical use . |
| 22 | In addition to those churches which are organised along denominational lines there are many congregations in England which are best described as ecumenical , for they generally contain members from a variety of churches , or from none . |
| 23 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 24 | They have to be subjected to a rigorous trial by doubt , and only those considered ‘ indubitable ’ or ‘ certain beyond any shadow of doubt ’ are finally accepted as true . |
| 25 | This being said , and allowing for the fact that much which was viewed as sexually deviant a generation ago is now viewed tolerantly if not taken for granted , a few words may be said about some practices or groups of practices which are generally recognised as deviant from either the normal object , the normal aim or the normal focal issues of sexuality . |
| 26 | Their fossil remains seem to occur with other animals and plants , which are generally accepted as terrestrial . |
| 27 | Social order can be found in events that are generally seen as dangerous and irrational . |
| 28 | They are generally seen as anti-competitive and necessitating legislation to proscribe them , since they almost invariably create the detrimental effects of monopoly without engendering the benefits . |
| 29 | The theme stressed by Johnson Mattheys voluntary presenter , Peter Skinner , from the Chemicals and Process Development group at Royston , was that although precious metals are generally regarded as rare and costly their unique properties ensure that they are of surprising benefit to Society in many areas of everyday life . |
| 30 | But it is certainly er a body which is er recognised as responsible and indeed in er tax law and in various other ways er its promulgations and the standards that it sets are are generally regarded as acceptable but these matters of course are kept under review . |