Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] as [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for making up and imposition , the tasks most often cited as barred to women , they could certainly not be carried out by anyone who had not received a proper training , and were rightly regarded as skilled work . |
| 2 | Nowadays it is merely regarded as good luck . |
| 3 | With all these gifts , lightly worn , there went a swift wit and sense of fun which delighted his friends , an unexpected tenderness towards the misfortunes of others , and high purpose gently disguised as simple enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Tracy has a thing I can only describe as Non-specific pain . |
| 5 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 6 | Its presidium included Shevardnadze as chair , Dzhaba Iosseliani ( leader of the Mkhedrioni militia commander instrumental in toppling Gamsakhurdia ) as deputy chair , Tengiz Sigua ( hitherto acting as Prime Minister ) and Tengiz Kitovani ( head of the Georgian National Guard ) . |
| 7 | Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails . |
| 8 | Were it not better done as other use to sport with Amaryllis in the shade , or with the tangles of Nayera 's hair . ’ |
| 9 | Their recovery from graves shows that they were used as personal ornaments , but the discovery of large numbers in the peat bogs , sometimes enclosed in eared flasks , suggests that they were also used as votive offerings , a sign which suggests in itself that amber was regarded as precious enough to serve as conspicuous waste . |
| 10 | Therefore , in what now follows , since we shall be examining social reproduction , I only count as variable capital that which is actually apportioned to the workers , and surplus-value will constitute the whole of the social surplus-value . |
| 11 | The development of chaffinch song is most obviously classified as non-associative learning , because the bird learns its song by comparing it with a template rather than because of any consequence of singing a better chaffinch song . |
| 12 | When articulated in this way the Wilsonian social contract appears very close to what Sir Ian Gilmour ( 1978 ) has claimed is the essence of true and wise Toryism : the avoidance of ‘ dogma ’ ; the balancing of opposed social forces ; the concession of reform where reform is due in order to hold together a ‘ national ’ constituency ( despite the fact that Gilmour viewed the 1974/75 legislative programme as a dangerous concession to sectional union interests and a threat to the constitution — true Toryism is only recognised as such well after the event ! ) . |
| 13 | Occasionally she would allow her gaze to drop on to one of the other patients with a look which Theodora could only interpret as startled amazement . |
| 14 | Masculinization of social institutions is of course not necessarily displayed as overt sexism or discrimination . |
| 15 | These are companies , partnerships , unincorporated associations or trusts which are not large enough to qualify as ordinary business investors on the size test ( see page 36 below ) . |
| 16 | The rights and duties of individuals towards each other are together known as private law which in Anglo-Saxon countries , such as Britain and the United States , tends to derive from custom as incorporated by judges through time in what is known in Britain as the common law . |
| 17 | Stuart Errington was perhaps better known as Chief Executive and Chairman of Mercantile Credit ( and at different periods Chairman of the Finance Houses Association and the Equipment Leasing Association ) , but is now Chairman of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 18 | Traditionally , this cooling requirement has been accomplished using slices of solid carbon dioxide , better known as dry ice . |
| 19 | He said that it was obviously meant as some kind of warning . |
| 20 | East Berlin has four excellent establishments , all created as hard currency traps by the communists . |
| 21 | Actually , it 's not unlike an Precision bass pickup , only encapsulated as one unit . |
| 22 | Tree and shrub numbers greatly increase as grazing pressure increases but there is a decline in the productivity of grasses which also become more inaccessible to livestock as the canopy closes ; with moderate tree densities , grass productivity is enhanced . |
| 23 | These apparently doubled as personal air raid shelters . |
| 24 | Also the multi-talented winger/disco dancer Lee Sharpe ( Sharp with an ‘ E ’ — quite appropriate really ) who has now overcome the mystery illness , lately diagnosed as viral meningitis , and presumably contracted at one of the many ‘ raves ’ which young Lee ( with two ‘ E's ) likes to attend . |
| 25 | About seventy Terling households and eighteen non-residents were taxed , ten on their land , forty-nine on their goods , twelve on their wages and seventeen on their earnings ; the two latter categories are best explained as living-in farm servants and agricultural labourers . |
| 26 | They may require elements of microbiology and chemical science as well as organisational ability but they are still generally regarded as unskilled work . |
| 27 | Taken in isolation , it is a view that might be easily dismissed as trivial sentimentality . |
| 28 | I shall argue in Chapter 4 that most of the adolescent Creole users are best treated as second dialect speakers of Creole rather than second language learners . |
| 29 | An interconnectiveness between mind and matter is no longer regarded as mystic mumbo jumbo , but forms a vital ingredient in present scientific research into magnetic fields which have been found to influence the pattern and organization of any living thing , the alms of nature being wholeness , organization and continuity . |
| 30 | The proposed remedy is more detailed : ‘ Statements of attainment are best regarded as long term objectives which provide the framework , allowing teachers and pupils freedom to choose short term objectives and related activities , materials instructions and criteria ’ ( Reason 1989 : 150 ) . |