Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 2 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 3 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 4 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 5 | anyway erm and if P D er , remains a problem , or is n't gon na be addressed as far as the changes |
| 6 | Yet , as she watched him , perched as lithe as a cat on the prow , leaning back out over the waves to balance the little craft , his splendid chest scattered with little beads of water , Ronni was aware that she did n't really mean it . |
| 7 | And the odour can be carried as much as a mile away if the wind is blowing in that direction . |
| 8 | The assessment of oral skills is considered as important as the assessment of other skills |
| 9 | For this month 's design , as with all projects where the solution has n't come as quick as a flash of inspiration , I assembled in front of me everything that I had found interesting or been working on over the past few months . |
| 10 | When the specimen was loaded in a testing machine the edges were stressed as much as the middle and so cracks started at the edges and spread inwards across the material in the usual way . |
| 11 | Their pay varied , but very few girls in these occupations ever earned as much as the 12s-13s a week , which as we have seen is what a girl compositor could be earning by the time she was about 20 , with the ( limited but real ) possibility of earning more later . |
| 12 | Secondly , the struggle between Keynes and ‘ orthodoxy ’ has been depicted too much as a battle of theory , not enough as a conflict between rival conceptions of the art and duty of government . |
| 13 | It had grown less incongruous as the town grew towards it . |
| 14 | This is where dogs come into their own for they are not hampered so much as the rabbits and the odds are shortened in favour of the dog in every chase . |
| 15 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 16 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 17 | Hurrying back to the site , she had felt as nervous as a teenager going on her first date . |
| 18 | And Chaucer 's portrait of the miller has probably done as much as the hated medieval monopoly to give the miller a black mark . |
| 19 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 20 | Instead , the best accounts of the ‘ causes ’ of language are social and psychological , where language is seen as occurring as a result of interactions between people and their environments . |
| 21 | The rift between the two doctors had grown steadily wider as the siege progressed . |
| 22 | But at the moment , automating the payment cycle is seen very much as a second phase , so AEI is n't taking any electronic payments from customers . |
| 23 | Relying on drugs for this purpose should be seen very much as the last resort , however , and the huge majority of dogs adapt to this form of transportation without difficulty , from an early age . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 've spent a year doing what the Thing 's told me and I 've never had so much as a ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Masklin . |
| 25 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 26 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 27 | They 'd have had four times more FAKINTIL deserters if they 'd shown as little as a quarter extra clemency . |
| 28 | Bill Lockhart and Betty Street have also achieved international fame for the quilted effects on their Texan creations , where the sewing skills are admired as much as the medley of geometric colour patterns . |
| 29 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 30 | I mean I , I , I , I 've had as many as a thousand marbles in a bag . |