Example sentences of "as [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So today the needs of the mentally ill and handicapped are seen as demanding a wide range of facilities : homes , centres , clinics and so forth , served by doctors , nurses , teachers , psychologists , psychotherapists , speech therapists and residential care workers , linked by a body of trained social workers and placed within a tolerant , accepting and truly caring community . |
| 2 | The multiple choice format can , in this case , be thought of as demanding a similar sort of thinking to that required when checking an answer obtained by measurement or calculation to see if it is sensible . |
| 3 | It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . |
| 4 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 5 | From the Merovingians to the Habsburgs , European dynasties regarded themselves , and were regarded by their subjects , as enjoying a unique mandate from ‘ on high ’ . |
| 6 | On the plus side , you will be saving on travel and other work-related expenses as well as enjoying a welcome reduction in tax . |
| 7 | I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light . |
| 8 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 9 | Haughey 's espousal of liberal reforms was seen as a response to the shock result of the November 1990 presidential election [ see p. 37868 ] , in which the victory of Mary Robinson , a woman supported by the Labour Party and the Workers ' Party , was seen as reflecting a major shift in voters ' attitudes and a challenge to the traditional political dominance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael . |
| 10 | As well as maintaining a good posture , women were expected to move with grace , which was the principal reason for dancing lessons A woman attempting to achieve this ideal of beauty needed to spend a great deal of money , and so labouring class women were automatically excluded , even if they were possessed of ‘ natural ’ beauty . |
| 11 | The aim of the revised features is to up-date the scheme at the same time as maintaining a good balance between technical skills and design with the retention of a grading system . |
| 12 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 13 | Talking of films , Meier is still working on his wild , underground epic , Snowball , as well as producing a new Hollywood movie called MM , about some lass called Marilyn Monroe . |
| 14 | The guitar has a fair amount of natural sustain and the three Chandler pickups emphasise this , as well as producing a warm tone with enough cut to sound through . |
| 15 | When the draft report was issued in May , it was universally welcomed as heralding a major step forward in the way that UK listed companies should be run . |
| 16 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 17 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 18 | For example , to commemorate a wood anniversary , as well as using a wooden frame , you could make a collage with pressed pieces of bark from a variety of trees . |
| 19 | In terms of speed , we found , using the parallel cabling ( and it 's a special cable , so not just any old parallel cable will do ) that response from server to client was as quick as using a native drive . |
| 20 | They undertook the extensive analysis of various documents , compiled statistics of their own , made use of officially provided statistics and other materials , such as records , participated in community events and organisations , interviewed various members of the community in depth as well as administering a standardised questionnaire to various sets of people . |
| 21 | Efficient management includes knowing how to handle people as well as organizing a smooth-running machine . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , Harp Lager who have been behind the new building all along , are to be congratulated on their commitment to Down Royal and also for making sure that the flagship of racing on the track , the Ulster Harp Derby , has been boosted financially as well as given a new look . |
| 23 | As well as including a wide range of subjects relevant to the study of accountancy , the course includes a practical computer workshop in each year of the degree . |
| 24 | When attention moves from behaviour at the individual to the organisational level , it is argued that since organisations are not unitary actors , but are made up of individuals and groups with competing interests and objectives , companies can not be understood as pursuing a single goal , but rather a range of conflicting goals . |
| 25 | The project was to be funded for one year with money from the Telethon Trust , which paid for the author 's post , that of development worker , as well as allowing a substantial budget ; the overall aim was to establish a leisure service for disabled people within the Northern Health Region . |
| 26 | Too often a job , any job , for a refugee child was seen as bestowing a great favour in return for which sacrifices were expected . |
| 27 | It was as simple as catching a falling cup . |
| 28 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 29 | Officials have placed adverts in the British Medical Journal on behalf of the emirate , in a move which Labour has condemned as encouraging a medical brain drain . |
| 30 | As well as becoming a superb calligrapher , he was an expert conjurer , performed on musical instruments , played a variety of games and could thread a needle with the best . |