Example sentences of "as [adj] [coord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In orthodox families , educated women are seen as destructive and potentially immoral , and an educated daughter is a source of scandal and potential family dishonour . |
| 2 | By the 1840s the transmutationist challenge was ebbing , Grant was losing influence and the whole movement had been labelled as irreligious and potentially subversive . |
| 3 | It is open to the parties to use a description as broad or as narrow as they choose . |
| 4 | If mixing is seen as possible or even beneficial , then what is the best mix in each type of organisation ? |
| 5 | Such discrepancies can not be viewed as accidental or simply self-chosen . |
| 6 | An extraordinary oil entitled ‘ Watchers by the Sea ’ ( private collection ) pictures women as strong and sexually assertive beings in their own right , quite unlike Lilith . |
| 7 | Poised , suggestive , but nowhere near as funny or as savage as it should have been . |
| 8 | On human rights , many consider the torture , disappearances , murders and bombings of innocent civilians as unpleasant but absolutely necessary elements of the war . |
| 9 | As middle- and even working-class interests challenged the established social order , science was often employed as a symbolic arena in which to fight ideological battles . |
| 10 | Must there always be a two-way element , or are there circumstances in which a one-way flow of support is regarded as acceptable and even appropriate ? |
| 11 | The elderly admirer is Nestor himself in a false beard and Irma , who is clearly short sighted as well as dim and really nice , hardly notices the difference . |
| 12 | Constituents may be vocal in demanding what are seen as cruder and more punitive measures than their MP feels comfortable with . |
| 13 | Up to half a dozen years ago any invitation by the government that offered users meaningful involvement in planning community care would have been seen as unrealistic and even cynical . |
| 14 | They argued that although sabotage is usually regarded as irrational or even pathological behaviour , careful investigation shows that ‘ in many cases the meanings which inform sabotage are explicitly intentional ’ . |
| 15 | Although for many years retributivism was regarded ( at least in academic circles ) as outmoded and even atavistic , it has enjoyed a major revival in recent years , notably in the forms of the ‘ Justice Model ’ and ‘ law and order ideology ’ discussed later in this chapter . |
| 16 | I confess I have never met any woman as shrewish or as critical as you ! ’ |
| 17 | Their larger relatives regard Snotlings with a certain amount of affection and treat them as wayward and rather mischievous pets . |
| 18 | It we further remark the way sexual difference is oft en presented within psychoanalysis as unavoidable and ineluctably fraught with pain , so much so in some cases that it warrants description as a tragic ontology , it becomes tempting to dismiss it as an expression of existential Angst suitably dressed in pretentious intellectual rigour and elegant abstraction , and , as such ( some might add ) , the epitome of psychoanalysis itself . |
| 19 | By the inter-war years married women were no longer regarded primarily as ornamental and sexually innocent creatures ; the ideal companionate marriage also involved an expectation of sexual harmony . |
| 20 | The intent is to define some wide group of animals — say , mammals or vertebrates — as sentient and therefore capable of feeling pain . |
| 21 | Other secondary minerals formed during weathering include those composed of oxides and hydroxides of iron and aluminium and , less significantly , of titanium oxide , as well as amorphous or finely crystalline silica . |
| 22 | He 's described as affable but often absent . |
| 23 | Yet even Renan 's treatment was to be regarded as saccharine and uncritically sentimental by the generation of Modernists who had begun to appear in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | The transfer of ideas between scientists , disregarding for the moment the nature of the medium used for exchange , can be described either as personal or as formal . |
| 25 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 26 | As you become more familiar with the subject , after repeated reviews , data can be found and appreciated if you have made the pages of your textbooks as individual and readily recognisable as the pages of your notes . |
| 27 | But if Greek literacy is not , in fact , as easy or as unambiguous as Goody sometimes claims , then its ‘ implications ’ may not be so important as those claims assert . |
| 28 | The two elements need to be understood as distinct and often disjointed moments of state policy . |
| 29 | One of the major criticisms of these previous theories has been that they have tended to see their subject matter ( that is , rule-breaking ) as straightforward and easily identifiable — crime being behaviour that breaks certain of the rules of society . |
| 30 | One of these philosophers presses on forward , with agreeable audacity , to characterize the view I have expounded as Idealist or even Scholastic . |