Example sentences of "be [vb pp] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there is no preparedness to see extensive nationalization of the worst offending corporations and if there is no political or national will to place public officials on the boards of directors to guarantee that ‘ our ’ interests are given as much consideration as those of the corporation , then clearly the will to control corporations has atrophied in the withering light of pragmatism . |
| 2 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 3 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 4 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 5 | Until recently , the Aborigines have always been regarded as little more than the exceptional survivors of prehistoric man , a view based primarily on the materialistic aspects of their culture , its ‘ hardware ’ . |
| 6 | Reaction was firmly enthroned , and when during the parliamentary debate on the Security from Violence Bill one MP voiced the belief that ‘ the want of employment was the parent of crime ’ , this seems to have been regarded as little more than a sentimental eccentricity . |
| 7 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 8 | They have been attracted as much by the intellectual image as by the high level of celebrity support from artists like John Cleese , Peter Gabriel and Sting . |
| 9 | The development of Defence policy since the Second World War has been dominated as much by efforts to find ways off the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ as by the struggle for resources in the Whitehall market-place . |
| 10 | Though the big R100 BMW has been designed as much for cross-country work as for the road , the wheels bucked and skidded in the grey waterlogged soil as Trent fought the handlebars , weaving between scrub bush and clumps of hagara grass . |
| 11 | In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation . |
| 12 | If so , what was this creature , that had stood before him naked and singular , but concealed multitudes ? ; this power Chant had said possessed no friends ( it has only ADORERS AND UNDOERS , he 'd written ) and had been done as much harm in these dealings ( again , Chant 's words ) as Estabrook , to whom Chant had offered his contrition and his prayers ? |
| 13 | Ingres Corp will support 4Gb binary large objects ( BLOBS ) as an extension to the kernel of Version 6.5 of its relational database management system , due to go into beta test next year : the move seems aimed at forestalling customers thinking of moving to object databases , or to other RDBMS that already support BLOBs , such as Informix , Interbase and Oracle Version 7 — BLOBS however , are seen as little more than a token gesture towards true object databases . |
| 14 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
| 15 | Only very slowly did intellectuals concede that the movies had been shaped as much by politics as by the showmen . |
| 16 | Young children are shaped as much in the home as they are outside it . |
| 17 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |
| 18 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 19 | Oh yeah , I 've been told as much . |
| 20 | In the next section I aim to show that the tactics of finding commonality are used as much to assert status as are the tactics of control . |
| 21 | The Koi food contains 2.20 per cent Lysine , an amino acid vital to the digestive process in cyprinids but rarely found in ‘ general purpose ’ pellets that are used as much by trout-farmers as by Koi-keepers . |
| 22 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Seldom has a bone been hyped as much as this one . ’ |
| 25 | It is interesting that Patrick 's activity seems to have been dictated as much by personal disillusion or disappointment as by religious fervour . |
| 26 | In no other aspect of public affairs has the authority of the Executive been abused as much as in Civil , Religious and Democratic Liberties . |
| 27 | When William the Conqueror came to ‘ reform ’ the local church , that transformation may have been based as much on political as doctrinal and ritual considerations . |
| 28 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
| 29 | Indeed , iconoclasm has frequently been portrayed as little more than mindless vandalism perpetrated by Philistine bigots . |
| 30 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |