Example sentences of "but as [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was clearly proposed not as a permanent arrangement , but as a temporary measure of co-operation between different individuals , who , it was hoped , would be supported by their parties . |
| 32 | A Conservative government had emerged that the Liberty and Property Defence League could well have called its own , but as a consequence it was a government that had very little to do with Conservatism . |
| 33 | But as a whole it has yet to be cracked . |
| 34 | As a thrilling spectacle it has little to offer , but as a powerful totem it is almost unique in its place in European and western culture . |
| 35 | That means a modified 2-litre Renault 21 Turbo engine , double wishbone suspension and a chassis le Quement said was designed not as a chassis ‘ but as a handling ’ ( sic ) . |
| 36 | His big bang comes at the NEC show in 1992 with the 530bhp twin-supercharged Vantage — but as a Bentley fan he was beaming nonetheless . |
| 37 | But as a sufferer of a very severe form of diabetes , 34-year-old Philippa has had to struggle not to let her illness take over her life . |
| 38 | ‘ Forgive me , but as a guest of your Government I … well , I 'm sure that you understand . ’ |
| 39 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 40 | It is that strength , both individually and collectively , that will ensure that if the monarchy survives into the twenty-first century , it will not just be as ‘ a privileged irrelevance ’ , but as a very potent force for good . |
| 41 | But as a precaution it has suspended all its funds , until an investigation pinpoints the root of the problem . |
| 42 | GPT was formed to unite the telecoms businesses of GEC and Plessey , but as a result of the Plessey takeover it is now owned 60 per cent by GEC and 40 per cent by the German group , Siemens . |
| 43 | In a speech almost calculated to reassure Mrs Thatcher as she flies to Washington today , Mr Bush appealed to President Gorbachev : ‘ America welcomes reform not as an adversary seeking advantage , but as a people offering support . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ Industry should n't be seen as the problem but as a major part of the solution to environmental improvement , ’ he said . |
| 45 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |
| 46 | Its difficult to go beyond normal scepticism and see this huge number not just as a potential but as a reality . ’ |
| 47 | But Bill Alexander 's powerful new production of The Duchess of Malfi at The Swan treats him not as a lurid Jacobean sensationalist but as a sombre , death-haunted melancholic . |
| 48 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 49 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 50 | Bruce Alexander thus plays the lycanthropic Ferdinand not as some howling lunatic but as a haunted , guilt-ridden creature . |
| 51 | But as a Which ? report this week revealed , those with satellite TV still mostly watch BBC and ITV . |
| 52 | He had a hard race at Newbury , following one the previous week behind Man O Magic at Ascot , but as a six-year-old he looks too young for something as gruelling as the Welsh National — the last six-year-old to win was Miss Gaynus in 1932 . |
| 53 | Morrissey is needed , not as an ombudsman , or a figure of the eighties , but as a horrified figure against the eighties , who has turned his back on the march of pop time as the last keeper of the sanctuary of self-pity , apartness , exile ’ ( David Stubbs ) . |
| 54 | ‘ OWING To its natural beauty , protected situation and other attractive features , Windermere is popular not only as a holiday resort , but as a permanent summer and winter residence . |
| 55 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 56 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 57 | At first glance , it seems hardly necessary to make another film about Van Gogh ; but Maurice Pialat , who began his career in the late 1960s , has found a new approach by showing the artist not as a great figure of his times but as a tormented , talented painter living in a village among ordinary folk . |
| 58 | Medical supplies are scarce , but as a prelude to this week 's talks PNG allowed some to come in from Australia . |
| 59 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 60 | Because only in this way we regard ourselves not merely as a variant of a human prototype but as a being with its own irreplaceable essence . |