Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] as [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would seem to imply little reliability as either a mirror or informer of public opinion . |
| 2 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 3 | Antiracists , on the other hand , will have to move beyond their reductive conceptions of culture and their fear of cultural difference as simply a source of division and weakness in the struggle against racism . |
| 4 | 5. such work will also help pupils approach the diversity of religious beliefs in an open and non-dogmatic way without succumbing to the relativism which tends to regard different beliefs as just a matter of opinion . |
| 5 | There is evidence of a Roman settlement as quite a number of coins have been ploughed up relating to this period in history . |
| 6 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 7 | Furthermore , successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control . |
| 8 | The Market on Saturday evenings provided much entertainment as always a number of cheapjacks were to be found selling all sorts of items . |
| 9 | The Labour councils sought to use low fares as both a part of their overall planning policies and a means of redistributing income in favour of lower income groups . |
| 10 | Opponents of sales see them as reducing a vital social resource built up at the ratepayers ' expense , while proponents see sales to long-standing tenants as almost a recourse to ‘ natural justice ’ , although there are also the political overtones of the desire of Conservative politicians to build up a property-owning base to their vote . |
| 11 | This suggested poverty as both a cause and a rational reason for crime . |
| 12 | The principle of deduction is incorporated by seeing empirical investigation as primarily a procedure for testing theories through hypotheses deduced from the theory itself . |
| 13 | But over the eight drafts , what emerged was a particular vision of the whole penal system as almost a plot by the higher powers to perpetuate the whole system of crime , keep it rolling , keep criminals on the streets … ‘ |
| 14 | Even those who saw the extension of Moscow 's control over her eastern European neighbours as primarily a response to American expansion objected to the oppressive form of Soviet rule . |
| 15 | Yet another reason for regarding romantic suspense as primarily a woman 's art ( though I enjoy reading them , and so do many other old male chauvinists ) is that the archetypal situation they describe echoes the situation of women through the ages . |
| 16 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 17 | It is , however , a mistake to pigeon-hole Corinth as just a city of traders , craftsmen and luxury . |
| 18 | Arnold Denney , of Trumpet Terrace , Cleator , who has worked on the production line for 42 years as either a machine knotter or twister and for a number of years has been a foreman . |
| 19 | There are very pressured days , says Jackie , when she has several visits as well a clinic , when she goes up every front path praying both mum and babe will be problem-free . |
| 20 | Like egalitarian feminist psychology , woman-centred psychology sees the gendered subject as both a product of social relations , and a fixed , essential entity . |
| 21 | Though there are many disadvantages as well as advantages in the use of microcomputers for information retrieval , the major advantage is that computerized information retrieval can provide a strong link between the school library and the curriculum by increasing pupils ' exposure to new technologies as both a learning and retrieval tool , regardless of subject area , and increase the use of resources in the school . |
| 22 | But at least since 1984 the major flashpoints of conflict between Britain and her European partners had disappeared , while Mrs Thatcher found , with the departure of Schmidt and Giscard d'Estaing , a greater eminence as both a European and a world statesman . |
| 23 | The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning . |
| 24 | If people understood formal legislation as only a matter of negotiated solutions to discrete problems , with no underlying commitment to any more fundamental public conception of justice , they would draw a sharp distinction between two kinds of encounters with fellow citizens : those that fall within and those that fall outside the scope of some past political decision . |