Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is evidence of a Roman settlement as quite a number of coins have been ploughed up relating to this period in history . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Market on Saturday evenings provided much entertainment as always a number of cheapjacks were to be found selling all sorts of items . |
| 6 | This suggested poverty as both a cause and a rational reason for crime . |
| 7 | The principle of deduction is incorporated by seeing empirical investigation as primarily a procedure for testing theories through hypotheses deduced from the theory itself . |
| 8 | 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 … ‘ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is , however , a mistake to pigeon-hole Corinth as just a city of traders , craftsmen and luxury . |
| 12 | Like egalitarian feminist psychology , woman-centred psychology sees the gendered subject as both a product of social relations , and a fixed , essential entity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |