Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Furthermore , successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning .
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