Example sentences of "as [adj] [conj] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference with New Historicism is in a refusal to see the incident or localised concern as symbolic or as a metaphor for larger cultural significances . |
| 2 | Theorizing and debate about law-breaking and law enforcement have been premised on a model of the criminal actor as individual and on a conception of enforcement as practised by a uniformed and public police . |
| 3 | In other words , many mentally ill people were defined as ill because of a breakdown in their social relationships ; drugs might relieve some of the symptomatic tension but help was needed to remedy the causes by encouraging patients to participate in a community that improved the capacity of all its members — patients and therapists — to relate in a meaningful way to one another . |
| 4 | In this way grammar would not be presented as primary but as a consequence of the achievement of meaning through the modification of lexical items . |
| 5 | The UN High Commissioner for Refugees , Sadako Ogata , stated that she was " deeply disturbed " by the decision , which was denounced by US human rights groups as racist and as a violation of national and international law . |
| 6 | The first two are represented in Attaingnant 's collections — Clemens , it is true , by an anonymous and doubtfully authentic piece — as early as 1529 and by a trickle of songs during the next decade . |
| 7 | Subject to paragraph 2 , it is applicable not only to ‘ information ’ or ‘ ideas ’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference , but also to those that offend , shock or disturb . |