Example sentences of "as [indef pn] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 2 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 3 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 4 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 5 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 6 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 7 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 8 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 9 | Seen in his context , which was inter-war Cambridge , Leavis was never much of an innovator , and it is hard to see his critical notoriety , which reached its apogee in the 1950s and early 1960s , as anything other than a triumph of style . |
| 10 | I can not imagine that , as Sir Russell was granted that post , he is regarded as anything other than a man with eminently good sense . |
| 11 | The normal ( electronic ) shutter speed of a camcorder is unc of a second ; this is too slow to record rapid movement as anything other than a blur . |
| 12 | Recently published Dataquest figures indicate a potential market size of $300 million by 1990 but with less that a year of history to go on this can hardly be taken as anything more than a guideline . |