Example sentences of "as [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |
| 2 | It should not be discounted as merely a cynical manipulation on his part in order to restore flagging revolutionary morale by invoking the imperialist threat , even though it has in practice served that purpose . |
| 3 | In most histories the massacre is said to mark the end of Mughal Delhi 's greatness , yet Khan clearly sees the invasion as only a temporary setback for the city . |
| 4 | Artists can be at a disadvantage in group exhibitions as only a small part of their activity can be seen . |
| 5 | But as only a small percentage of the US tuna fleet captures dolphins , Boxer argues that her Bill will actually give US tuna processors a competitive advantage in the US market , because foreign fleets are more likely to use methods harmful to dolphins . |
| 6 | In the procedure of associated spaces , however , link B is seen computationally as only a special entity in the reference space , containing all the entities describing link A. Rotation of A by 450 is achieved by rotating the entire sub-model space . |
| 7 | ( The litter on the floor is lust as much a faulty part of the design as the unopenability of the badly designed peanut pack . ) |
| 8 | They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client . |
| 9 | Louise Müller , or whatever her name was , was a treacherous schemer and murderess , as much a public danger in her way as Fedorov . |
| 10 | Frank Daugherty saw Cagney 's style as just a logical development from that of other gangster types and identified as the most effective of his ‘ tricks ’ the way in which he could suggest that he was ‘ thinking his own thoughts ’ and ‘ reserving his feelings ’ . |
| 11 | There were hakas and waving flags , and such high-falutin' gushing that , in comparison , the crusades might have appeared as just a quick trip around the block for a gratifying little scrap . |
| 12 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 13 | Today elegans and livingstonii are still considered valid , but lanisticola is now regarded as a synonym of livingstonii , and ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ as possibly a further synonym of the same species . |
| 14 | It would also leave Lewis as possibly a minor player in the world heavyweight scene which could be returning to the chaos that surrounded it before Mike Tyson brutally united sports richest prize . |
| 15 | Perhaps the most significant paper , also geomorphological , was that in which Brown ( 1970 ) characterized man as both a geomorphological process in relation to his direct , purposeful modifications of landforms , and also as indirectly effective through the human influence upon geomorphological processes . |
| 16 | In the community care reforms the purchaser/provider split is understood as both a macro-budgetary strategy in which both health and social service are divided into purchasing and providing organizations , so that the latter can be more open to competition in the health and welfare ‘ market ’ , and a micro-budgetary mechanism for decentralizing resources into the hands of front-line workers and managers in order to more effectively target these resources on those identified as most in need by the care management assessment . |
| 17 | Rural Wales ( excluding the urbanized south and north-east ) provides a contrast with the Scottish Highlands , as here a large number of parishes were without any public transport at all . |
| 18 | It provides a near-fatal argument against conventionalism as even a decent interpretation of our practice . |
| 19 | Poorly ventilated and stagnant spaces must be opened up to a constant current of air by the introduction of new ventilation openings as even a vigorous attack of dry rot can be arrested ( but not reduced ) by exposure to fresh air . |
| 20 | Early fishkeepers realised this fact many years ago , even before filters of any sort were developed , and their success relied entirely on maintaining low stock levels , allowing fresh water to run continuously through an aquatic system or conducting partial water changes , as well a mass cultivation of aquatic plants to biologically absorb and utilise nitrogenous wastes . |
| 21 | Once we have ruled out the secular notion that authority implies superiority , we can then get it back into perspective as simply a necessary tool in executing responsibility . |
| 22 | The theses that Latin American socio-economic structures could not be regarded as simply a local variant of European feudalism , and that the agrarian economy was already incorporated into the capitalist system were restated and developed , and the argument that the revolution in Latin America could only be socialist reasserted . |
| 23 | The psychoanalytic movement , partly under Freud 's own direction , did develop the characteristics of a sectarian organization rather than those of an open scientific community , but this does not invalidate the arguments for psychoanalysis as potentially a key component of the human sciences . |
| 24 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 25 | They thus found particularly congenial the work of those anthropologists such as Bachofen , and again Morgan , who saw primitive kinship as almost a total reversal of the family as they knew it . |
| 26 | No prognosis would be possible in a serious case for at least two or three months from the accident and the treating surgeon 's report can thus be used as quite a good foundation for the independent reports which will follow later . |
| 27 | I remember the psychiatrist as quite a young man with a quiet , gentle manner . |
| 28 | Unlike children , very old people do not have common ‘ norms of development ’ which can be used as quite a precise yardstick in the appraisals we all make of each other . |
| 29 | Let her take a favourite toy or comfort object with her , as sometimes a little piece of home can make her feel more secure among strangers . |
| 30 | Since some historians see the anti-standing army platform as essentially a Whig position before the Glorious Revolution , it is worth stressing the Tory dimension to the opposition in 1685 . |