Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's always nice to get on the scoresheet , but I really do see myself more as a goal-maker than a goalscorer . |
| 2 | Even so , a sense of vocation is noticeable among most field officers , even many of the older ones : pollution control is still conceived of and practised more as a calling than a job . |
| 3 | I am going to offer , more as a case-study than a prescription , my own thoughts about what education ought to be , and what kind of ‘ schooling ’ would be an appropriate channel for its delivery . |
| 4 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 5 | I say this because I am anxious that having decided to reject the modernist notion that there is no Devil — and therefore no Christian dualism — we should not be tempted to fall into the opposite error of conceiving our adversary as no more than a fiend . |
| 6 | Leading politicians in Britain , particularly in the mid-nineteenth century Liberal Party , scorned the imperial enterprise as no more than a way of offering the unemployable aristocracy a means to enrich itself at heavy cost to the innocent . |
| 7 | The established head taking up a keen interest in marketing may well be seen as no more than a leopard cynically changing spots to match the climate of LMS and the introduction of pupil driven funding . |
| 8 | If a senior officer were to be viewed as no more than a member of an amorphous managerial team , said Mr Roach , the public would be led to believe that any complaint against a policemen was merely being investigated by ‘ one of the boys . |
| 9 | But the villagers regarded the new name as no more than a foreigner 's eccentric fancy which they were under no obligation either to use or recognise . |
| 10 | One view sees retirement as no more than a form of compulsory unemployment within an economy which can no longer offer full employment . |
| 11 | The claim that unschooled Wolof children have not developed the ‘ logical functions ’ of language will appear then as no more than a statement that the conventions in which their thinking is expressed are different from those of the researcher herself . |
| 12 | The cult had remained after those who had brought it had embraced the gods of the Black Land , the true gods , the gods of the land in which they now lived , but it remained as no more than a fashion among the rich . |
| 13 | If the OED were left as no more than a monument to the English of the twentieth century it would not remain the twenty-first century 's dictionary for long . |
| 14 | From seeming to be a parable or a satire , it ends up as no more than a glimpse of the stunted mentality of a twosome . |