Example sentences of "as [art] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be written off as a malingerer or a neurotic or , perhaps even worse , as someone who must be gently humoured back to health . |
| 2 | ‘ As you know , Sally , he 's no great shakes as a shot-maker but a wonderful putter — he has a great feel . |
| 3 | I have already disputed Simmonds 's account of interpretation based on authorial intention ( see Chapter 2 ) , but his account of the sociology of knowledge both as a hermeneutic and a critical theory is most interesting . |
| 4 | The government and its supporters eventually accepted this but then insisted on a 75 per cent majority applying to regional issues , including the country 's future status as a unitary or a federal state . |
| 5 | The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Participatory democracy necessarily has implications for social life , and is better regarded as a way of life than as no more than a political device or method . |
| 7 | They treat Scotland as no more than a mere appendage of England , and seek to impose on Scotland an educational agenda that is irrelevant to the real needs of Scottish education . |
| 8 | I could n't make up my mind about him , regarding him at times as some grotesque theatrical maniac , at other times as no more than a pleasant , if somewhat mysterious , travelling companion . |
| 9 | If , by contrast , the company was viewed as no more than a contractual association between the members much like a partnership , it was difficult to explain why each shareholder should not be liable for the full extent of any debts , as was the case in a partnership . |
| 10 | The expression on her face read my last remark as no more than a condescending gesture of patient sympathy such as she must have met many times before . |
| 11 | Sartre ultimately chose to ignore the constructive Marxist elements in Nizan 's life and work which , from the vantage point of 1960 , were perceived as no more than a Stalinist mystification and selected instead as the model for a post-Stalinist epoch , the uncompromising rebellion of a young intellectual of the 1920s venting his spleen on the iniquities of bourgeois oppression at home and colonial oppression abroad . |
| 12 | Early travellers to Mozambique described the station at Beira as no more than a muddy , fever-infested street corner . |
| 13 | Moreover , since our involvement in social relationships and membership of social groups only ends when our social existence ends ( at death ) , socialisation must be seen as an inevitable and a lifelong process . |