Example sentences of "as [indef pn] [adj] [subord] [art] [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 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 8 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 9 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The creation of a database in the school library can therefore be seen as something more than the provision of a catalogue of resources . |
| 13 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She told me , ‘ Blind people do n't need that register , ’ and that no one would ever employ me as anything other than an audio-typist . |
| 18 | It is difficult to see that as anything other than an attempt to intimidate the BBC . |
| 19 | Remember , I 've never thought of myself as anything other than an amateur . |
| 20 | 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 . |