Example sentences of "as [det] [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 2 | However that might have been , it was clear that the elderly female residents regarded her as little better than a whore . |
| 3 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 4 | Levitt smiled polite agreement , no more ; he was privately jealous of Lovitch whom he looked upon as little more than a huckster — though it was a well-stocked music shop that Lovitch owned . |
| 5 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 6 | Indeed , ingenious CD-ROM publishers nowadays often regard it as little more than a development constraint to be accepted , designed out and disregarded . |
| 7 | For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age . |
| 8 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 9 | Today the Chelt is regarded as little more than a nuisance , its former importance long forgotten . |
| 10 | This one was bodged together from old planks and doors from wrecked houses , intended as little more than a defence in court for the demolition company when some child got through and broke his neck amongst the rubble . |
| 11 | Eleven months later , the indictment of two Libyans for the mass murder of 270 people at Lockerbie struck most Americans as little more than a formality , giving practical effect to what they — ; and most of the media — already thought they knew . |
| 12 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |
| 13 | Her voice came out as little more than a croak , sounding hollow , afraid . |
| 14 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 15 | He really did think of her as little more than a tramp . |
| 16 | Hitherto she had experienced the unruly masculine spirit inside her soul as little more than a matter for jocular asides or occasional remorse to see it bound like Pedro into mischief ; but notice had now been served . |
| 17 | In that light , and with reggae still regarded as little more than a novelty by the mainstream music business , Shabba 's ambition can only be applauded . |
| 18 | The central character , the archetypal Englishman Jack Good , comes across as little more than a pantomime figure . |
| 19 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 20 | But despite the self-importance of the boast , the League no longer existed as much more than a figment of its leaders ' fantasies . |