Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his ruthlessness made him as much a figure of fun as a minister of fear , and whatever his future holds , Souness will always be pursued by a sense of resentment in Scotland . |
| 2 | But music types in Manhattan and Hollywood say that they can see a country act as plain as a barn door . |
| 3 | The Spraire Lads football team , good lads too , got £300 but the Darlington and District Council did n't get to much as a packet of bird seed , on the grounds that they had enough already . |
| 4 | Thirdly , the idea of the European countryside , valuable to many as a source of beauty , history , and national pride would also be transformed . |
| 5 | It was known at first as a subway , a name thought of as an American term for an underground system , but later on was named the City and South London Railway and became the first tube railway in the world . |
| 6 | The company 's interest in content is likely to emerge slowly , rationalised at first as a willingness to make suggestions in the event a product of its new venture , Digital Domain , contains salacious material . |
| 7 | Michael Wittet will be remembered by many as a man of wide knowledge and active mind , of thoughtful care and concern , whether to friends and neighbours , colleagues and staff , or to fellow ex-prisoners of war . |
| 8 | One recruit of the period is worth special mention as he was regarded by many as a genius . |
| 9 | What had been pigeonholed by many as a niche market , for niche products , seemed to have come of age when Alain Pierrot of Hachette disclosed to the conference the total sales of the Grolier Encyclopaedia on a silvery disk . |
| 10 | Though viewed by many as a relic of the 1890s , she never lost her enthusiasm for new artistic trends . |
| 11 | The Wedding Present are seen by many as a victory for the ordinary and in a perverse way , their lack of image has become their image . |