Example sentences of "[coord] as a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are probably wrong , however , to see this as happening on a large scale or as a particularly significant development in many areas . |
| 2 | Hathor is depicted either as a beautiful young woman or as a rather sad cow . |
| 3 | Since the role of subjective risk is of particular importance in theories of driving , one part of this question is simply whether drivers are aware of subjective risk , either as a feeling which is occasionally present in immediately dangerous situations but otherwise non-existent ( consistent with a zero-risk theory of driving ) or as a continually fluctuating level which they can be aware of when questioned and which they attempt to match to some target level ( consistent with RHT ) . |
| 4 | The minimal lesion may appear histologically normal , or as a virtually normal biopsy with a high count of villus intraepithelial lymphocytes ; the fully expressed lesion is a flat mucosa with crypt hyperplasia , typical of coeliac disease . |
| 5 | This takes two major forms : either as a monster or as a pathetically funny being . |
| 6 | Hence there is a painful dilemma for the policy-maker between treating a problem as a black box which will not go away but whose size does not seem intimidating and is amenable to exorcism by benign rhetoric and minor policy adjustments ; or as a more diffuse , analytically complex and sophisticated explanation of why most of the problems exist . |
| 7 | If the choices are between understanding policy making as a pure exercise in rational decision making , as the putting into practice of ideologies , or as a quite incoherent process of bargaining and muddling through , it is sensible to reject each alternative . |
| 8 | It could go as a joint European-American force , or as a purely European one . |
| 9 | He stroked the Trinity boat to head of the river , and as a notably good-looking but somewhat challenging undergraduate enjoyed to the full the leisured life of his college . |
| 10 | Even when used , with effort to avoid evaluative overtones and as a purely descriptive device , psychiatric classification leaves much to be desired ; for example in its inability to distinguish clearly between different varieties of psychosis or draw sharp boundaries between the manifestly and the marginally insane , points we shall have cause to enlarge upon later . |
| 11 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 12 | The development of a study of consumption may then be integrated , not as dichotomous to relations of production , nor as a universal social function , but as a continually growing element of modern culture , which must therefore play an increasingly prominent role in attempts to understand the nature of contemporary societies . |
| 13 | It is that strength , both individually and collectively , that will ensure that if the monarchy survives into the twenty-first century , it will not just be as ‘ a privileged irrelevance ’ , but as a very potent force for good . |
| 14 | One crop that seems to have flourished in the late eighteenth-century Weald was hops ; the rapid expansion of the Georgian population produced an urgent demand for more beer , not only to escape the worst features of contemporary living but as a very basic foodstuff for the poor . |
| 15 | The ‘ white ’ of the sky and clouds appears to me not as pure white , but as a very pale tone , so I start with a wash of cadmium orange fading out from the horizon upwards . |