Example sentences of "[vb pp] [not/n't] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 2 | Thus , it is argued that where conversion is probable , the debt should be reported not as a liability but as , or near , equity . |
| 3 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 4 | Plant ecology developed not as a study of the factors affecting the lives and deaths of individual plants and their parts but as a study of the distribution of vegetation types and of particular species . |
| 5 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 6 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 7 | There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal . |
| 8 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | Against this background it is not surprising that the duty to benefit the company should be framed not as a duty to take specific actions or to achieve determinate results , but is instead concerned only with ensuring that the directors act in accordance with proper objectives . |
| 10 | The martyr 's conflict was seen not as a fight against duly constituted authority in government , but against Satan . |
| 11 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 12 | The Glorious Revolution is best seen not as a victory for one party , but as a compromise . |
| 13 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 14 | From their views on the intentional and affective fallacies ( Brooks seems to have agreed entirely with Wimsatt and Beardsley about these ) it follows that this reconciliation of opposites must be seen not as an event in the mind of the author or reader , but as an objective fact about the text 's meaning or structure . |
| 15 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 16 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 17 | Another candidate is the Burgess Shale Echmatocrinus , currently interpreted not as a cnidarian at all , but as an echinoderm , the earliest crinoid : the supposed tube feet are very large and could instead be anthozoan-like tentacles . |
| 18 | That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out . |
| 19 | The New Testament ought to be understood not as a resource for abstract theological thinking , but as a divine drama : the story of the Great Battle . |
| 20 | The Irishman was working another establishment she called at , the Lights of Lisbon , only he was employed not as a waiter but as a pianist in the bar . |
| 21 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 22 | Gable hopes his Swan Lake will be viewed not as a version but a theatre event in its own right . |
| 23 | The social determination of knowledge is supported not as a basis for analysing knowledge or ideology but as a basis for disputing with the positivist tendency in social science in order that an idealist and historicist account of the process of history can be recovered . |
| 24 | An open school is one where parents are encouraged to visit and participate , where they are perceived not as a problem but more as a solution to problems . |
| 25 | This is conceived not as a set of hardware but as a comprehensive information system focused on the needs identified by the ESSC ( see above ) and anticipating somewhat those of IGBP . |
| 26 | Thus courage and temperance , are conceived not as a restriction on our freedom but as requirements for its full development . |
| 27 | This map and the sense of movement from one place to the next form the frame of the book , equivalent to Boccaccio 's paradisiacal garden to which his storytellers have fled from the plague-infested city , and it ensures that Narratori delle pianure is read not as a collection of stories , but as a succession . |
| 28 | ‘ Crumble Hall ’ must be read not as a repudiation of established social and economic relations , but as the statement of someone who finds those relations violated or betrayed . |
| 29 | The passage quoted above can then be read not as a denial of conflicts over the use of common land , but as a comment on them . |
| 30 | The need for a more balanced architecture , with readings being ordered not as a result of depth-first search but according to numerical scores to which all system components can contribute , will now be argued in more detail by looking at four types of co-ordination problem occurring in anaphora resolution . |