Example sentences of "[det] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I offer this merely as a piece of information .
2	Weber admits that a common market situation may provide a basis for collective class action but he sees this only as a possibility .
3	I state this only as a general and not as an invariable premise because of the possibility of cases in which the court would not authorise treatment of a distressing nature which offered only a small hope of preserving life .
4	As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past .
5	Ecologists studied the natural environment , but often saw this only as a means of helping the human race to manage its interference more effectively .
6	It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage .
7	But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them .
8	I have never been able to subscribe to the extreme schools of thought which see this either as a sin or as an act of brave defiance .
9	Haney and Ullmer ( 1970 ) note that the modern American generation will have viewed , on average , 15,000 hours of television , attended 500 motion pictures and spent approximately 11,000 hours in class by the end of their school careers , and put this forward as a reason for using television and film very much more in the classroom .
10	It adds up to a picture of a man in a wider context that just as a fighter pilot .
11	The male sex hormone testosterone er makes males bigger , er they 've bigger bones , more muscle and so on , this gives them their sporting prowess and this is why of course er you 've had all these better as a result .
12	Off on his own now as a mustanger .

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