Example sentences of "as [adj] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However that might have been , it was clear that the elderly female residents regarded her as little better than a whore . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Sometimes the way we act shows up our beliefs as little better than the hazy notions of an unbeliever . |
| 5 | One of the ‘ Blue Chips ’ , regarded in her early days as little better than an Edward Heath Youth Movement , the new Secretary of State for the Environment is now her green-eyed boy . |
| 6 | Businesses in the sample reported a typical three-stage learning process : ‘ The first phase of learning involves the basic ‘ driving ’ skills : the use of CAD as little other than an electronic pencil . ’ |
| 7 | While holding no important posts within the party and often dismissed as little more than a colourless clerk of little talent by Mao 's colleagues , he distinguished himself as a devoted and tireless servant both of Mao and his new wife Jiang Qing — qualities that would later prove far more important than any formal title . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The identification of lust with ‘ brown girls ’ probably had no racial connotations in that innocently discriminatory age ; but the scenes towards the end where the Witch tries to capture John with her wiles do leave the disconcerting impression that Lewis thought of Christianity as little more than a good ‘ cure ’ for lust . |
| 10 | Today the Chelt is regarded as little more than a nuisance , its former importance long forgotten . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Violence at home , terrible as it was , could be seen as little more than a reflection of what was then happening on foreign shores . |
| 13 | It is purely a prohibition on use — not on possession — and in view of the reservations made by states parties it can be viewed as little more than a ‘ no first use ’ pact . |
| 14 | In its time , Gosstandard was regarded by most western vendors as little more than a pseudo tax on western suppliers . |
| 15 | And the absence of systematic programmes to teach basic literacy added to the impression that the prison was regarded in reality as little more than a ‘ warehouse ’ for inmates , not a vehicle for their improvement . |
| 16 | At the other extreme , many short-term members in the 1930s saw the BUF as little more than a social organization in which political activity was very much a secondary phenomenon . |
| 17 | Ingres Corp will support 4Gb binary large objects ( BLOBS ) as an extension to the kernel of Version 6.5 of its relational database management system , due to go into beta test next year : the move seems aimed at forestalling customers thinking of moving to object databases , or to other RDBMS that already support BLOBs , such as Informix , Interbase and Oracle Version 7 — BLOBS however , are seen as little more than a token gesture towards true object databases . |
| 18 | Reaction was firmly enthroned , and when during the parliamentary debate on the Security from Violence Bill one MP voiced the belief that ‘ the want of employment was the parent of crime ’ , this seems to have been regarded as little more than a sentimental eccentricity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At its shortest the coat is seen by some designers as little more than a regular outsize jacket . |
| 21 | It is rather that until it is recognized as a convergence , and as a problem of convergence , the usual reaction , even when sympathetic ( and this , among an older and established generation , is comparatively rare ) is to see it as little more than a loose grouping of specialist studies either of communications , in their modern specialized form as ‘ the media ’ , or of the rather differently specialized field of ‘ the arts ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Far from treating the demonstration as a serious political event , the media portrayed the demonstration as little more than a ‘ performance ’ , speculating about the possible fashion wear of the participants . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He already looked upon her as little more than a juvenile delinquent ; now for sure she 'd get the full force of his anger . |
| 28 | Her voice came out as little more than a croak , sounding hollow , afraid . |
| 29 | He really did think of her as little more than a tramp . |
| 30 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |