Example sentences of "as [noun] [subord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only see myself as a conversation piece , worth more as gossip than a fuck . |
| 2 | But , within a family , it is much less common for a woman to be listed as ratepayer than a man . |
| 3 | The first level — the gift relationship — is characterised by an inequality in the relationship such as sponsorship where a firm offers an institution something with no direct or equivalent return . |
| 4 | ( a ) Dealing as consumer Whether a person acts in the course of a business is a key element in establishing whether a person " deals as consumer " . |
| 5 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |