Example sentences of "this [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |