Example sentences of "as [adv] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
| 2 | As we shall see in the Russian case , it was a common phenomenon , echoing Marx 's description of Lafargue 's internationalism as merely a mechanism for absorbing all in a model French nation . |
| 3 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
| 4 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 5 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 6 | Together with the 1993 budget , unveiled the following day [ see below ] , the proposals within the State of the Union speech were portrayed as both a package for economic growth and an economic election manifesto , although most commentators found little that was new within the package . |
| 7 | An early 20th century guru , a great English artist-craftsman , typographic designer , engraver , sculptor and deeply influential presence in the cultural life of his time , Eric Gill ( 1882–1940 ) was regarded , until Fiona MacCarthy 's revealing and controversial biography ( 1989 ) , as almost a candidate for sainthood . |
| 8 | Educational technology is therefore offered as almost a synonym for systematic thinking in education . |
| 9 | ‘ If each partner comes to regard marriage as primarily a quest for his or her self-fulfilment , rather than as an adventure in reciprocal self-giving , through.which parents and children grow into maturity , then the outlook is likely to be bleak ’ ( John Stott , Issues Facing Christians Today , Marshalls , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | The principle of deduction is incorporated by seeing empirical investigation as primarily a procedure for testing theories through hypotheses deduced from the theory itself . |