Example sentences of "but [vb -s] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Color Purple ’ is written in the form of letters to God but transcribes as a diary which is a style close to the way Celie speaks , although her later writing matures , it does not lose its frank appeal ! |
| 2 | Hanson , Britain 's largest break-up specialist retains certain parts of the conglomerates which it has taken over , but has as a result itself became a conglomerate — as discussed in the previous subsection . |
| 3 | Often the houseparent is a married woman whose husband goes out to work but acts as a father to the children in the evenings and at weekends . |
| 4 | Newfoundland is not only the the island on the south coast of but includes as a continent . |
| 5 | It is the deepest wish of the author , a member of the Wildlife Association of Southern India , that this embargo will become a permanent situation and that a national consciousness will not permit the continued destruction of the Cobra , which performs not only a biologically and environmentally essential function but exists as a symbol of life itself . |
| 6 | Robert Romanyshyn 's central thesis is that psychological life is not part of the material world or of an inner subjectivity separate from that world but exists as a form of mediation between the two . |
| 7 | He says , ‘ … the child weeps in play as a patient , but revels as a player ’ ( p. 549 ) . |