Example sentences of "as [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many feminists , by contrast , see the home as predominantly a back region for a man returning home from work : one where he can be himself , and largely at the expense of women 's autonomy and escape . |
| 2 | This last point is politically most important for Engels since he uses it to show how the development of the State implies the destruction of the egalitarian and communally-based gens : a proof of the Marxist view of the State as fundamentally a class institution , a view first developed in The German Ideology . |
| 3 | Since it sees politics as properly a man 's business , the malestream approach sets up male behaviour as the standard by which all other responses should be measured . |
| 4 | This , the first word Mungo had ever heard him utter , other than the mysterious ‘ lymenner ’ , came as rather a shock , as though a pillar-box had suddenly spoken . |
| 5 | ‘ Being reminded that she 's actually married always comes as rather a blow , ’ Luke commented , watching her go . |
| 6 | But fortunately most people who are asked to help in surveys are prepared to accept that they are appropriate people to answer questions on the survey for which they are approached , and particularly where people feel that they are being asked to give ‘ expert ’ information this can be seen as rather a compliment : ‘ If you want to know about how a housewife organizes her day I can tell you everything you need to know . ’ |
| 7 | The shadow employment secretary , Frank Dobson , also attacked the jobs package in the Budget , in the resumed Commons debate on the measures , as merely a propaganda exercise to help a Chancellor in trouble . |
| 8 | During the few moments in which she paused in her ascent to the church she reflected that now she was looking at the view the other way round ; now she was in one of the overcrowded little alleys visible from San Martino as merely a crack in a vast expanse of roof tiles and crumbling masonry and noticeable from that lofty vantage point because of the fluttering of the washing hung out on poles over the street to dry . |
| 9 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
| 10 | No names appear on BSDI 's papers of incorporation except the company 's nominal president Rick Adams who was described to Unigram last week by Donnalyn Frey , BSDI 's spokesman , as merely a figurehead , soon to be replaced when BSDI completes its current search for a chief executive . |
| 11 | This award will , I trust , help dispel the old perception of Rentokil as merely a woodworm and pest control company , and to help to give it the recognition it deserves — for what it is today — a major multi-national company with a broad base of services of wide-ranging benefits ’ . |
| 12 | The NCMD should not be regarded as merely a means to obtain sites and impress councils or other bodies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , to interpret play as merely a stage towards , for example , the more satisfactory situation of pure verbal expression while lying on a couch , would be unfortunate . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 17 | Officially , a spokesman for Trainload Freight sector said BR was in negotiation with PowerGen about a new contract , but it is understood that BR sees the contract cancellation as merely a negotiation ploy and feels a new deal could be struck . |
| 18 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 19 | But however striking , the hair had to be viewed as merely a trailer to the main feature of Gyggle 's appearance , the beard . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | And then , when I put the phone down again , it resumes its full natural flow , inside my head instead of outside , as perfectly articulate and well-modulated as only a voice inside one 's head has a chance to be . |
| 22 | The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning . |
| 23 | Clarence sprawled on the counter as only a cat can , performing an intimate and meticulous toilet . |
| 24 | It may suit some English commentators to think of the IRA as only a terrorist force rather than the Irish Republican Army because the acronym represents the IRA as shadowy forces of savagery and evil , which by definition it is difficult for the civilised good to understand . |
| 25 | And I always look on a writer as only a beginner . |
| 26 | She was still at the RSM then , violin first study , and she fell in love as only a violinist can . |
| 27 | That was never true — and has been recognised , even by socialists , as only a fraction of the explanation . |
| 28 | He was , I think , even more solipsistic than I was : self-centred as only a man constrained within his own view of what constituted his masculinity could be . |
| 29 | He understood the weather , did Gabriel , as only a sailor could , and from the angle and force and temperature of the wind and the shape of the clouds would predict the nature and time of the storm . |
| 30 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |