Example sentences of "as [indef pn] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of the nineteenth century this belief began to impress itself upon a few mature minds that were open to a concept of childhood quite different from that of an earlier age , when children tended to be regarded as nothing better than undeveloped adults . |
| 2 | Some constructors may , on affable evenings and in the afterglow of victory , admit that drivers are human beings ; most of them consider them as nothing better than servants . |
| 3 | Now this emphasis on focusing and honing everything right down to its simplest form can sound a bit like naked capitalism , treating rock ‘ n ’ roll as nothing more than a game . |
| 4 | They may have felt a degree of excitement as they turned their cameras on a train arriving at a station , waves crashing on the beach , or a group of workers emerging from their daily grind in the factory , but these early pieces of reportage were seen as nothing more than ‘ animated photographs ’ , a further step in the development of photography . |
| 5 | It was natural to see these moving pictures as nothing more than a novelty , perhaps merely a passing gimmick ; they were , after all , only shown as an additional turn on the music-hall programme . |
| 6 | The explosives , which were described as nothing more than an experiment , were detonated just above a dam built in January and breached last week . |
| 7 | It has been a tactic of both supporters and opponents of economic and monetary union to play down the significance of these proposals , the first saying that monetary union will not significantly compromise sovereignty , the others sometimes dismissing talk of European union as nothing more than Euro-waffle . |
| 8 | Charlotte : Charlotte is a wealthy woman in her early forties who views aromatherapy as nothing more than an upmarket beauty treatment . |
| 9 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 10 | But it would be foolish to dismiss it as nothing more than a gimmick . |
| 11 | They had a son called Michael and a daughter called Matilda , and the parents looked upon Matilda in particular as nothing more than a scab . |
| 12 | The professorship in question was seen by the politicians as nothing more than a means of keeping the Laird of Cringletie happy ; it was , as Gorthie put it , ‘ a very good way to answer the Laird 's own expectations till once a good occasion offer ’ . |
| 13 | In an anonymous introduction , the editor of De revolutionibus , Andreas Osiander , had implied that the earth 's motion was to be construed as nothing more than a convenient hypothesis . |
| 14 | This part of the ceremony was regarded as nothing more than formal ritual . |
| 15 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 16 | It would be easy to dismiss her as nothing more than a minor accessory to ben Issachar 's crime against me : these women stay in the background , mind their own business over the cookpots and the infant 's cot , keep themselves out of public view . |
| 17 | In fact , this emphasis has misled many students of price theory to understand the notion of the entrepreneur as nothing more than the locus of profit-maximizing decision-making within the firm . |
| 18 | It was left to Karl Marx to strip away the veil of capitalist ideology and reveal the wage system and the ‘ free labour market ’ as nothing more than the domination of one class over another . |
| 19 | It is amazing , with hindsight , to see the awakening of the theory of evolution dismissed by Gould as nothing more than a number of ‘ pleasing chats ’ ; but Gould was not a revolutionary and never claimed to be ; his en tire life and all of his works were designed to get him accepted by society and by science , not rejected by them . |
| 20 | In addition , there are also examples of a more eclectic but " static " figural sequence , whose composite arrangements are extremely rich in figures but whose figures are linked only conceptually or are envisaged as nothing more than numerous , individual representations . |
| 21 | They are now hailed as nothing less than the first Europeans . |
| 22 | She criticizes the then Foreign Secretary Frances now Lord Pym for the part he played , he would have agreed to a negotiated settlement , she would have regarded that as nothing less than surrender . |
| 23 | Eunice 's false understanding of the situation adds light humour to the first scenes although we realise that Blanche is trying to already make herself out as someone better than everyone else in the play . |
| 24 | Work that wire all the way , look upon it as none other than a super-length needle with the eye in the bend of the wire . |
| 25 | For years , China has used a combination of strong arm diplomacy and shrill rhetoric to try to deny the Dalai Lama international recognition as a legitimate representative of Tibet 's aspirations as something other than a part of China . |
| 26 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 27 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 28 | The introduction of a geographical dimension at this level could be taken up even by those who saw evolution as something more than the selection of random variation . |
| 29 | In the second year of recovery the recurrent cravings have mostly subsided and people in recovery develop progressively more insight into the nature of addictive disease in general and their own addictive disease in particular and also into the true , broader , meaning of recovery as something more than mere avoidance of previous addictive substances or behaviour . |
| 30 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |