Example sentences of "as [adv] a [noun sg] " 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 | When considering these ideas we saw , in Sir Edward Coke 's idea of the law as ‘ the golden metwand ’ and his articulation of the ‘ artificial reason ’ of the common law , as clear an expression of the ancient conception of the rule of law as one could expect to find . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Being reminded that she 's actually married always comes as rather a blow , ’ Luke commented , watching her go . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | For David Marquand 's main mistake is to see the policy review as merely an exercise in junking outmoded policies . |
| 21 | It would be possible to dismiss the Plus Programme as merely an expression of a different style , without substance or commitment to institutional change . |
| 22 | The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate . |
| 23 | The court in Malone also held , however , that even if an action in confidence does apply to telephone conversations , in this case the circumstances would be governed by Gartside v. Outram , where it was held that ‘ there is no confidence in the disclosure of an iniquity ’ , observations subsequently explained by Lord Denning as merely an instance of just cause or excuse for breaking a confidence . |
| 24 | What is missed by those who follow Nettl 's view , is that a number of Marxists would probably agree , in the sense that the idea of the state as merely an agent distorts the observed contradictions within the bourgeoisie , and assumes a purely passive role for the state in capitalism . |
| 25 | However , on the whole , English teachers at this time were content to defend their discipline on the grounds of its singular capacity to provide those " human " values upon which the idea of a liberal education depended , and to present science and technology as merely an aspect of that mechanical world against which the " battle of culture " needed to be pitched . |
| 26 | It would be a massive oversimplification to see The Wedding Present 's excursion into Ukrainian music as merely an attempt by Peter Solowka to please his parents . |
| 27 | By this means of marketing , Stoddard regard all the European and Scandinavian markets as merely an extension of the home market as far as pricing , selling and marketing are concerned . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The LNA saw the new measures as only a beginning . |