Example sentences of "as [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It derives , rather , from a picture of the self as fundamentally a unitary , conscious and rational thing , a picture which , in Western philosophy , can be traced back to Descartes . |
| 2 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 3 | It was likely that both the leading magnates and the commons in parliament would see a war on behalf of the disinherited as merely a factional struggle in which neither the honour nor the safety of the community was at stake , and which therefore did not merit support . |
| 4 | It should not be discounted as merely a cynical manipulation on his part in order to restore flagging revolutionary morale by invoking the imperialist threat , even though it has in practice served that purpose . |
| 5 | In common with the men of Qumran , with whom he seems to have had some links , John saw washing with water as merely a preparatory rite , while the great cleansing and the gift of the Spirit lay in the future ( I QS : 9–1 of and 4:21 ) . |
| 6 | In any case , as far as everyday quantum mechanics is concerned , we may regard our use of imaginary time and Euclidean space-time as merely a mathematical device ( or trick ) to calculate answers about real space-time . |
| 7 | Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case : the case where the economy is in deep recession . |
| 8 | We must give up regarding " good English " as merely a social or literary accomplishment , and … endeavour by research and by exposition to equip the masses with the ability to exercise a reasoned choice in the employment of language ; in other words … we must regard the training of the linguistic consciousness as an essential part of primary and secondary as well as University education . |
| 9 | In doing so I wanted not to reduce , say , Gide 's or Fanon 's defence of difference to the limiting historical conditions of its articulation — the first as merely a sexual tourist , the second as developing a homophobic theory of Negrophobia . |
| 10 | Traditionalists , however , do not regard society as merely a gigantic market place and favour an authoritarian stand on many social issues , for example , on drugs , abortion , Sunday trading , and censorship . |
| 11 | The status of the foreign minister as merely a high-ranking bureaucrat meant that the diplomats whom he directed , and in particular the heads of the more important Russian missions abroad , often looked on him as more or less an equal and hardly as a superior at all . |
| 12 | As Horton Davies , who has explored this subject deeply , wrote : ‘ More worshipful churches proved incentives to , if not a deeper , yet a better ordered and more dignified worship among congregations that had previously regarded worship as merely a preliminary to preaching . ’ |
| 13 | They see our future as merely an offshore island for foreign investment which guarantees some tenuous future in the European Community . |
| 14 | Thirdly , because they regard the elections as basically a viable process . |
| 15 | I believe there are several thousand States in Ireland now and I see the sense of locality that has always dominated here as basically a time-serving National identity . |
| 16 | Course , Derek Weintraub just sat there , totally gormless and I-know-it-all at the same time as only a fifth-year O-level repeat can be . |
| 17 | Admittedly war with the USSR was seen as only a distant possibility . |
| 18 | In most histories the massacre is said to mark the end of Mughal Delhi 's greatness , yet Khan clearly sees the invasion as only a temporary setback for the city . |
| 19 | The following study of Owen may perhaps be regarded as only a partial success . |
| 20 | It was as simple as only a barefaced lie could be . |
| 21 | Artists can be at a disadvantage in group exhibitions as only a small part of their activity can be seen . |
| 22 | But as only a small percentage of the US tuna fleet captures dolphins , Boxer argues that her Bill will actually give US tuna processors a competitive advantage in the US market , because foreign fleets are more likely to use methods harmful to dolphins . |
| 23 | As only a small part sticks they blow off easily , and if they are trimmed they bruise . |
| 24 | I was impressed — ‘ Cytology ’ , ‘ Albumin Globulin and Total Biliruben ’ ( sounded like a Kosher delicatessen ) — MCV/MCH/HCT — I was hooked as only a true hypochondriac can be . |
| 25 | For perchlorate , it appears that at least in aqueous solution a symmetrically-hydrated ion is formed , as only a single ν 3 bands is seen ; for other oxyanions , however , distortions attributed to hydrogen-bond formation have been claimed on the basis of splittings of ν 3 bands . |
| 26 | Another strange bird had descended in great flocks on the Mokai , much to Gould 's delight as only a single specimen had ever been delivered to England prior to 1839 , which was in the collection of the Linnean Society . |
| 27 | Mr Al-Haroun , when confronted , was as gently apologetic as only a well-bred Arab can be when confronted by an angry occidental . |
| 28 | In the procedure of associated spaces , however , link B is seen computationally as only a special entity in the reference space , containing all the entities describing link A. Rotation of A by 450 is achieved by rotating the entire sub-model space . |
| 29 | Palmerston was clearly satisfied with Scott 's plan and layout and regarded the provision of classical elevations as only a minor revision . |
| 30 | Anything I have accomplished in that time ranks as only a minor contribution compared with the achievements of the Fast Reactor research and development team , ’ she said . |