Example sentences of "[subord] a [noun sg] [conj] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Quality improvement , as a concept and as a reality , has been around in its present form for a number of decades .
2 He accepted , as a necessity and as a form of self-punishment , Ricky 's need for women , but when Ricky returned from a weekend away he would ask rather bitterly , ‘ Was she worth it ? ’
3 Kate had known the security of love , as a child and as an adult .
4 But at the level we have now reached , the male is the active principle , embodying creative , spiritual light , and can be its representative , as a saviour or as a priest .
5 Advertisement means any word , letter , model , sign , placard , board , notice , device or representation , whether illuminated or not , in the nature of , and employed wholly or partly for the purposes of , advertisement , announcement or direction ( excluding any such thing employed wholly as a memorial or as a railway signal ) , and … includes any hoarding or similar structure or any balloon used , or adapted for use , for the display of advertisements …
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