Example sentences of "[noun sg] but as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 2 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 3 | Nigel Terry plays him most intelligently , not just as a mercenary hit-man but as a soft-spoken scholar obsessed by mortality . |
| 4 | The government has at last realised the importance of preserving the eco system as a way to attract a new kind of tourist ( with more culture and money to spend ) who will see Gran Canaria not just as cheap holidays in the sun but as a living island . |
| 5 | Suicide pact killings are retained ( cl. 62 ) , not as manslaughter but as a separate offence , punishable with a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 7 | What they want is business , not as an exclusive right but as a first option . |
| 8 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 9 | Since Chaucer 's day this has been referred to as CATERWAULING , but it is often recorded not as an aggressive sound but as a sexual one . |
| 10 | The sonnet stands not only as an account of some private instance but as a representative account of the pressures and inevitable containment of individuals by powerful forces outside their control . |
| 11 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 12 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 13 | It is not meant as a criticism but as a frank report of how we think your child gets along at camp as an individual and as part of a group . |
| 14 | ‘ Culture ’ can be defined in a myriad of ways and often appears to be used not as an independent , or explanatory , variable but as a residual one representing a variety of unspecified influences . |
| 15 | Small-scale production may have a certain place within a socialist economy but as a general alternative to modern large-scale industry it is merely utopian . |
| 16 | He sees the month in New Zealand , where he played against the All Blacks in 1985 , not as a final proving ground but as a searching test of known ability and attitudes . |
| 17 | They did not want their gesture to be viewed as part of that historical movement but as a genuine protest with genuine grievances . |
| 18 | Indeed , it has been suggested that it is here that the ‘ site ’ of psychosis lies ; not in a strictly anatomical sense but as a functional property , determining the way the corpus callosum modulates the flow of information between the hemispheres . |
| 19 | Bruce Alexander thus plays the lycanthropic Ferdinand not as some howling lunatic but as a haunted , guilt-ridden creature . |
| 20 | If Ben Leggatt had earned his living , not as an odd job man at Weston Longville rectory but as a private soldier in one of His Majesty 's foot regiments billetted in Bungay , he would have found the shopkeepers overwilling to let him take away purchases on a promise to pay later — had it not been for the ‘ Crying Down The Credits ’ . |
| 21 | As the remaining congregation of St. Mary Magdalene had joined St. Nicholas Church , it was decided not to rebuild as a church but as a new Hall and premises for the congregation of St. Nicholas parish . |
| 22 | This is conceived not as a set of hardware but as a comprehensive information system focused on the needs identified by the ESSC ( see above ) and anticipating somewhat those of IGBP . |
| 23 | ( Quoted in LISC Report , 1984 ) Against this background the ESSE/L Project is particularly to be welcomed , not only as an attempt to improve provision in the county but as a potential model for other authorities to follow in attempting to correct a generally unsatisfactory situation . |
| 24 | His first words were a salute to the people of South Africa , to whom he declared : " I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you , the people . |
| 25 | Gould assumed a superior status over his fellow naturalist , not only as his employer but as a new member of the middle-classes . |
| 26 | Although it was more mundane than its northern contemporary , it had a greater influence on subsequent town planning because it was not conceived as industrial housing but as a genuine attempt to improve living conditions for the working classes and encourage independence . |
| 27 | However , the results of experiments on members of a number of African tribes whose culture does not include the custom of depicting three-dimensional objects by two-dimensional perspective drawings indicate that the members of those tribes would not have seen Figure 3 as a staircase but as a two-dimensional array of lines . |
| 28 | ‘ Industry should n't be seen as the problem but as a major part of the solution to environmental improvement , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The disintegration of space/time was still taking place ! — only this thought came to me not in any orderly way but as a confused recollection of a passage in Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar — |
| 30 | The older coherence of a specialized literate culture was challenged alike by these genuine initiatives and by the eventually widespread reproduction of imputed popular material , in speculative and profitable works designed for an expansion seen not as a changing culture but as a new and decisive market . |