Example sentences of "but as [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had hens and ducks of their own , but as tenants of the family in the big house they were commissioned to rear only beef cattle . |
| 2 | Because what is truly remarkable , given the nostalgic lament which has accompanied the subsequent displacement of this ‘ traditional way of life ’ , is that in their own historical time these emerging cultural institutions were greeted not only as something ‘ new ’ , but as signs of an alarming development among the British people which threatened to destroy the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 3 | Cognos will also offer Motif client support sometime soon — but as co-founders of anti-software industry hype body The Software Business Practices Council , Cognos is cautious about announcing anything not shippable within 90 days . |
| 4 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 5 | For him , the provinces made sense not as descriptive units but as products of a historical process that explained their existence in purely natural terms . |
| 6 | So when his teacher later elaborated terms such as ‘ ratio ’ , he understood immediately what they meant — not as mathematical abstractions but as elements of the real world . |
| 7 | Having accepted that , we then have the obligation to recognise them not as mere units of production but as beings with rights to a reasonable quality of life and a gentle death . |
| 8 | But we believe that people can realise their potential best not as isolated individuals , but as members of thriving and responsible communities . |
| 9 | Human beings relate to one another not as complex reflex machines but as persons for whom the focal point in behaviour is the mutual transaction between one individual 's psychosocial experience and that of another . |
| 10 | From the moment we wake to the moment we fall asleep we think , we feel , we choose , we speak , we act , not as isolated individuals but as persons among people . |
| 11 | New Historicism refuses to see texts as passive reflections of the cultural whole , but as interventions within it , fashioned by the whole but also re-fashioning the existing orders through which culture is written and understood . |
| 12 | Ravenhill saw the revelations of medicine and eugenics pointing to a greater role for women , not only as mothers but as guardians of those aesthetic qualities which made for physical , intellectual and moral progress . |
| 13 | Considering literary texts not as autonomous utterances out of history , but as illustrations of a Renaissance culture whose forms of representation are conditioned by the social , political world they participate in has prompted readings of texts which seek to restore their former agencies and original discursive energies . |
| 14 | But as feelings of guilt suddenly swamped her , only then did Fabia appreciate how much she had been herself with Ven . |
| 15 | A number of attempts were made to introduce such courses in the next few years , but as experiments in applied anthropology they were all failures . |
| 16 | The renewed popularity of Japanese gardens , not only as places to visit but as inspirations for western design , can be seen in two forthcoming books : Maggie Oster 's Japanese Garden Style ( Cassell , March , £19.99 , 0 304 34222 X ) , and Philip Cave 's Creating Japanese Gardens ( Aurum Press , May , £19.99 , 1 85410 212 5 ) , which comes with an imprimatur from Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe . |
| 17 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 18 | But as agents of formal caring systems , they do in fact hold a great deal of power which can be exercised as much by withholding as by giving . |
| 19 | If other Victorian novelists do not set fire to their great houses with as much frequency as Dickens , they tend in other ways to undermine them , suggesting that they too perceive them , not merely as fabrics , but as expressions of an outmoded system . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) Where co-owners of an estate or interest in any land , … not being itself partnership property , are partners as to profits made by the use of that land or estate , and purchase other land or estate out of the profits to be used in like manner , the land or estate so purchased belongs to them , in the absence of an agreement to the contrary , not as partners but as co-owners for the same respective estates and interests as are held by them in the land or estate first mentioned at the date of the purchase . |
| 21 | Common to these readings is the observation of fundamental connections and parallels between the merchant and the monk , not just as individuals but as representatives of late medieval culture in a very broad form : of economic and religious life . |
| 22 | Something very similar is found in L'Esquiriel , in which the boy 's figurative euphemisms — squirrel , nest , eggs — are not simply comic as signifiers of " real " objects — penis , scrotum or pubic hair , testicles — but as signifiers of the sort of language that the girl has already talked about — vit , coilles , etc. — but is discouraged from using . |
| 23 | Magnificent as it is , Somerset House was designed not as an arts centre , of course , but as offices for the civil servants whom Mr Heseltine now proposes to eject . |
| 24 | With reference to the official statistics , Durkheim did this first of all by regarding the rates compiled by officials in the pursuance of their routine duties as not so much a simple factual registration of certain types of death , but as indicators of a " suicidogenic " current caused by various states of society itself . |
| 25 | It was argued in the Senate that presidents were using executive agreements not for minor matters , as originally intended , but as vehicles for entering into major foreign and defence policy commitments without reference to congress . |
| 26 | But as appraisers of well constructed sentences , over-use of long words , and in some cases the degree of action in your style of writing , they have their place . |
| 27 | There were District Officers , and there were Assistant District Officers , but they were stationed at regional headquarters where they functioned , not as independent administrators , but as assistants to the Resident : as late as 1921 the Resident at Kano declined to accept the posting of political officers to permanent stations in the districts . |
| 28 | But as revenues from oil , Gabon 's principal export , fall , so pressure on the forest — and its elephants — grows . |
| 29 | They must be seen by us not only as a new type of settlement but as places with individual characters and their own idiosyncrasies . |
| 30 | Certainly it was the British who now ruled the land but they ruled it not as owners or conquerors , but as trustees for the League of Nations . |