Example sentences of "as [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Co-ordination was still seen as predominantly a ‘ top-down ’ process by planners and did not at this time focus upon activities at the client level . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 10 | ‘ Being reminded that she 's actually married always comes as rather a blow , ’ Luke commented , watching her go . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A Silmarillion on that plan could have ended as merely a pastime for scholars . |
| 17 | It 's what they call in governmental circles , an IDIQ or Indefinite Delivery , Indefinite Quantity contract , described elsewhere as merely a ‘ hunting licence . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But however striking , the hair had to be viewed as merely a trailer to the main feature of Gyggle 's appearance , the beard . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The NCMD should not be regarded as merely a means to obtain sites and impress councils or other bodies . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |