Example sentences of "[noun] but as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King and his politicians were usually on good enough terms to avoid these extreme steps but as the decades passed the King found he was sharing more of his power with Parliament . |
| 2 | The contradictions that are built into the term ‘ inner city ’ have to be seen not as the root of analytical uncertainty but as the source of rhetorical utility . |
| 3 | At the time of the transfer it would have cost £6,000 to buy a new model of the same car but as the car was one year old its second-hand value was only £4,000 . |
| 4 | He found no responsivity to the reflex blink elicited by the air puff but as the animal learned to make the conditioned eyeblink response to the tone , electrical activity was noted . |
| 5 | The Polish Solidarnosc , an unequivocal worker movement , opposed the regime not only as a class force but as the authentic voice of the Polish nation . |
| 6 | I would agree it is always difficult for small Associations to achieve sponsorship but as the saying goes ‘ if at first you do n't succeed … ’ |
| 7 | Olsen also mentioned that Frank and a couple of other U21 players has all along been good enough for the WC-squad but as the U21 team had a chance for making it in their own qualifying these players were not considered when games collided ( they usually do ) . |
| 8 | Unable to pay his playing staff , crisis followed crisis but as the 1980s arrived , dramatic changes were about to unfold . |
| 9 | That is , liberty should not be viewed as the absence of compulsion but as the empowerment of all members of society to make the best of themselves . |
| 10 | At first this was a slow process but as the group got bigger the church planting gained in momentum . |
| 11 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 12 | At first the operations were dropping bomb loads on known terrorist targets but as the communist bandits employed more elusive tactics the air operations had to be restructured to accommodate the changing nature of the communist operations . |
| 13 | Just once there had been a fight but as the then leader of the Louts had , unwittingly , taken on a junior boxing champion , he had ceased appearing . |
| 14 | The West coast side have gone off the rails in recent weeks following successive defeats by Western and Hazlehead but as the cup is realistically their last chance of glory this term they will certainly not concede defeat from the want of effort . |
| 15 | This is of clear benefit to French artists but as the present exhibition shows , other European artists gain also . |
| 16 | Not , for him , chance as the hero 's luck but as the effect of random events on the particular weakness or strength of an individual . |
| 17 | Like everyone , they appreciate better value for money but as the newspapers have got bigger and bigger , they have found they have bought fewer . |
| 18 | The system works excellently over short distances but as the length of the tube increases , so it becomes more and more inefficient . |
| 19 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 20 | The weekend was a bargain at four pounds but as the food arrived I began to see why . |
| 21 | At the beginning of the novel we are reasonably sympathetic towards Pip but as the novel progresses we become less sympathetic towards him , as he becomes a snob , embarrassed of his family in Joe , and we feel that he does n't deserve sympathy as he brought it on himself . |
| 22 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 23 | By the time Khrushchev sat down , Stalin stood revealed not as the dear father but as the mass murderer of his people . |
| 24 | I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know . |
| 25 | They knew Richard Neville not as some hard-done-by humorist but as the author of the paperback Playpower which became the handbook of the international drop-outs and bemused pot-smoking youngsters , persuaded to believe that society was rotten , life was too tough and the odds too heavily stacked against them — the best thing to do was to drop out and bum around . |
| 26 | We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole . |
| 27 | Banbridge was receiving 13lb from Clever Folly but as the winner subsequently went on to triumph in the A F Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham , breaking the track record in the process , there is little wrong with the form . |
| 28 | The Popplewells told Mr Smith that they would continue with the show but as the country was in such a state of uncertainty they would not be able to pay the Girls ’ wages ! |
| 29 | When Ramakrishna saw Kasi the Holy City , he did not see it as a physical city but as the dreams and hopes of holy pilgrims that had fallen on the city , stratum on stratum so that it became a city of holy ideas , a spiritual city . |
| 30 | Fry 's chocolates were made in the old centre of the city but as the business expanded they needed a large space for a modern factory and also easy ways of distributing the goods . |