Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that religion wo n't just go away — that it is a phenomenon to be explained — has led those influenced by positivism to explain religion as entirely a matter of social and cultural conditioning and outward show : basically religion is a kind of cultural dressing-up game . |
| 2 | The underlying approach of codification in re-forming the law has stressed the mechanistic nature of legal reasoning as essentially a syllogistic exercise . |
| 3 | They see our future as merely an offshore island for foreign investment which guarantees some tenuous future in the European Community . |
| 4 | It would be possible to dismiss the Plus Programme as merely an expression of a different style , without substance or commitment to institutional change . |
| 5 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |
| 6 | There has , in fact , been a tendency to avoid the issue and view self-esteem as primarily an enduring trait . |
| 7 | Indeed , his view of this independent sovereign as purely a pawn in the French political game was never more clearly seen than in 1556 , when he contemplated marrying her to the English nobleman Edward lord Courtenay , in response to the threat that Philip of Spain , then married to Mary Tudor , would give her sister Elizabeth as a bride to Ferdinand of Austria . |
| 8 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Since adherents of this first school regard college as primarily an intellectual training ground , they stress the inherent educational value of such subjects as classical languages ( Greek and Latin ) , political philosophy or English literature , all of which encourage the development of sensitivity , subtle and flexible reasoning , intellectual ingenuity and the willingness to see all sides of an argument . |
| 10 | For David Marquand 's main mistake is to see the policy review as merely an exercise in junking outmoded policies . |
| 11 | As for the avant-garde , we can see the development of modernism as precisely an outraged and deliberately esoteric response to the new drive towards total commodification . |
| 12 | To take the Liberals first , it had been a commonplace of political analysis over previous years to regard the Liberal vote as largely a product of temporary disillusion with the Tories following on periods of Tory government , as a protest vote . |
| 13 | Whatever the pathophysiological basis of RP may be , however , it is worthy of serious study as a ‘ human experimental model ’ of inflammatory bowel disease , rather than cavalier dismissal as simply a ‘ misdiagnosis ’ of Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | Palatine , on the other hand , remains loyal to the image of the pub as basically a ‘ boozer ’ , and few of our establishments really encourage patronage by women and mixed company . |
| 15 | For the moment , we would point out that traditional theories of law , such as positivism , are characterised by a lack of concern for such perspectives , tending to regard law as both a static and isolated social phenomenon ; and insofar as they consider political struggle at all , they regard it as merely a struggle for the control of law as an ‘ instrument ’ . |
| 16 | ( Similarly , he identifies the law as both an ISA and part of the RSA since it functions both to coerce and to reproduce ruling class values . ) |
| 17 | Science popularisers often make the same claim , dismissing the Sun as just a run-of-the-mill star . |
| 18 | Building on this , targets and benchmarks could be introduced that could overcome the lingering tendency to see risk management as simply an overhead ( ’ even though , ‘ Ure said , ‘ it costs nothing to sit down and work out threats and actions ’ ) . |
| 19 | It was slowly becoming less necessary to present artists and their management as either a ) choirboys or b ) fairy godmothers . |
| 20 | It is , however , a mistake to pigeon-hole Corinth as just a city of traders , craftsmen and luxury . |
| 21 | They need to be understood in the context of psychoanalysis as both a method of therapy and a body of findings about how human beings act . |
| 22 | The psychoanalytic movement , partly under Freud 's own direction , did develop the characteristics of a sectarian organization rather than those of an open scientific community , but this does not invalidate the arguments for psychoanalysis as potentially a key component of the human sciences . |
| 23 | They see the child as basically a , a little animal , a wild animal , who has to be tamed , and er , disciplined and controlled by er , various means , and er , this is the , I think the view of the child that was more popular in British education , at least traditional education , which erm , for the public schools of Eton , which in this country was based on er , on er brutality , I think there 's the only word you can call it . |
| 24 | Government negotiators , however , reportedly declined to accept this interpretation , seeing the zone as simply an area where the rebels could disarm and disband . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ If each partner comes to regard marriage as primarily a quest for his or her self-fulfilment , rather than as an adventure in reciprocal self-giving , through.which parents and children grow into maturity , then the outlook is likely to be bleak ’ ( John Stott , Issues Facing Christians Today , Marshalls , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | Another strange bird had descended in great flocks on the Mokai , much to Gould 's delight as only a single specimen had ever been delivered to England prior to 1839 , which was in the collection of the Linnean Society . |
| 28 | Apart from programs designed for vertical markets or specially written for a particular job , most of the products you 'll find are ‘ pen aware ’ which means they can recognize a pen as both a mouse and an input device , but do n't have any other facilities to take advantage of the pen . |
| 29 | To present Methodism as essentially an urban phenomenon is seriously misleading . |
| 30 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |