Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] as [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many ways this was a reaction to the centuries of domination by the Church with its demand for faith alone as the understanding of life . |
| 2 | The other day I bought the enchanting ASV CD of clarinet Concertos by played by Emma Johnson and read the notes only as an afterthought this morning , having already listened to the disc several times . |
| 3 | Our table lists the factor that influences most choices — the price per gallon — but this should not be taken as a measure of value for money merely as an indicator of price . |
| 4 | ‘ It owes much to acting of charm and conviction from Michael Crawford and Sarah Long as the boy and girl , ’ wrote the Coventry Evening Telegraph critic . |
| 5 | Indeed , for the local authorities ( many of whom were angry that the Government were treating nationalisation merely as a book-keeping transaction within the public sector and thus paying them little compensation for the takeover ) , the maintenance of uneconomically low prices was one way of getting their own back for the local ratepayers ( who were also usually electricity consumers ) . |
| 6 | We stop seeing prayer merely as a means of asking for things from God — important though that is . |
| 7 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 8 | Some councillors , who saw Bernard only as a source of irritation , might have welcomed that . |
| 9 | For all his doubts and self-irony , Palomar still wants to penetrate the secrets of the world and , to this end , what is seen acts only as a means of activating the thoughtfulness of language . |
| 10 | So I fell for it and I volunteered for the Guards , but after a week , they decided I , I 'd got flat feet which was n't very good for slamming your foot down as the guards demanded in those days . |
| 11 | Sexual intercourse which is forced by a threat to strangle the victim or to beat her senseless ranks only as a Category 3 offence if no weapon is used . |
| 12 | joined our maintenance department on as an electrician . |
| 13 | Perhaps the same thing happened to him on Weathertop , where he put the Ring on as the Ringwraiths closed in , but the words used there are ‘ temptation ’ and ‘ desire ’ — ‘ his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring . |
| 14 | I ca n't quite see the reason for discounting second homes altogether as the D O E have done . |
| 15 | When feminism becomes respectable — and if the world has n't been turned upside down as a consequence — the significance of our achievements needs to be examined carefully . |
| 16 | The mob rose and attacked Gaunt 's palace of the Savoy , hanging his coat of arms upside down as the sign of a traitor . |
| 17 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 18 | But his party had neither a national nor an ideological base , and was used by the president merely as a vehicle for his political advancement . |
| 19 | As a safeguard , the Bank of Italy 's rules are likely to allow banks to take stakes in industry only as the strength of their balance sheets and the depth of their merchant-banking experience permit . |
| 20 | A flower or tree might well be said to show signs of distress much as an athlete might unwittingly show symptoms of it , although it would be inappropriate to describe a watch in that way . |
| 21 | We are now supposed to understand Enterprise Solutions less as a show than as a high-level executive meeting that might pass for a meeting of the Unix War College . |
| 22 | We agents , however , must represent anything with the air of a cock-up only as an opportunity to demonstrate the Partei 's brilliance in extricating itself from it . |
| 23 | ‘ I only sent the tape in as a joke , ’ Harry cheerfully admitted . |
| 24 | In the UK , according to Piers Merchant , Director of Public Affairs for the Advertising Association , ‘ The total advertising spend for last year in all media was £7.5bn. so as a percentage of that tobacco advertising is very small … |
| 25 | He reined in the horse suddenly as an idea dawned on him . |
| 26 | " Take Tristram along as a younker , and let it be known in the village you 're doing so . |
| 27 | See , on the other hand , because it can evoke the bare fact of visual perception , is capable of evoking perception merely as a cause of knowledge and no more than that . |
| 28 | We have seen above that this involves a shift from the concrete perceptual meaning of " following a phenomenon with the senses " to viewing perception merely as the basis for asserting that the infinitive 's event really took place . |
| 29 | Of course those who regarded the study of mind only as a branch of metaphysics smiled at the ineptitude of the mere man of science . |
| 30 | The difficulty lies principally in that , whereas most scientists and engineers operate in a three-dimensional world capable of reasonable representation on a television screen , the multivariate nature of data analysis goes far beyond this into a space of m dimensions conceivable to the human mind only as an abstraction . |