The phrase "as a semblance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that appears to be a certain way, often implying that it is not genuine or complete.
Example: "The event was organized as a semblance of a celebration, but the atmosphere was quite somber."
Alternatives: "as a facade" or "as an illusion".
In imposing what Mr. Weston-Jones described as "a semblance of law and order," no wonder Corcoran admits to often doing "the wrong things for the right reasons".
G&P Builders is advertising its subdivision as a microcosm of "American country living," while A. Brown Co. is promoting its project as "a semblance of spring in New York".
The final artist in the series is Luc Tuymans, who - like all the artists in the exhibition - is clearly interested in images not as a semblance of reality, but as they might be imagined.
Critic Michelle Phillips Buchberger describes this first ending as "a semblance of verisimilitude in the traditional 'happy ending'" found in actual Victorian novels.
Most residents have fled, but those who stayed are savoring what they describe as a semblance of order and tranquility in a city that had been a warzone for more than a year.
It's a lot harder than it sounds because as soon as you have a semblance of Jesus and Mary or whatever, they both dry out into almost nothing.
At the time it was hailed by the corporation as providing a semblance of long-term certainty for its funding arrangements.
I have learned as much as I can with a semblance of dignity.
Having said that, though, it's the exception that proves the rule, containing as it does a semblance of wit and a hoary old pun, two essential ingredients of any great modern headline.
And while Condoleezza Rice quotes with approval OSCE reports on Belarus, she seems less keen to respond to its verdict on central Asian states such as Turkmenistan - a country that an OSCE official, Hrair Baliyan, has described as lacking even a "semblance of pluralism".
However, the appearance condition, here expressed as fallacies having a semblance of correctness about them, remains in full force.
