The phrase "as a very clever" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that demonstrates intelligence or cleverness in a particular context.
Example: "She approached the problem as a very clever strategist, finding solutions that others had overlooked."
Alternatives: "as an exceptionally smart" or "as a highly intelligent".
Observing this, a friend of mine made what struck me as a very clever remark about our "stegosaurus brains".
There is nothing so silly as a very clever man, and his prescription is as fruitful as arguing that a prawn should be a giraffe.
Dr. Bertram praised the team's tracking collar as "a very clever approach" that uses the latest technology to study cheetah movement in a way that had never been done before.
Having already described him as "a very clever, able, active and judicious man," he now recognized his intellectual and administrative ability and his humanism and concern for the Javanese, and on September 11 he proclaimed him lieutenant governor of Java.
Indeed, he is sometimes seen as relishing the opportunities for such martyrdom a little too much; one former colleague describes him as a "very clever, very angry teddy bear".
His chum Grade once described Cotton as a very clever negotiator who always told artists the truth about themselves, a man who was intelligent if no intellectual, intuitive and wise, unselfish and, strikingly, perhaps not ambitious enough on his own behalf.
An Afghan official that the Post spoke to left it as, "He was a very clever man".
"Before one's big opening?" is a wonderfully twisted clue for PRE-OP, and "D-Day divider?" clues the partial AS IN in a very clever way that I never would have thought of.
It was a gimmick but, as usual, a very clever one.
The Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon's Caprice for Orchestra No 1 begins as though a very clever and voluble friend is entering the room, already talking to others, and while you don't know what the conversation is about or where it is heading, you just have to try to catch up.
It's as if a very clever political poisoned pill has been put into place.
