The phrase "conception as a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the idea or understanding of something in a specific context, often in academic or philosophical discussions.
Example: "The artist's work reflects a unique conception as a form of social commentary."
Alternatives: "understanding as a" or "interpretation as a".
It's as elegant in conception as a windup toy.
Likewise, many of Washington's problems spring from its conception as a showpiece rather than a working city.
"The idea of 'One China' is at the heart of their conception as a nation and so if you are going to upend this understanding, you have to have thought through what are the consequences".
When he is at his best -- and bad Gainsborough is meretricious and banal -- the results are as organic in conception as a quick sketch, and have the personable flair of a signature.
"The idea of 'one China' is at the heart of their conception as a nation," Obama said, "and so if you are going to upend this understanding, you have to have thought through what are the consequences.
The great William Harvey referred to conception as a "dark business," and even leading researchers tended to advance only so far before lapsing into old habits of airy speculation and reliance on classical authorities.
Then out it came as a standalone feature, albeit one still haunted by the ghosts of its original conception as an open-ended narrative; a first act that falls into shadow.
It's this way of approaching a work from its conception as an interrelated structure of planes, space and light, that informed Einstein on the Beach – his famous collaboration with composer Philip Glass.
He emphatically dismisses this conception as an unfruitful and meaningless speculation, because, as he says, the aim of physics is only to describe observable data.
Gingrich noted that Mourdock later clarified he had been referring to conception as an act of God, not the rape that led to it, though of course the conception and the sexual attack are inextricably linked.
Dzi Croquettes conception as an all male, openly bi-sexual, political, communal arts group is astounding, considering the fact that they were performing during one of the most oppressive military dictatorships of the 20th century.
