Example sentences of "some as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed Mulliner 's collection contains an entire repertory : original keyboard pieces , some brilliant , some as sober as most of Redford 's organ hymns , transcriptions of Latin motets , English anthems and unsophisticated secular part-songs , a few dances , and a ‘ fancy ’ , probably originally for viols , by one Newman otherwise unknown . |
| 2 | This finding is borne out by a study by Weinrich-Haste ( 1986 ) which found that , while some subjects were rated by schoolchildren and undergraduates as definitely masculine , and some as neutral , none was rated as definitely feminine : a finding which suggests that the arts/science divide is not a symmetrical feminine/masculine divide , but one which is distinctly asymmetrical . |
| 3 | So got to continue on there on behaviours recognize people that you see around about recognize to be aggressive , some as assertive some as passive . |
| 4 | And referring to the council 's hardship panel he added : ‘ We have had scores of people with high mortgages , some as much as £600–£700 a month , which gives an indication that people who have not paid are not just one class of people . ’ |
| 5 | The postcrania are also heavily scored with tooth marks , some present as deep sinuous grooves and some as multiple striated flattened grooves ( Fig. 1.3 C-F ) . |
| 6 | A six-month inquiry concluded last May that children , some as young as nine , were kept in solitary confinement for weeks , sometimes months , at a time by care staff using the Pindown system . |
| 7 | Some as young as eleven and twelve , these ‘ migrant labourers ’ went looking for work and did not always find it , turning to other less than legal ways of earning their bread . |
| 8 | Many children , some as young as five or six , have been killed or badly wounded , some on their way to or from school and kindergarten . |
| 9 | Juliet Gellatley , head of Youth Education at the Vegetarian Society , hears from hundreds of parents of vegetarians and would-be vegetarian youngsters ( some as young as five ) wanting advice on nutrition . |
| 10 | In the West African republic of Liberia where eighty five per cent of the population have been displaced , children , some as young as eight are being placed in secure compounds to prevent them from going back to fight for the waring factions . |
| 11 | Ninety four people were arrested some as young as fifteen in the first month … |
| 12 | Police believe children , some as young as 14 , are responsible for taking small amounts of food and money . |
| 13 | And a recent survey showed one-in-four Newry teenagers — some as young as 15 — have dabbled with drugs . |
| 14 | Gangs of children some as young as eight have been targeting pensioners in the town centre and have stolen money and property worth hundreds of pounds . |
| 15 | ‘ Help — Have you been offered small ( some as little as one litre in volume ) cylindrical jars as aquaria , possibly by a company trading under the name of ‘ Aquario ’ ? |
| 16 | Children , it is suggested , need to be inducted into the main forms or aspects of the culture they live in , partly because this will equip them to lead full adult lives , and partly because culture seems to some as inclusive a concept as one can find for planning a general education . |
| 17 | " Relative prominence " implies that for us to have a rhythmic response to a piece of language we must perceive some of its constituents as strong and some as weak relative to each other . |
| 18 | Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker . |
| 19 | He noticed that hundreds of mushrooms had sprouted since his last visit , some as large as saucers . |
| 20 | A further reason for the apparently high numbers of these hoards could be that , since the coins of this era were very debased , hoards tended to be very large : hoards of 3000 pieces are typical and some as large as 50,000 have been recorded . |
| 21 | In turn , more fragmentary finds such as those from Vértesszöllös ( Hungary ) and Bilzingsleben ( Germany ) , regarded by some as representing H. erectus , may also be linked morphologically to the Petralona-Atapuerca group . |
| 22 | These figures range from Azam Khan , ‘ one of the chief nobles of the Empire ’ whose principal claim to fame is his vast harem and his insatiable appetites ( ‘ a pederast , he is also fond of beautiful girls … whenever he is informed of the availability of a lad or a fine wench he endeavours to be the buyer ’ ) ; through Taqi , ‘ one of the famous eunuchs and the ringleader of the conjurors of Hindustan ’ ( ‘ his house is the abode of delicate beauties , some as fair as the dawn while others are as dark as volatile passion ’ ) ; to great musicians such as the blind drummer Shah Nawaz who played his own stomach as if it was a tabla drum ; or the disgusting Surkhi , a glutton who ‘ snored and expectorated loudly ’ but whose horrible habits were overlooked by his hosts because of the unique beauty of his voice ( ‘ as melodious as a nightingale ’ ) , his brilliant mimicry and his ready wit . |
| 23 | Lizards of course became birds — some as unearthly as the Greater Bird of Paradise , and others , like the Cassowary , which reversed tactics somewhere in the past and returned to the earth again . |
| 24 | From photographs I see that some were dressed as chickens , some as rabbits , some as Indian statesmen . |
| 25 | The ultimate self-help information service , whereby the information system is available in the waiting room , is regarded by some as unworkable and by others as a highly desirable step forward . |
| 26 | Very occasionally , flower-like impressions were detected on them , some the size of a buttercup , some as big as a rose . |
| 27 | The ground was broken by rifts and pits of naked , black peat , where water lay and sharp , white stones , some as big as a pigeon 's , some as a rabbit 's skull , glimmered in the moonlight . |
| 28 | There are tables and anecdotes to satisfy the enthusiast ( the list of vehicles may be seen by some as excessive ) and also lessons for the contemporary practitioner . |
| 29 | It has some 20,000 prints and drawings of a topographical nature , and about 3000 broadsheets , some as old as 600 years . |
| 30 | The original Cardiff festival in 1986 combined experimental improvisational work with an attempt to ‘ show ’ the kind of work being done — something criticised by some as irrelevant and impossible to achieve in just two weeks . |