Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] as [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 2 | After all that , the merely adequate Korova Milk Bar come as something of a relief . |
| 3 | After all that , the merely adequate Korova Milk Bar come as something of a relief . |
| 4 | Hitchcock should have worried more about some of the dull and static sequences earlier in the film , after which the bus chase comes as something of a lift , even if overextended . |
| 5 | In neither case , does the activity of a postman emerge as something which could be good if it existed in isolation . |
| 6 | The defendants , some of them very young , belonged to a small left-wing group known as Everyone for the Motherland Movement ( Movimiento Todos por la Patria — MTP ) ; at the time 13 of them were arrested inside the barracks and five nearby , while two , including a priest , surrendered later . |
| 7 | But he always wanted to be the one in control , the top dog , to be the one who could take off on a whim and relate his volatility to democratic individual freedom to do as one pleased — a special privilege to which only Americans were supposed to be entitled . |
| 8 | Jim and his wife Jan have been married for 18 years and the baby came as something of a surprise . |
| 9 | The feel of his strong fingers enclosing her small palm came as something of a shock to her system . |
| 10 | We see this in : ( 59 ) the bicycles damaged all had red handlebars The article here has virtually no function except to commend the entity identified as one which the audience should be able to recognize , and recognition focuses on the property damaged . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the writing remains as something separate from the experience and if teachers do not know how they can usefully respond to the writing as a text , then their part in helping children improve their writing is insignificant . |
| 12 | ‘ Callanish lies in the far north of the Western Isles where sea and land ant sky meet as one . |
| 13 | A MIGHTY blow for honesty can be struck today at Lord 's — nothing is required beyond the crowd rising as one for Allan Lamb . |
| 14 | The Council of Europe defines the low paid as someone earning less than £163 a week in 1989 . |
| 15 | The power comes as something of a surprise . |