Example sentences of "as a type " in BNC.
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| 1 | It consists in pointing out the fact that , as soon as we use the stages as a type of classification , we find we have more doubtful borderline cases than typical ones , because of the great variation of social systems in history in different parts of the world . |
| 2 | Whether he really existed or not , he stands as a type of the most bloodthirsty and battle-frenzied of Celtic warriors . |
| 3 | This might be regarded either as a kind of dune slack or as a type of poor fen . |
| 4 | These stories describe a form of religion commonly described as paganism , and represent what can clearly be understood as a type of polytheism . |
| 5 | Thus domestic service must be seen as a type of economic relationship operating in all levels of society . |
| 6 | Maud too saw him as a type ; in her case he represented the restriction and boredom of countless childhood country weekends of shooting and tramping and sporting conversation . |
| 7 | What began as a type of disposition within the will became in later law the extra-testamentary disposition par excellence . |
| 8 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |
| 9 | Both may be used as a shopping method ( selected for its convenience ) rather than as a type of credit . |
| 10 | In assuming the mantle of David and writing his own psalms , he may even be expressing in this work a sense of identification with David as a type of Christ . |
| 11 | The flash RAM card can be used as a type of electronic hard disk , consisting of non-volatile RAM chips which retain their memory when you turn the power off . |
| 12 | The expected organism was grown from the original site of minor surgery on her back and was confirmed as a type of S aureus producing toxic shock syndrome toxin I. Isolation of such a toxin is diagnostically helpful , but there is substantial evidence that other staphylococcal enterotoxins contribute to a high mortality . |
| 13 | Pragmatic or contextual knowledge can be seen as a type of meta-knowledge , having effects throughout the other levels . |
| 14 | One way to think of this is as a type of economies of joint production . |
| 15 | Formerly , it was regarded as a type of Sulawesi warty pig and , more recently , as a type of bearded pig . |
| 16 | Formerly , it was regarded as a type of Sulawesi warty pig and , more recently , as a type of bearded pig . |
| 17 | These layers are ejected as a type II supernova explosion , of which SN1987a was a recent example . |
| 18 | Explaining her painting strategy in producing within a closely defined genre , Delia says ‘ I do n't do ‘ Spaniels ’ as a type . |
| 19 | In opposition to this perspective are those sceptical of models which project the past as a type of organic whole , a unified continuity which is subject to a continuous explanatory narrative . |
| 20 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 21 | Within the narrative of Greenblatt 's book — opening with him considering the ‘ magic ’ of Shakespeare revivifying the dead in Greenblatt 's own voice , concluding with Greenblatt considering Shakespeare as substitute fetish for the book which the natives believed was stealing their life — this latter story also stands as a type of anecdote or fable about part of New Historicism 's critical enterprise . |
| 22 | He sets Ireland up as a type of extreme place — a place possibly cursed in its very soil or divinely reserved to act as a scourge for England . |
| 23 | They have been identified as a type of coral-like single-cell organism and the radioactive materials detected are in line with authorised effluent discharges from Sellafield during the past year . |
| 24 | This will be the case quite regularly so that it is not in the least surprising if in many instances general expectations have crystallized into rigid habits ( which might be called syntactic " rules " ) governing the possibilities open to an adjective as a type item , irrespective of the facts of any particular token occasion . |
| 25 | In its 40th year as a type , on the 10th anniversary of its only active service and the year before the 40th anniversary of the RAF , the aircraft is increasingly viewed by those who hold the purse strings as an anachronism — a symbol of a past which has no relevance in the new future . |
| 26 | The term " joke " itself covers a wealth of different kinds , and is difficult to distinguish from ( related ? ) genres like graffiti ( much quoted from here ) and cartoon ( one produced on p. 81 , but not discussed as a type ) . |