Example sentences of "[noun] as some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 2 | The objections that are raised against identity assumptions in respect of meanings in such a context are chiefly motivated by the fear that such assumptions might commit us to accepting meanings as some kind of entities . |
| 3 | However , this is not the case as some of our partners are operating tours for coaching , coaches passing through their borders . |
| 4 | Yes , it would have been quite useful to have given that tape as some indication on that little diagram on the tape recorder , about a minute or , they 're all standard tape recorders , how much measure , how much is it in terms of time , a minute of your tape is ten minutes |
| 5 | It is probable that the economic situation in the industrial countries will deteriorate further in the longer term as some of the constraints upon growth which I discussed earlier take effect ; and there will then be a much greater likelihood of conflict among the rich nations themselves in the struggle for natural resources , markets and some kind of economic growth , while the poorer developing countries will experience increasing hardship and may reach a point of economic collapse . |
| 6 | Poppy 's mother was concerned her daughter might regard the home therapy as some kind of punishment . |
| 7 | But then , if IRS had wanted to be scrupulously honest , they 'd have had to call the compilation ‘ A Cynical Attempt To Cash In On R.E.M . 's Current Popularity By Fobbing Off Yet Another Collection of Old Songs As Some Kind Of Definitive Statement ’ . |
| 8 | Many people today still see Freud as some kind of sexual pervert , taking his theories to be rather far-fetched . |
| 9 | He supposed it was somewhere under the rug , perhaps held on to by old Josh as some sort of comforter . |
| 10 | Philip told what is , in fact , an extraordinary tale beginning as the not uncommon ( for those times ) attempt to rescue a poor but talented boy from his circumstances and ending as some sort of love story . |
| 11 | On the basis of past experience the child is likely to try and interpret the adult 's next act as some form of ‘ comment ’ on this topic . |
| 12 | She could only look on Roirbak as some kind of doctor who would be dealing with her intimately shortly . |
| 13 | " My friends were saying , " Well done for making the cut " , while I myself saw the next two rounds as some form of punishment . |
| 14 | Both were under the power of men , then at the end they are wholly independent of men , free women , this enabled them to talk to their oppressors as some sort of equals . |
| 15 | Sadly , we are taught to look upon emotions as some kind of social disease . |
| 16 | And what about Body Shop supremo Anita Roddick , the woman who has been feted for the last ten years as some kind of environmentally conscious feminist icon . |
| 17 | Might as well go and talk to the doorpost as some of your clients , might n't you ? |
| 18 | But colleagues , although my region supports the document , with such an important issue , caution must be our by-word as some regions have had more success than others . |
| 19 | No pope in history has ever had as much power over the lives of his flock as some of these self-styled leaders in the Western fellowships . |
| 20 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 21 | It is a fallacy to regard that process as some kind of negative slippery slope along which each reluctant step should be seen as more sinful than the last . |
| 22 | the was posted to France and Belgium as part of the British Expedition Force , in the first few months of the outbreak of the war in 1939 , and he realised then that the British Army was not nearly professional enough , compared with the German Army , and he noticed that many of the British Commanding Officers continued to treat the waging of war as some kind of game . |
| 23 | Matthew Geffen , manager of New Age emporium Mysteries , sees World Party as the band of the moment and Wallinger as some kind of leader . |
| 24 | We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people . |
| 25 | The Wolfqueen acting as some kind of lodestar ? |
| 26 | The dancers engage in playful sport , dressed in simple turtle-coloured costumes , while Wagoner stands at the back as some kind of pondering philosopher figure . |
| 27 | When the working people in this country — whose only national newspaper , USA Today , reduces all its non-cold war international news to an eighth-of-a-page column called ‘ Elsewhere in the world ’ — begin to discuss the issues of international capitalist exploitation , it 's not surprising that the media portray the strike as some petty industrial dispute in the backwoods of the Appalachians . |
| 28 | Proposals to limit the sovereignty of parliament tend to centre on the introduction of a written constitution with judicial review and the entrenchment of a Bill of Rights as some kind of " higher " law beyond easy parliamentary repeal . |
| 29 | Labour tend to regard the health service as some enormous trade union . |
| 30 | Bednota was read very rarely in the villages and hardly ever subscribed to , because , as the peasants themselves recounted , it never printed real peasant articles but presented the countryside as some kind of fairyland . |