Example sentences of "as some " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It can only come in as some kind of ‘ emergent property ’ of all these causal interactions . |
| 2 | ‘ Please do n't portray me as some flashy Vegas gambler who 's plopping into the White House in Italian suits and expensive watches , ’ Mr Rogich told a reporter from The New York Times from his car phone . |
| 3 | So why not a proper highlights package on Saturday night , or non-live Sundays as some regions are already trying ? |
| 4 | We wrapped camouflage squares round our heads and faces as some protection and jumped into the trench . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This , I suppose , must be regarded as some sort of progress . |
| 7 | By contrast , on the other side of the equator , there are societies , such as some of the traditional pre-colonial Southern African states which though they have pastoralism and agriculture , do not seem to have had slavery . |
| 8 | This has been represented as some kind of martyrdom on Lewis 's part ; and doubtless , like any long-term relationship , it called for reserves of patience and good humour on both sides . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Harold Cudmore , skippering the chartered 50-footer Heaven Can Wait , is poised to claim a race win for Britain as some consolation for the team . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It has been claimed that Margaret saw the tunnel as some sort of monument to her and her period of government . |
| 13 | Labour tend to regard the health service as some enormous trade union . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She could only look on Roirbak as some kind of doctor who would be dealing with her intimately shortly . |
| 16 | They perceive Euro Disney as undermining French values and Mickey — the French never use the rodent 's surname — as some sort of Trojan mouse of American cultural imperialism . |
| 17 | Equally important to guard against , on the Tory side , is the idea that Mr Major must now be regarded as some kind of superman . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the making of aquavitae certain plants were utilised as additives , such as some members of the Leguminosae or vetch family , , literally ‘ mice pease ’ and known simply as vetch , and or known as bitter vetch ( Lathyrus montanus ) . |
| 20 | The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based , but none the less make a significant contribution to the marine ecology : birds such as the puffins , gannets , boobies , auks , terns and penguins ; the pinniped carnivores — seals , sea-lions , fur seals , and walruses ; other carnivores — the sea-otter and the polar bear ; reptiles such as some marine crocodiles and the marine , herbivorous iguana of the Galapagos Islands . |
| 21 | They will in most cases lead to brain damage , or a range of specific physical abnormalities usually identified as some form of ‘ syndrome ’ . |
| 22 | The first commercial companies to follow suit were public utilities such as some railway and gas companies , which started pension schemes for their clerical staff from the 1840s onwards . |
| 23 | The family has occupied less and less of this house since the World Wars , every generation a little less — Christabel 's room was in the east wing that 's been closed since 1918 , except for use as some kind of a glory-hole . |
| 24 | Unlike the families of middleclass dropouts , skinhead families were generally supportive , helping with money and acting as some sort of barrier against school and the police . |
| 25 | Before this single , the rather distanced American rock press failed to probe deeply into the phenomenon of The Smiths and had constantly referred to them as some kind of wacko gay outfit , English eccentrics playing lightweight rock . |
| 26 | And this may be generalized , or taken as some kind of parable . |
| 27 | Too late for good , as some bruised tree ; |
| 28 | Pioneering entomologists undoubtedly saw Laboulbeniales quite frequently while examining insects , but mostly regarded these oddities as some sort of malformed exoskeletal growths . |
| 29 | By itself , it is easy to interpret this ability as some sort of mindless , automatic exercise in trigonometry . |
| 30 | JH : In your first book ( Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts of 1976 ) you expressed the view that all modern day performances of the Classical repertoire should be considered as some form of arrangement . |