Example sentences of "almost as a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was aware , too , that certain couples tend to acquire single men like Preston , or women for that matter , like pets , almost as a kind of catalyst for their own uneasy , brittle relationships . |
| 2 | Camus 's L'Etranger ( 1942 ) is also marred ( at least for Robbe-Grillet ) by the unwelcome intrusion of a ‘ metaphorical ’ vocabulary in the second part of the novel : in his landmark essay ‘ Nature , Humanisme , Tragédie ’ ( 1958 ) and in Le Miroir qui revient , Robbe-Grillet had condemned this unfortunate lapse from ‘ le degré zéro de l'écriture ’ almost as a kind of betrayal of modernism , and as deficient in phenomenological terms by establishing a complicity between man and the world . |
| 3 | For the whole of Jesus 's public ministry , Simon Peter is at his master 's side , almost as a kind of bodyguard — a function in keeping with his sobriquet of ‘ Rocky ’ or ‘ tough ’ . |
| 4 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |
| 5 | However , a devaluation of the domestic currency came to be regarded almost as a sign of failure by countries facing permanent imbalance , and so was avoided for as long as possible . |
| 6 | People are killed every day , almost as a matter of course in South Africa , largely as a result of the internecine tribal disputes . |
| 7 | A kind of casual cruelty abounds in which , almost as a matter of routine , teachers say to pupils , and pupils to teachers , things that are wounding or upsetting . |
| 8 | We assembled our rods in the shelter of the old boathouse on the south shore and I strode purposefully to the loch , almost as a matter of principal . |
| 9 | In a sense , from the point of view of the information given-birth , education , career , books written , pious foundations endowed many of the biographies are , mutatis mutandis , not unlike those in Who 's Who.a If the English reader of Who 's Who can flesh out the bare bones almost as a matter of instinct , however , to do the same for the Ottoman ulema is rendered almost impossible by time and cultural distance . |
| 10 | Walter Monckton , his legal adviser , seized the point , and on Saturday , 5 December , asked almost as a condition of Abdication , that a special bill should be introduced to make the decree immediately absolute , and thus remove the danger . |
| 11 | He channelled a great deal of effort into his group , almost as an act of revenge . |
| 12 | Even when a small office was given almost as an act of charity , there would usually be a political motive in the background . |
| 13 | In May 1950 the Assembly , almost as an act of desperation , sent a list of recommendations to the national parliaments , bypassing the Committee of Ministers . |