Example sentences of "almost as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the placing , for example , they threw a huge party for the professional advisers downstairs at a local Chinese restaurant , and in early 1987 , almost as a thank-you , they took the audit manager and me out to Chicago to meet the team there . |
| 2 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With Tyson gone and Tucker 's prominence chequered in the continuing row over who Lewis should fight first , King has no charismatic heavyweight to bring in big money so sees Chavez as his passport into Mexico , where the fighter is viewed almost as a God and where vast live gates and previously untapped pay-per-view television income looms large . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | These elections were presented almost as a referendum on the performance of the government , and in such an atmosphere most councils must have felt confident that , for this year at least , they would avoid any adverse local electoral reaction to their fiscal policies . |
| 9 | Through his determination and vitality Browning led Elizabeth Barrett from the sick-room in which she languished almost as a prisoner and ‘ carried her into the light and sunshine ’ , inspiring her finest poems and being inspired in turn to write his greatest works . |
| 10 | But anyway , he he died almost as a prisoner at er at towards the end of er o er er of the Second World War . |
| 11 | It comes almost as a relief to find Cortot 's Debussy and Ravel less distinguished . |
| 12 | Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave . |
| 13 | Also it was n't exactly pleasant right here , with a November sharpness in the air that had arrived almost as a response to the Christmas lights and store displays that were just about everywhere now . |
| 14 | It came almost as a shock to realize that her night had been peaceful — there had been no dreams , no nightmares , and the bottle by her bed remained untouched . |
| 15 | And Jenny revealed that almost as a compensation for having to choose between an important film part and the West End , a new movie is being written for her . |
| 16 | Many locals see him almost as a hero . |
| 17 | A gentle walk — which can act almost as a warm-down — will help to clear the debris from your legs and will aid recovery . |
| 18 | So she worked almost as a nurse ? |
| 19 | The need to halt fascism began to be seen almost as a life and death matter . |
| 20 | Nature seems to portend no danger and is there to be utilised by Marlowe and his lover almost as a playground . |
| 21 | The link with Dean 's Rebel was deliberate , so that it could be seen almost as a sequel . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters . |
| 24 | The units are small enough to fill up the space almost as a liquid would fill it . |
| 25 | Almost as a reflex , he smiled grimly to himself . |
| 26 | Equally the press , almost as a whole , had decided that it liked the girl . |
| 27 | Sometimes women are depicted almost as a caricature of a male stereotype of themselves — they are servile , weak , powerless etc . |
| 28 | And who was Kraus 's great friend in Berlin , who did he regard almost as a son ? |
| 29 | Idealistic and romantic , Will Simpson responded to the beauty of nature almost as a duty and in strong contrast to his wife who found that it was always too cold and complained that the wind ruined her hair the moment she stepped out of the garden gate . |
| 30 | West Indian cricket has been strong for so long principally because it is looked upon almost as a religion in the Caribbean . |