Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 2 | Although cholesterol has come to be regarded as some sort of evil , a certain amount is actually essential for some aspects of physical health such as repairing lining membranes and the manufacture of sex hormones . |
| 3 | First , the 1945 election would be regarded as some kind of high point in terms of the programme choice offered to the electorate by the Labour and Conservative Parties : Labour was out to create a new socialist Britain whilst the Conservatives were still rooted in the Old Toryism of empire and unregulated capitalism . |
| 4 | The distinction between public bodies and voluntary agencies will be blurred , and the independence of action of voluntary bodies will be hampered as some of their resources and energies are absorbed in winning and fulfilling local authority contracts . |
| 5 | The nature of these changes , then , can be seen as some confirmation that the trends identified by Dearlove were genuine enough , but that working them through has taken much longer to achieve and involved much more upheaval than his initial analysis would have suggested . |
| 6 | The world must wait however to discover whether Kylie will be cast as some lovelorn , tragic Juliet to Jason 's Romeo or whether her musical will , in the mould of The Delinquents , be a rock and roll high school blockbuster , like Grease , the movie she admits she has loved since her Melbourne childhood . |
| 7 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 8 | Paul Reed Smith guitars are acknowledged as some of the finest produced anywhere today , and Guitarist 's Guitar Of The Year will be a classic ! |
| 9 | He disclosed the terms of the American offer , he left no doubt that they were in his opinion the best that could be obtained and should be accepted , and he rounded things off with what were interpreted as some highly uncomplimentary remarks about the quality of the Congressional opinion which had to be accommodated . |
| 10 | The big dealers are really being hit as some have been under investigation for almost a year and have had their passports confiscated . |
| 11 | In what was seen as some of the most important legislation in the country 's history , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed four decrees on Sept. 23 which endorsed an agreement reached between the government and Indian leaders the previous day . |
| 12 | Turnout was estimated as some 60 per cent in the elections , the first to be held under a new electoral law [ see pp. 37274 ; 37707 ] and using a new voter roll which increased the total electorate to some 36,000,000 eligible voters . |