Example sentences of "as something [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place . |
| 2 | The second element is the picture of serious inquiry as optional , and as something from the results of which the inquirer is distanced . |
| 3 | Certainly he saw the Pinkie campaign not only as a military endeavour , but as something in the nature of a religious crusade ; Scotland would be snatched not just from alliance with France , but from the yoke of Rome . |
| 4 | The paper goes on to say that since ‘ there is an assumption in our society that the blood tie or relationship with the parent is the ideal , then any alternative is seen as a failure rather than as something in the child 's best interest ’ . |
| 5 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |