Example sentences of "[indef pn] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many months a nurse had been taking care of Mary , described by everyone as a gentle , retiring person . |
| 2 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 4 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 5 | treat everyone as a temporary language helper . |
| 6 | But the brain and questions of its function , and the part ‘ memory ’ ( and I put it in quotes ) or rather , a consideration of memory , can play in furthering our understanding of this function , belongs of course to everyone as a human being , from the stupidest person who can not read or write to the top people in biochemical research . |
| 7 | A tongue that left people in no doubt of their responsibilities but delivered in impeccable style , seen by everyone as a proper ‘ gent ’ . |
| 8 | It is as if Sukenick were putting into practice the principles of what he has called the ‘ architectonic novel ’ which ( and he cites Raymond Federman 's Double or Nothing as a prime example ) works like a jigsaw puzzle : ‘ the picture is filled out but there is no sense of development involved ’ ( Federman 1975 : 38 ) . |
| 9 | So while interpreters working from spoken English to sign language are called upon to work for nothing as a service to these normal , intelligent ‘ disabled ’ people , those in the foreign spoken language interpretive role , where language users are equal , may rise to occupy one of the highest status roles in diplomacy , and correspondingly command high financial rewards . |
| 10 | Every man jack has to work ten days each year for nothing as a kind of tax . |
| 11 | He 'd need someone as a safety valve — you fit the bill . ’ |
| 12 | I mean there 's , there 's the practical side of actually having , I mean well there 's various aspects of it you could have someone as a figurehead |
| 13 | I am always surprised by the fact that this device of photographing someone as a representative of a profession rather than as an individual . |
| 14 | Likewise , the circumlocution necessary to avoid describing someone as a ‘ Jekyll-and-Hyde character ’ is a considerable argument in favour of the cliche . |
| 15 | This suggests that with to the infinitive 's event is conceived as something which is known and attributed to someone as a result of experience . |
| 16 | Two other types of bond are relationships organised around investments in the welfare of another ( ordinarily one 's own children ) ; and relationships organised around an acceptance of someone as a valid source of support and guidance — the boss at work , the general practitioner perhaps , or the vicar ( Weiss , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention . |
| 18 | I believe that he is second to none as a theoretician , but coaching requires much more than that . |
| 19 | The quiet discursive approach actually delivers the goods in terms of reforming this nation and increasing our prosperity more effectively than carrying on everything as a flat-out argument . |
| 20 | ‘ Why do n't we leave everything as a nice quiet lot of nothingness ? ’ |
| 21 | Well , I think it 's like everything else , I think that er , with , with Lawrence being off they 're just sort of meeting everything as a crisis and getting , getting |
| 22 | That feat , and just two single deliveries , one as a bowler , one as a bat , have already put Hemmings in the all-time , gold-leafed parchment scrolls . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the duty to uphold and support just institutions is , in some respects , wider than the duty which devolves on one as a result of the fact that someone has legitimate authority over one , in three different ways . |
| 24 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 25 | This so enraged their mother Dilga that she drowned all the Cat-people in a river of milk and reincarnated her sons , one as a giant water-snake , the other as a placid white cloud . |
| 26 | Each mutually supports the other one as a compendium of conceptual and communicative resource . |
| 27 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 28 | If you are to get the maximum enjoyment from growing roses , just as much care is needed in choosing one as a hundred , and it is to selecting what to grow — and where to buy — that we now turn . |
| 29 | Erm er I 'll try to deal with the erm it 's it 's very very difficult to separate these topics out and and teach that one as a topic in , in a sense . |
| 30 | She raced around the driveway on her blue tricycle , took her dolls for walks in her pram — she always asked for a new one as a birthday present — and helped to dress her smaller brother . |