Example sentences of "[verb] as a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 2 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 3 | The church council may very well wish to contend that the acquisition and disposal of the new site is a non-trading transaction , and that any resultant surplus should be regarded as a capital gain which , if applied for charitable purposes , would be exempt from CGT . |
| 4 | This optimum is not 100 per cent debt financing as equity is regarded as a safety cushion which will absorb any losses which might be incurred during the ordinary course of trading and/or liquidation . |
| 5 | Although Fleetwood Mac were a rock band , and you 're regarded as a rock guitarist whatever else you do , you 've always made ‘ left turns ’ along the way … |
| 6 | For example , if you have ambitions to work as a district nurse it may help to have worked in the care of elderly or disabled people . |
| 7 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |
| 8 | The research problem is large in scale and this particular project is seen as a pilot study which should open up further fruitful areas of analysis . |
| 9 | At the time of his election , Austen was seen as a party man who would be even more attentive to Unionist interests than Law had been . |
| 10 | Used as a revision book it can prompt and encourage some self-questioning but it is too brief to use as a teaching document . |
| 11 | Originally a triple-purpose breed , it is often used as a suckler cow which has excellent fertility and calves easily ( the pelvis is unusually wide ) , with enough milk for her fast-growing , early-maturing calf . |
| 12 | It is mainly used as a phosphate source which , as it also contains some lime , has an alkaline reaction . |
| 13 | Yet , it has been consistently used as a straw model which could easily be knocked down to deny the existence of centralized power centres in Japan . |
| 14 | The cursor is displayed as a cross hair which has two modes . |
| 15 | The defendant was employed as a sales representative who sold the service of renovating and repairing office furniture and commercial seating and the judge correctly decided that that must be the business which was referred to by the restraint of trade clause . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose as a holiday house it is a bit far from Sydney . ’ |
| 17 | The god of Creation in Aboriginal legend ; known as Yulunggu , he appears as a rainbow snake who arches himself across the sky early in the rainy season . |
| 18 | Bryan Adams has a tremendous knack of writing very catchy and memorable guitar parts , and although he 's not particularly known as a lead soloist his rhythm playing approach is well worth looking at . |
| 19 | Even where a household is categorized as a farming household there is a high probability that family members will be employed outside the farming sector and much of the household 's income will also be drawn from outside it . |
| 20 | This is defined as a goods vehicle which does not form part of a vehicle combination and has a relevant plated weight not exceeding 3500kg , or ( not having a plated weight ) has an unladen weight not exceeding 1525kg . |
| 21 | For the first period he took as a starting point his previously arrived figure of forty seven thousand five hundred pounds and as an end point a figure of fifty nine thousand four hundred and twenty one pounds ninety six pence , derived from Mrs . |
| 22 | Having retrained as a science teacher she is now at St. Mary 's R. C. High School in Hereford . |
| 23 | It occurred mainly in communities with poor diets and was eventually identified as a deficiency disease which could be promptly and completely cured by supplying adequate food . |
| 24 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 25 | Now I think as a management team we need to think about what our strategy , our tactics are gon na be with regard to this . |
| 26 | The building was originally constructed as a brick core which was then covered with thin slabs of marble tied to the brick by means of ferrous cramps . |
| 27 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 28 | The results are expressed as a relaxation modulus which is a function of the time of observation . |
| 29 | He is pinning the future of the company on the success of NeXTStep , saying that 90% of its sales effort will go towards marketing the software : ‘ customers will decide ’ whether NeXT continues as a hardware operation he said . |
| 30 | In the 1986 film Round Midnight he starred as a jazz musician who , like Gordon himself in the Sixties , sought refuge in Europe . |