Example sentences of "[verb] as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | James broke with the SWP following the protracted debate on the question of whether or not the Soviet Union could be defended as a workers ' state . |
| 32 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 33 | To count as a banker 's acceptance a bank must add its own credit to that of the drawer by adding its name to the bill or ‘ endorsing ’ it . |
| 34 | Simon worked as a tailor 's presser , not a highly-paid job . |
| 35 | And Japanese fishermen would pay huge sums for a tortoiseshell tom , to keep as a ship 's cat , for it was thought it would protect the crew from the ghosts of their ancestors and the vessel itself from storms . |
| 36 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 37 | The Republic of Benin ( known as a People 's Republic until February 1990 ) achieved full independence from France in 1960 . |
| 38 | Thus is politics defined as a man 's world . |
| 39 | Were you train er trained as a children 's nurse ? |
| 40 | The library doubles as a gentleman 's room , or , failing that ( for Kerr remarks elsewhere that ‘ the ladies are not exactly excluded ’ from it ) , they are sure to have the billiard-room to themselves , while the young of the sex may ‘ do as they like ’ in the odd room . |
| 41 | The other , at Ashton , is the second-century strip building with a wide entrance , which has been identified as a blacksmith 's shop and contained five identifiable furnaces , a stone-lined quenching tank and numerous tools and completed metal objects . |
| 42 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 43 | The first was a Carol Pearson , of Muswell Hill , interesting to him because she had worked as a hairdresser 's improver at a shop in Eastcheap . |
| 44 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 45 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 46 | ‘ Well , you 're about as easy to locate as a politician 's honour . |
| 47 | Orange juice is to be pitched as a sportsman 's drink in a new marketing strategy to be adopted by the Florida Citrus Commission . |
| 48 | Lily 's hand fluttered negatively in her own and a harrowed smile , fleeting as a wind 's breath , stirred her lips and then they stretched back again into a tense , bloodless rictus . |
| 49 | I practise as a ship 's doctor . |
| 50 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 51 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 52 | A POLL tax write-off row has flared as a council 's shortfall heads for £27m . |
| 53 | Then as soon as her grandfather had died , she was sent out to earn as a butcher 's shop girl . |
| 54 | A businessman called Greville Wynne was asked to act as a freelance MI6 contact and for the next two years Penkovsky provided an incredible wealth of intimate detail about the Russians ' innermost plans including the period of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis . |
| 55 | The Anzac Captain , drunk as a fiddler 's bitch , fumbled for their newly-opened magnum of champagne , and shook the bottle . |
| 56 | He looks offended when I tell him he is perceived as a man 's man . |
| 57 | The Causey Mounth dates back to the 12th century , when it was first established as a drover 's road . |
| 58 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 59 | If , however , it were marketed as a child 's toy or the blade were such that when used to peel potatoes it disintegrated into splinters , then it would not be as safe as people generally were entitled to expect . |
| 60 | After three years working as a photographer 's assistant , Jason decided to get out of the ‘ rat race ’ and joined ecologically-minded art group Reactivart . |