Example sentences of "[verb] as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The managing director of one of the biggest of such organisations attached to this place is registered as a Member 's secretary or research assistant . |
| 2 | ‘ Cool as a nun 's kiss . |
| 3 | limp as a lobster 's claw , |
| 4 | She lived as a soldier 's wife might . |
| 5 | Unlike France , where lamb is still , in spite of its easy availability , regarded as a prince 's dish , the Germans think of it as something else . |
| 6 | The field of pictorial and explicit pornography is generally regarded as a man 's province . |
| 7 | It is also regarded as a men 's club and its members all possess comfortable rooms . |
| 8 | But , having been blessed with long , slender legs and what Paul described as a model-girl 's figure , she was used to being stared at , so she walked past them with her normal slightly coltish grace , her composure intact . |
| 9 | For his part , he seems to have enjoyed Cornwall , which he described as a walker 's paradise and ‘ … romantic to a degree ’ , though he confessed he would not like to live in it . |
| 10 | SECURITY chiefs and the SAS last night lashed a new book they described as a bomber 's guide to Buckingham Palace . |
| 11 | Blanche winced as a cameraman 's flash exploded in front of her . |
| 12 | ‘ Dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) but does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure ( Section 8 ) . |
| 13 | Note that ‘ dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) but does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure . |
| 14 | ‘ Dwelling ’ means any structure or part of a structure occupied as a person 's home or as other living accommodation ( whether the occupation is separate or shared with others ) and does not include any part not so occupied , and for this purpose ‘ structure ’ includes a tent , caravan , vehicle , vessel or other temporary or movable structure . ’ |
| 15 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 16 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 17 | As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk . |
| 18 | 2912 built in 1942 was built as a Directors ' Saloon for the LMSR and seconded for Royal Train duty after nationalisation . |
| 19 | Originally built as a merchant 's house the Leeuwenbrug is very well appointed throughout from the cosy breakfast room , bar and lounge to the exquisitely decorated bedrooms all with private bathroom , television , telephone and hairdryer . |
| 20 | I can only remember listening as a child 's body was carried down the stairs of my husband 's house , and the way the moon came into my kitchen as I listened . |
| 21 | Because of the nature of the furnishings in a dining room ( a large , flat surface , empty walls ) and because it is needed to serve its purpose only at regular , specified times during the day ( meal times ) , it is an ideal room to serve as a collector 's library . |
| 22 | Rosie Leventon 's Copper Floor involves 320 textured copper briquettes which could be seen as a woman 's reappropriation of Carl Andre 's Bricks . |
| 23 | Her last film ‘ RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN ’ ( 1964 ) whose commercial and critical failure ended her career , can be seen as a woman 's reply to the eulogies of the working class male celebrated by John Osbourne and his like , and it does so by poking fun at the ideology of the male and his crude sexism . |
| 24 | Similar reactions were reported throughout Africa , where Mandela was already seen as a people 's hero at the time of his imprisonment in 1962 . |
| 25 | This chamber is equipped as a scribe 's workroom , and is inhabited by the Ghost of old Stanislav Goethe , a half-Kislevite ( on his mother 's side ) , half-Ostlander scholar . |
| 26 | Now that two of you are married and a couple of you are starting families , does the band work as a lads ' escape ? |
| 27 | However , if the property where your business operates is also used as a person 's home , only the business element will be taken into account when it is revalued . |
| 28 | If there is spare accommodation available during the school day then turning some space over to use as a parents ' room is well worth while . |
| 29 | This is very much what this forum and the Plan of Action series is about : to look at some of the problems we are facing as a women 's movement and to evaluate our practice . |
| 30 | AFTER four decades of nuclear build-up , the 1990s began as a disarmer 's dream come true . |