Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] as a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I usually do n't mention the fact that I once trained as a social worker . |
| 2 | So I quickly dressed as a young man and followed you home to Baker Street . |
| 3 | I never believed as a Tory MP to be in a situation where I would condemn the actions of a Tory Government in a matter of this kind . ’ |
| 4 | Further down the street can be found one of the only blacksmiths and farriers in the area , a very busy place , which also doubles as a local meeting place . |
| 5 | He boasts all the trappings of a billionaire : the 385-foot yacht which also acts as a roving business headquarters ; the private jets ; a string of racehorses ; gold supposedly held in the form of bars ; the twenty-mile-square holiday island of Spetsopoula , off Athens ; the shipping fleet on which his fortune is based ; a string of trophy wives and mistresses topped only be the late Aristotle Onassis ; and prime investment property around the world . |
| 6 | The opening of Leçon de choses , significantly entitled ‘ Générique ’ , can almost be said to provide a poetics of the autonomous , self-referential text , such is the emphasis upon the creative power of words : a description is composed which will generate the text as a whole and which also acts as a self-reflexive commentary on this process . |
| 7 | If you have a sound card , better quality sound output is available by using the perform function which also acts as a mini-recording studio , allowing you to record direct from the computer keyboard . |
| 8 | She spent seven years working for Harper 's Bazaar as a fashion illustrator , also producing book illustrations , and did not really begin to concentrate on painting until during the war , whilst living near Regent 's Park which inspired the spiky pastoralism which often served as a poignant background to her paintings of children . |
| 9 | The two most likely services to trigger a process of decline are the post office , which often acts as a multiple service facility ( Taylor and Emerson , 1981 ) , and the primary school , which is not only a central feature of the community but also a vital ingredient in retaining a young and active population ( Jones , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | Or is a study of democracy bound to be a study of the diverse meanings given to a term which simply acts as a linguistic umbrella for them all ? |
| 11 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 12 | Occasionally situation Z may inspire the creation of a wholly new principle , which then serves as a possible precedent for the future . |
| 13 | She only swallows as a special treat if I 've been really good or something . |
| 14 | Margaret Wynne Nevinson , an active feminist , who was a member of a school management committee for twenty-five years and who also served as a Poor Law Guardian , found her fellow male Guardians actively hostile . |
| 15 | Also present was Mrs. Blair , mother of Eric Blair ( 1903–1950 ) , alias George Orwell , who also played as a junior , and whose father , a golfer of considerable skill , became Club Secretary in 1912 . |
| 16 | Ezra was a cobbler who also acted as a local estate agent , although in those days he would n't have recognised the term . |
| 17 | Edo itself also acted as a major centre of commercial activity . |
| 18 | Other British artists currently on in New York include James Nares ( who probably qualifies as a New Yorker by now , having lived here for the past fifteen years ) at Kasmin ; Tony Bevan , a figurative painter who often does self-portraits at Louver ( both shows until 20 March ) ; and Eric Snell , a Londoner , at Esman ( until 27 March ) . |
| 19 | A nature spirit who often appears as a wild boar or a old crone ( Cailleach Bheur , meaning ‘ old woman ’ ) . |
| 20 | Mr Wareing , who recently retired as a chief executive of Speke Training and Education Centre , was Merseyside Citizen of the Year in 1989/90 . |
| 21 | By 1920 , 7 million workers had gained an average six and a half hour reduction in the working week — the equivalent , almost , of what we now see as a full day 's work . |
| 22 | Pocock 's method of ‘ shifting the belly band ’ or adjusting the bridle link position was not what we currently accept as a 2-line system.That described by J.Woodbridge Davis in Aeronautics of August 1894 for his method of steering a life-saving device undoubtedly was a progenitor of what we use today . |
| 23 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 24 | The telson is present in the embryos of certain insects ( Fig. 41 ) , but it rarely persists as a discrete region ; it is evident , however , in the Protura , while traces are found in other insects . |
| 25 | So desperate has the tribe 's situation become that the government Indian foundation FUNAI is attempting to contact all the remaining uncontacted Awa , an action it only takes as a last resort . |
| 26 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 27 | Not the work , which was back-breaking and tedious — he specialized in bolting on bumpers and screwing down steering wheels on trucks — but the mostly Asian workforce whose respect and confidence he soon won as a shop-floor activist . |
| 28 | However , because this is a stock phrase , it usually occurs as a fixed pattern . |
| 29 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 30 | This emerges clearly in its tortuous attempt to grapple with what it still regarded as a fundamental difference between ‘ Asian ’ and ‘ West Indian ’ patterns of educational performance . |