Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was here as a 10-year-old when we had a record crowd of 75,000 for the Cup tie against Aston Villa in 1938 , ’ he said . |
| 2 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 3 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 4 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |
| 5 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 6 | Sara recalls , ‘ She was there as a mother . |
| 7 | It was not that they were there as a punishment , just that the cellar was their living room ( a common arrangement in the back-to-backs of Bradford where most Asian families live ) . |
| 8 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 9 | It was probably as a result of Hall 's ‘ conclave ’ that , ‘ long before the programme came out ’ , he retired from active engagements to design suitable elements for a public building . |
| 10 | It was probably as a result of this that the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury was impelled to describe his manners as being ‘ thus polished from the rust of Scottish barbarity ’ . |
| 11 | It was probably as a result of Arab contacts that pearl fisheries were opened up on the coast of East Africa . |
| 12 | At the G7 Heads of Government meeting , my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister obtained the personal commitment of the round before the end of the year and it was partly as a result of that that the valuable meeting took place between President Bush and Mr. Lubbers , on behalf of the Community , which I hope has moved matters towards a conclusion . |
| 13 | When ‘ English ’ first came on the scene in the nineteenth century , it was precisely as a form of Cultural Studies , involving not only language and literature , but history , geography , philosophy , and so on , requiring the first professors of the subject to be polymaths . |
| 14 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 15 | Indeed , it was directly as a consequence of this that the White Paper was so general in approach and so nebulous on crucial issues . |
| 16 | But it was always as a unity that Ramsay approached a composition . |
| 17 | If it ever did , it was always as a part which was apart , separate , a ‘ precious stone set in the silver sea . |
| 18 | In fact , it was only as a consequence of this earlier work of literary , linguistic , and historical categorizing that it became possible for a sense of national and vernacular " ancestry " to challenge the cultural and educational rule of the classical languages and literatures . |
| 19 | Mister was associated with the theatre from its very beginning in 1914 when , on the opening night , he was there as a pageboy , until his retirement in 1974 . |