Example sentences of "as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A brief greatness was now conferred on the place , when the Popes found it an island refuge in their struggle against the Empire : Count Pierre of Melgueil bestowed the county and bishopric on SS Peter and Paul and Pop Gregory VII in 1085 , Pope Urban II graciously granted it back as a fief for a mere annual ounce of gold , and in 1096 , on a visit , astonishingly declared the church ‘ second after that of Rome ’ , with arms of the two |
| 2 | possibly Count Raymond offered to do homage to Henry and to hold Toulouse as a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 3 | For Raymond , whose county had been held as a fief of Aquitaine since 1173 , the replacement of Richard by his elder brother held out the prospect of release from a galling sense of subordination . |
| 4 | Since 1213 when King John tactically surrendered the kingdom to Pope Innocent III and received it back as a fief held of the papacy , the English crown had owed the pope an annual tribute of a thousand marks ( £666 6/ 8d ) . |
| 5 | Innocent asserted his paternal protection of Frederick and the position of Sicily as a fief of the papacy . |
| 6 | The Chinese market for it already existed , and the Company also found a new market for it in England , where it was used as a narcotic and as a pain-killer , for which it was much more satisfactory than the only available alternative , alcohol . |
| 7 | Studies have showed that tecnazene appears to act as a narcotic on fish , causing disorientation and lethargy . |
| 8 | Other grants recently given to firms include : — Barry Chow , Wilson Street , £14,880 to help modify empty building for take-away restaurant , with up to ten jobs created ; — Ruby Tuesday , Parliament Road , £11,804 to help create extra space for planned business expansion by fashion accessories firm , with five additional jobs planned ; — S Upex and Son , North Ormesby Road , £7,690 to help improve premises ; — Tyne Tees Cash-and-Carry , Cargo Fleet Lane , £20,975 to help reconstruction of access road and security fencing ; — A Razzaq , Linthorpe Road , £6,667 to help refurbish property used as a take-away restaurant ; — Laing Employment Training Organisation , Parliament Road , £1,908 to help with site security at its base in the old Cleveland Transit bus depot ; — Fletcher Investment Consultants , Wilson Street , £1,108 towards painting and cleaning outside of premises . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I can imagine no greater handicap upon any universal creed than that the Son of God should come upon earth as a Jew and His Church be left to the tender mercies of the Wops . ’ |
| 11 | To deal with the enemy as a Jew has a special significance . |
| 12 | It was here in Caesarea that Peter had his memorable lesson not to call any man ‘ unclean ’ — which , as a Jew , he would instinctively have done to all Gentiles . |
| 13 | As a Jew , he would never penetrate the very inner circles of the City-but , also as a Jew , he knew more European bankers and understood their ways better than any other London bank of his size . |
| 14 | As a Jew , he would never penetrate the very inner circles of the City-but , also as a Jew , he knew more European bankers and understood their ways better than any other London bank of his size . |
| 15 | But this low-born de Burgh , this double man despite himself , even while he leaned back greedily , hankering after lands with the ambition of the landless , even while he envied the de Blundevilles and the Marshalls and composed about himself a synthetic replica of their hereditary splendour , yet saw England by glimpses as Isambard saw it , an empire not decomposing and falling to insecure tatters like the Emperor 's sprawling hold , but compact as a clenched fist , solvent as a Jew 's treasury and self-sufficient as a well-run manor , a power not hemmed in but completed and transmitted by the sea . |
| 16 | Henderson made his reputation as a spokesman for the working classes of Belfast against the economic policies of the Unionist governments of the 1930s . |
| 17 | He praised the US Environmental Protection Agency — ‘ an independent body of scientists who undertake research and research evaluation as a service to government ( but not as a spokesman for government ) . |
| 18 | As a spokesman for the UK surfing community , Chris Hines is increasingly well-informed , so much so that he is now a worthy opposition in the corridors of power . |
| 19 | This was the first recorded occasion on which one member of the commons was chosen to act as a spokesman for them all . |
| 20 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 21 | He was among the politically active officers of 1647–9 , serving on the small standing committee to which Sir Thomas Fairfax ( later third Baron Fairfax of Cameron , q.v. ) handed over control of issuing all commissions , and acting as a spokesman for the high command in their successive dealings with the Parliament , the king , and the radicals in the army itself ( the Agitators and their Leveller allies ) . |
| 22 | His continued appearance on the public platform and his considerable oratory skills gave Williams the opportunity to enhance his growing reputation as a spokesman for the ‘ common man ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ But I 'm willing to act as a spokesman if you feel one is needed . ’ |
| 24 | As a spokesman for the US State Department declared at an American chiefs of mission meeting in London in September 1957 : " The United States — United Kingdom relationship is at the core of the NATO alliance and is an important element in SEATO and the Baghdad Pact . " |
| 25 | The results were greeted with some scepticism by Donnie Munro , lead singer of the rock group Runrig , rector of Edinburgh University and regarded by many young Scots as a spokesman . |
| 26 | Mr Kewley is acting as a spokesman for the family . |
| 27 | As a member of the Territorial Army Reserve he held the rank of Lt Colonel and served a period as a co of the OTC . |
| 28 | He replied that he held his power in Italy by the same right of conquest established by Charlemagne and Otto , he had come , he said , ‘ not to receive as a suppliant the transient favours of an unruly people , but as a prince resolved to claim , if necessary by force of arms , the inheritance of his forebears ’ . |
| 29 | As a prince , you understand , one does not enjoy freedom in the sense that one of more humble origin may enjoy freedom . |
| 30 | ‘ As a Prince of Tara , you are , after all , entitled to be told , but as a Prince of Tara , you must promise , solemnly and absolutely , that you will never , no matter the circumstances , reveal what I am about to tell you . ’ |