Example sentences of "there as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to help there as a boy . |
| 2 | I was neither Jew nor English nor white , or even a proper Indian or a proper Pakistani ; but my travels through Europe and stay in the USA and my near acceptance there as a living entity capable of suffering pain and enjoying pleasure had temporarily given me a sort of quasi-human status , further aggravated by those willing to be my sexual partners ; I had become spoilt and pampered . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The report spells out a series of options , and leans towards a plan which would put men on the Moon in 2001 to build a base there as a springboard for the Martian expedition 10 years later . |
| 5 | While for boys the ‘ justice ’ rather than the ‘ welfare ’ model prevails , between 70 and 80 per cent of girls in care in this country are there as a result of parents or step-parents calling in the social services because they feel their daughters to be ‘ beyond parental control ’ or ‘ morally at risk ’ . |
| 6 | But it does state that ‘ immediately after Soviet power had been restored there as a result of complicated processes in international and internal life ’ abuses of power and human rights violations were committed . |
| 7 | She lit a candle over there as a silent prayer for her estranged husband and went home . |
| 8 | ‘ Take your son , your only son , whom you love , Isaac , and go to the land of Moriah , and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I shall tell you . ’ |
| 9 | In effect , the first dog has always been there as a crutch to rely upon . |
| 10 | Like Jos , her brother had worked there as a boy . |
| 11 | ‘ I think the cairn was placed there as a landmark to guide Bronze Age pilgrims to the rings of stone , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to play there as a boy , and people told us the tunnels went all the way to Cuchulain 's castle . |
| 13 | But if they do n't — well , they are there as a record . |
| 14 | Leading a band of forty-five lodges up the Valley of Winding Waters in the summer of 1875 , Joseph found two companies of cavalry under Captain Whipple stationed there as a peace-keeping force . |
| 15 | He had studied psychology at QUB from 1961 and made a reputation there as a debater , winning the Orator of the Year award in 1963 . |
| 16 | Pat Riley , large , square and solid , the sergeant-major who ruled by tact , was actually an American citizen , having been taken there as a child . |
| 17 | She remembers Guildford with affection — since she trained there as a young actress in the 1950s . |
| 18 | However , Bukharin 's ideas were not formed solely by what was currently happening in Soviet Russia ; rather he viewed what was happening there as a part of a much larger upheaval on a world scale . |
| 19 | Almost immediately they felt the vibration in the deck , a steady throbbing that was there as a constant background between the ringing blows of the storm . |
| 20 | The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years . |
| 21 | Nigel Maynard , son of the Malta A.O.C. The unit now moved to Alexandria , although a small servicing detachment was to be left at Kalafrana for several more weeks in order that Sunderlands might land there as a forward base . |
| 22 | On the 1986 West Indies tour , when he was just there as a batsman , we had one particular discussion with Bob Willis at a beach bar in Antigua . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | An American flees to Amsterdam , depicting his life there as a chain of sadism and serial killing . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that as many as 10% of old people admitted to hospital are there as a direct result of drugs prescribed by their GP ( Age Concern , 1977 ) , and Phillipson ( 1982 ) suggests that much over-prescription of drugs is a conscious attempt to control the medical demands on the health service by older people . |
| 26 | I 'm fairly sure that there will be someone on duty there as a matter of course but I 'll check . ’ |
| 27 | In 1681 King Charles II visited Winchester to inspect progress on a palace which Wren was building for him there as a base for hawking and hunting in the Hampshire hills and forests . |
| 28 | The diagram shape is there as a visual aid for the knitter to see the ultimate shape of the garment section being knitted . |
| 29 | Elsewhere in this issue , Isabel Wolff reports on the inspiring life of Rigoberta Menchu , a indefatigable defender of human rights of indigenous people in Central America ; Ian Williams describes his experience in Somalia while working there as a nurse during the worst of the 1992 famine ; and we publish an extract from The Princess , an anonymous account of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia . |
| 30 | It is more likely that the white ear spots are there as a signal to cubs following their dam in thick jungle . |