Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 2 | His expertise as a children 's bookseller was highly valued by his colleagues , and he made a great contribution over a number of years to the work of the BA 's Children 's Executive , as a member and , more recently , as a vice-chairman . |
| 3 | ‘ I have earned a comfortable living from Party Planners but I lost the bulk of my money as a Lloyd 's Name , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Roles began his career by serving his apprenticeship as a photographer 's assistant after leaving school , but then transferred to an education in sculpture and painting . |
| 5 | At the time of the trial , Hegan was living in Coatbridge and earning a pittance as a Butlin 's Redcoat and Munro was living in Australia . |
| 6 | The winning entry came from Dr and Mrs J.D. Sayers of Nottingham , who receive a copy of The National Trust Guide for correctly identifying the item in the photograph as an Overbeck 's Rejuvenator , patented in 1924 by the scientist Otto Overbeck . |
| 7 | Her requirements were few , and she earned a meagre living as an artist 's model , most notably for Auguste Rodin , whom she met in 1904 , and for whose unfinished monument to Whistler she posed . |
| 8 | With Minton 's help he obtained work at the Royal College as an artist 's model until he decided to return home where his future was secured for him through marriage and the management of a pub . |
| 9 | Erm th the net result of it the proposal stopped dead , are those who did not wish to transfer , meaning the pensioners , had an increased inflation percentage as a result er pensioner representatives have been appointed , widows have had a increased pension . |
| 10 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 11 | A public-school education led to a secretarial college where she suddenly rebelled , sought work as an artist 's model , entered Soho , quickly becoming an habituée and one of the stars in Muriel Belcher 's galère . |
| 12 | By the beginning of 1982 a team had been recruited to develop the BDA as a consumers ' organisation and pressure group with the primary aim of eliminating discrimination against deaf people and of improving their quality of life . |
| 13 | A. How about this team as a printer 's delight ? |
| 14 | One had a full-time secretarial job , one had a part-time factory job ( for four hours each morning ) , three did part-time cleaning jobs ( two in the evening , one in the morning ) and one housewife had a Saturday job as a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 15 | Her mother was willing to look after the baby , so she got a fulltime job as a teacher 's assistant in a mental home . |
| 16 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 17 | Harriet got a job as a dentist 's receptionist and lived on lentils and poached eggs in a hostel until the dentist asked her to marry him . |
| 18 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 19 | WITH a meaningless tournament offering a first prize of $2 million , tennis finally made the grade as a cuckoo 's nest this week . |
| 20 | And , because you 'd made a loss , you could , out of your taxed pension , introduce a couple of hundred pounds into the business as a capital in introduction , to keep the business running , and it would n't affect the profit figures at all . |
| 21 | This , as he writes about the brevity of human life , he is moved to exclaim , ‘ So I have seen a rose newly sprung from the clefts of its hood , and at first it was fair as the morning and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb 's fleece ’ , and he continues to describe its life until ‘ it bowed the head and broke its stalk and at night having lost some of its leaves , and all its beauty , it fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces ’ . |
| 22 | Outside was a lawn , clipped trim as a general 's moustache , but browning in patches and along the edge as though the general were a heavy smoker . |
| 23 | I remember watching Ian 's first match for Border as a Queen 's College schoolboy . |
| 24 | A date stone , 1784 , is on the adjoining bakehouse , which later in life saw service as a blacksmith 's shop . |
| 25 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 26 | ‘ Red as a baboon 's bum . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Lance-Corporal John Shaw ( 1789–1815 ) , a prize-fighter whose magnificent physique caused him to be much in demand as an artist 's model . |
| 29 | In the case of Re Pogue , the court declined to make the patient 's refusal based on her belief as a Jehovah 's Witness a basis for declaring her incompetent to decide for herself . |
| 30 | It is reserved for use as a children 's play area . |