Example sentences of "[noun sg] as a [adj] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally Highlander would endeavour not to remove local community leaders from their home environment in favour of working at Highlander as a residential staff member , and in fact several staff operate within their own communities , several hundreds of miles from Highlander , commuting into the Center when necessary , ( Staff meetings , weekend-workshops etc . ) |
| 2 | LeBas , commenting on the problem posed by the need to support arguments in papers by reference to large sets of analytical geochemical data , mentions the BLDSC ‘ Supplementary Publication ’ programme as an intermediate data collection somewhere between the conventional journal and the large , national , source ( non-bibliographic ) databases . |
| 3 | It is not proposed to include such software in the current program , but rather to treat this instrument as an intelligent data gatherer and use mainframe facilities to assess the results . |
| 4 | Robins became senior staff nurse , the other staff nurses moved up one , and the senior student nurse in the A.R.R. Unit came back into the Hall as an acting staff nurse . |
| 5 | The Postcode/Enumeration District directory exists at the moment as a raw data file , with an online guide in another file ; eventually there will be some simple software . |
| 6 | In 1938 , again due for promotion but medically unfit , he took an appointment as a second-grade staff officer in the War Office to research on any subject he chose . |
| 7 | Like the bosses in the once merger-mad entertainment industry to the north , Televisa 's managers tout the company as an integrated media conglomerate , offering advertisers and performers exposure through a range of outlets around the Spanish-speaking world . |
| 8 | Lexington , Kentucky-based Lexmark International Inc says that operating profits more than doubled in its second year as an independent $2,000m-a-year company , but unhelpfully does n't provide any numbers : worldwide shipments of IBM personal printers made by what used to be the typewriter arm of IBM grew 20% and the typewriter and supplies businesses both substantially exceeded their financial targets , it says ; debt is now below $700m from the $1,150m in March 1991 , and this year 's portion of debt obligation has already been paid in advance . |
| 9 | Years later , I described this now-rare bird as a new species Lophura hatinhensis . |