Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [vb pp] as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has served as a student counsellor with the Education and Training Department and as deputy director of practice regulation she played a major role in setting up the new regulations for financial services business and audit . |
| 2 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 3 | Over the last seven years she has worked as a manager in the retail industry in Oxford . |
| 4 | She has worked as a freelance fabric designer in New York , specialising in the production of hand painted silks . |
| 5 | She has acted as a consultant to both the International Tennis Federation and the South American Tennis Confederation and was instrumental in helping to develop women 's tennis throughout Latin America before taking on the role of spokesperson for Tennis Interlink . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , the ethos of competitive assessment often leads the student who has failed on a few tasks ( e.g. learned more slowly than other people ) to feel that he/she has failed as a person . |
| 7 | Whereas Haslam has found that a detached outside perspective has proved to be valuable in several of the companies he has served as a board member , his early intimate knowledge of the coal industry was equally beneficial when he was asked to become chairman of British Coal , bringing his career full circle . |
| 8 | In the end he realizes that the only way truly to understand his father is to become him ; he presents the evidence he has collected as a reconstruction of his father 's actions , thought processes , and emotions . |
| 9 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 10 | STEVE BAINES proudly holds up a medal he won as a player — and one he has collected as a referee . |
| 11 | MICHAEL Fallon yesterday denied accusations he has failed as a Government minister to provide decent schools in his constituency . |
| 12 | On the one hand he can support his understanding of the institutional expectations by simply repeating those inculcated practices he has learned as a neophyte from the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , which are interminably repeated ‘ at the charge room desk ’ or ‘ taken on at Nellie 's knee ’ . |
| 13 | This workbook was further developed to become the Basic Skills Workbook , in 1974 , and it has served as a model for many library workbooks throughout the world . |
| 14 | On the one hand it has appeared as a focus for resistance . |
| 15 | To mix the metaphor , Western trade has been a sedative , not a tonic ; it has acted as a brake on reform , not a stimulant . |
| 16 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 17 | Ray Fell , chairman of the Leeds United Supporters ' Club said : ‘ It has come as a kick in the stomach . ’ |
| 18 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 19 | If it has died as a result of dog fighting then immediate action will be taken to stamp this odious business out straight away . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 21 | The breed was initially dual-purpose , whatever its colour , but for the most part ceded its milking role to the neighbouring Ayrshire ; it has continued as a beef breed but has never been intensively developed for that role . |