Example sentences of "to work as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's learned a lot of skills and hopes to work as a gardener when he 's released . |
| 2 | The mini virus would then be genetically engineered altering the control gene so it and would be triggered to work as a defence mechanism if the body became HIV infected . |
| 3 | Then in his fifth year at the school , when he ought to have been aiming for his school certificate which was the next and essential passport for that golden educated future , he left abruptly to work as a haberdasher 's assistant in the local Co-operative store . |
| 4 | Instead I came to work as a layman at the diocesan office . ’ |
| 5 | The marriage ended because of her husband 's drink problem so June came back to Mud 's house at Neptune with her two children and went back to work as a dance instructor , at Arthur Murray 's highly popular dance centre in New York . |
| 6 | This , with other and routine business , took him half a morning , during which Inspector Lane was out of the office on other business and the two young sergeants were in and out all the time ; they seemed to work as a unit . |
| 7 | Off the field Sole also recently switched roles , resigning from his job with an Edinburgh wine merchant to work as a grain buyer for United Distillers . |
| 8 | The right person to work as a tutor was important and the right person would have to be both non-threatening and have experience in the technique . |
| 9 | ‘ As well as our involvement in the introduction of new machinery , we shall continue to work as a support team helping and advising wherever we can to the greater achievement of our colleagues responsible for TNT , quality assurance , work study , health and safety … indeed , any aspect of the Group 's business , ’ added Phil . |
| 10 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 11 | The wife used to work as a domestic at his house . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd like to work as a secretary on an island in Scotland . |
| 13 | To aid sales of his systems , he encouraged other software companies to develop applications programs ( which tell the computer how to work as a word processor , spreadsheet , database manager and the like ) for use with them . |
| 14 | A model car does n't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy ! |
| 15 | She did n't want a life of isolation stuck out here in a housing estate , only allowed to go out to work as a favour . |
| 16 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 17 | ‘ As a youngster he was sent out to Australia to work as a jackaroo on a sheep station . |
| 18 | He seeks to work as a ministry within the Vale and brings tremendous in erm to the ministry which he he will hopefully let the side . |
| 19 | He returned to London to run a picture agency and to work as a photojournalist . |
| 20 | She continued to work as a washerwoman until she was sixty-three , when she moved to Alton , Hampshire , to take care of a farmhouse . |
| 21 | In 1980 , the computer giant turned up on Mr Gates 's doorstep seeking an operating system ( the software that tells a computer 's electronic circuits how to work as a computer ) for its forthcoming personal computer . |
| 22 | There was a legend that Lord 's ancestors had suffered for their allegiance to the Jacobite cause and had had their lands sequestered , forcing William Lord to work as a labourer . |
| 23 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 24 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 25 | With the beginning of the 1947–8 season , John was transferred to the Sadler 's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden to give him more chances to work as a dancer with experienced choreographers . |
| 26 | Viewed together , they showed that by 1920 or so every single female in the United States would have to work as a switchboard operator . |
| 27 | Assignments should be devised to test both individual abilities and abilities to work as a member of a group ; in the latter case , when group assignments are submitted for moderation as part of the course assessment , moderators will require clear indication of how the contribution of individual students will be identified in the marking of the work . |
| 28 | THE heartbroken mother of transplant donor Paula Moss is leaving England to work as a missionary . |
| 29 | Gilbert was eight years younger than Gould , but the two must have met earlier , for by 1828 , at the age of 16 , Gilbert was recruited by Gould to work as a taxidermist at the Zoological Society . |
| 30 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |