Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [noun] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relative complexity of gastric crypt anatomy compared with colorectal mucosa has discouraged its use as an experimental model in proliferation research . |
| 2 | Often they take casual jobs , and William Gaminara has turned his experience as an out-of-work thesp into a sparky new play at the Hampstead Theatre . |
| 3 | On a less sombre note , Philip — Pat 's better half and General Factotum , has made his mark as an Archer — of the bow and arrow type — not the Radio soap opera . |
| 4 | She has offered her plight as an example of what is happening to many small producers . |
| 5 | The Dales authority has defended its plans as an extension to public subsidies to landowners for the preservation of the countryside . |
| 6 | Someone who has grabbed your wrist as an unfunny joke only deserves , if reason fails , a sharp slap round the face . |
| 7 | The Institute also received its first complaint about the way it has fulfilled its role as an RSB : this has been passed on to the Institute 's ombudsman Anthony Surtees for review . |
| 8 | For Maria , and perhaps even for Luke , the evening finally came to mean something when , having done his duty as an announcer , Florian Jones was called up on stage once more as the winner of the radio category in which he had been nominated . |
| 9 | I think you do have to do your homework as an actor . |
| 10 | Purley depôt was deemed to have completed its task as an annexe to Charlton Works by 29 November 1949 and was available to take the cars now housed at Thornton Heath . |
| 11 | The enlarged CSO , under its present director , Mr Jack Hibbert ( one of the few permanent secretaries in Whitehall to have started his career as an executive officer ) , will become a separate government department responsible to the chancellor of the exchequer . |
| 12 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 13 | For years , the lonely box had played its part as an essential signal post on the busy main line without anything untoward disturbing its peaceful operation . |
| 14 | Georg Mautner Markhof , 65 , a leading industrialist , had announced his resignation as an FPÖ vice-president on Feb. 27 . |
| 15 | A ministerial system , run by career bureaucrats , was the instrument of Charles III , who had served his apprenticeship as an enlightened ruler in Naples ; he did not destroy the great Councils but day-to-day business escaped them . |
| 16 | In 1913 this tendency was reinforced by the activities of James Larkin , a Liverpool born Irishman who had served his apprenticeship as an active trade unionist and full-time official with James Sexton 's National Union of Dock Labourers but who , resenting any control exercised from its Liverpool headquarters , had set up his own Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union in December 1908 . |
| 17 | The daughter Nora had left her post as an English teacher in a German school before Easter . |
| 18 | If for the Spanish right the Republic had confirmed its promise as an uncongenial regime , for sections of the left it had by mid-1933 failed to fulfil hopes of far-reaching and irreversible social reform . |
| 19 | The author , himself a captain of artillery in the Regiment of the Canton of Berne , did not , of course , fail to point out that Napoleon had begun his career as an artillery man , a fact which provided a point of departure for comment on the Emperor 's ideas in general . |
| 20 | So profound were the changes implicit in the statute that historians of all schools of thought have recognized its promulgation as an epoch-making event . |
| 21 | Paul Roberts ' recent London recitals and broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 have earned him recognition as an artist of perception and imagination . |
| 22 | We do n't want the problems on our own doorstep cos when the chips are down , we like to go home , and we like to feel safe and if somebody 's entered your premises as an intruder then all of a sudden your security been taken away . |