Example sentences of "has [vb pp] as a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Language has developed as a sign system — one of the ways in which humans communicate and make sense of the world around them . |
| 2 | Using the EA to live , Smith has freelanced as a sports reporter , a music critic , and a fanzine publisher . |
| 3 | The participatory nature of the project has since been copied by other groups in different parts of the USA and many of the original participants have helped to encourage and train new people in other areas of their own states to find out more about ownership patterns in their home areas Highlander has responded to calls from other groups , and has acted as a clearing house for information and to make connections between interested parties . |
| 4 | The firm has acted as a clearing house for information on plantations , charcoal and gasifiers for years . |
| 5 | This examination of the range and extent of sex crime reporting shows both how pervasive sexual violence has become as a news item , and also how only a very small number of cases are selected as being ‘ newsworthy ’ . |
| 6 | With an established Green Party to articulate public anxiety , together with a national rallying point provided by the devastation of forests by acid rain — at least some of which is attributable to vehicle exhaust emission — it should not be surprising that transport has emerged as a ma–or cause of environmental concern in West Germany . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike . |
| 10 | She has worked as a freelance fabric designer in New York , specialising in the production of hand painted silks . |
| 11 | Paul , who lives at Washbrook Villas , Darlington , has worked as a security guard for 13 years . |
| 12 | Miss Bosworth , who has worked as a fashion model in a number of counties near her Grantham home , brings her hats to the Darlington area on Wednesday to stage a show in aid of Save the Children . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Maybe he was a tool for any strong hand , including that of Eadric Streona , who became ealdorman of Mercia in 1007 after what S.D. Keynes has described as a palace revolution . |
| 16 | MICHAEL Fallon yesterday denied accusations he has failed as a Government minister to provide decent schools in his constituency . |