Example sentences of "as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only an old man with his white hair cropped short and worn as a Jew 's cap had spoken to Holly with the wry grin of experience at his mouth . |
| 2 | Her stomach and oviduct do not have muscles which can contract and so expel her young as a mammal 's womb has . |
| 3 | As a speaker 's speech undergoes a process of accommodation to the norms of the new dialect , a new grammar is acquired through the addition to the speaker 's internal grammar of rules which " convert " the existing dialect forms into the new ones . |
| 4 | She broke off as a man 's voice called from the staircase : ‘ What 's all this dam ’ talking ? |
| 5 | Then every drop of blood drained from her face as a man 's hand reached past her . |
| 6 | AFTER four decades of nuclear build-up , the 1990s began as a disarmer 's dream come true . |
| 7 | Defined twenty years ago as a community 's ability to collaborate effectively in identifying problems and finding solutions , community competence has recently been associated with improved health outcomes ( Eng , 1989 ) . |
| 8 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 9 | After his marriage , William gave up his employment as a ship 's captain to manage his father-in-law 's estate and business affairs . |
| 10 | As a band 's career develops , by album two or three , most of the concert audience will own at least one of the band 's records and probably all of them . |
| 11 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 12 | The smell would catch its victims as a spider 's web ensnares a fly . |
| 13 | Blanche winced as a cameraman 's flash exploded in front of her . |