Example sentences of "as a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vignettes drawn ad vivum depict the lives of the inhabitants of the distant regions , such as a raja 's procession in Sumatra , and a Tupinambá village in Brazil . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Lalage , neat as a Nannie 's child in her blue Viyella dressing-gown , had darted off to the bathroom , Nicandra , for the present absolved from her duties as friend and hostess , wound up her gramophone and , as she undressed , surged and swooned pleasantly to the heart-breaking cadences of the Caprice Viennois . |
| 4 | Orange juice is to be pitched as a sportsman 's drink in a new marketing strategy to be adopted by the Florida Citrus Commission . |
| 5 | I want to reinterpret the metaphor of the fifties , of childhood as a community 's investment in the future , and find its material base in the individual circumstances that help interpret historical developments . |
| 6 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 7 | In an age when the sea was even more of a man 's world than at present , and when women 's work outside the home was generally menial , Betsy Miller was the first woman to be recorded as a ship 's captain in the British Register of Tonnage at Lloyds . |
| 8 | Her mother was willing to look after the baby , so she got a fulltime job as a teacher 's assistant in a mental home . |
| 9 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |