Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] as an " in BNC.
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| 1 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 2 | After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years . |
| 3 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 4 | He had a love of cars at a very early age and after serving as an engineer in the Royal Australian Air Force during the war , he started racing midget cars in his home country , winning the Australian Midget Car Championship in the five year between 1947–51 . |
| 5 | She joined the Alresford Surgery ( where she is the most experienced of the team ) , after working as an occupational nurse with Bass at Alton . |
| 6 | In addition Andrew Burt has returned to the team after working as an Education Officer in Hanover House . |
| 7 | This means that the aesthetic exploitation of language takes the form of surprising a reader into a fresh awareness of and sensitivity to , the linguistic medium which is normally taken for granted as an " automatized " background of communication . |
| 8 | With the reduction of the general level of infant mortality , the difference between the two under 20 and over 40 years maternal age groups increased , so that , recently the risk of dying as an infant became for those born to the oldest maternal age group higher relative to that for infants of mothers in the youngest maternal age groups . |
| 9 | To the Sumerian , Egyptian and Mycenaean peoples lapis lazuli had the added attraction of appearing as an exotic substance . |
| 10 | It is with interest , that I read Amanda Archibald 's recently published notes of her thoughts as a U.K. citizen , now living and working in the U.S.A. By all accounts , she has been profoundly impressed , and she has done a good job in introducing ‘ Contact ’ readers to some of the many positive aspects of living as an expatriate in the U.S.A. As a person proud to enjoy dual nationality of Canada and England , however , I should like to redress the balance somewhat , and question some of Amanda 's blanket statements . |
| 11 | While the Royal Commission has never been accused of acting as an arm of government , its inquiries are not conducted with the same open-eyed approach to political manipulation as are those of the Select Committees of the House of Lords or House of Commons . |
| 12 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 13 | However , the evidence from Pittsburgh indicates that the community group , instead of acting as an oppositional force , has been brought more emphatically within the institutional orbit , both through the mechanisms for consultation and as it becomes formally integrated into local policy making . |
| 14 | Camilla 's days of acting as an unofficial hostess at Highgrove parties , while Diana was in Kensington , had come to an end , she was told . |
| 15 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 16 | Out of the Frying Pan , a modern tale based on the Aladdin story , also saw the return of Frank Finlay and included Alan Howard , learning the ropes of acting as an assistant stage manager before later acclaim as a Royal Shakespeare Company member . |
| 17 | The coincidence between let and the infinitive is slightly obscured here by the use of let as an imperative . |
| 18 | The use of let as an imperative implies that the speaker feels that the mere impinging of his will upon that of the other people involved in the situation will be enough to get the infinitive action accomplished . |
| 19 | Not only does this entail our recognising the specific demands of writing as an activity , but also the varying purposes of writing , and the need for a whole school policy towards it . |
| 20 | The caravan interests , on the other hand , argued the case for recognition of caravanning as an acceptable way of life and pressed for more positive approaches by the local authorities . |
| 21 | It 's also wise to be aware of the differences of buying as an individual and buying as a business . |
| 22 | The deal , believed to be unique in Britain , will give 24year-old Chris , pictured , the chance of staying as an amateur until the next Olympics , or until professional cyclists are allowed to compete in the games . |
| 23 | An extreme example of such extension can be found in the description of teaching as an act of violence . |
| 24 | You should pay particular attention to the dual needs of Tack as an owner and as a manager . |
| 25 | A third view of what he wanted came from the same head telling himself that he wanted pupils in his school to have a vision of learning as an embodiment of self-improvement . |
| 26 | The predominant characteristic adopted by the Germans from Italian patterns was the conception of arcading as an all-over pattern , especially on the apses . |
| 27 | The bitterness created by these disputes and the importance of housing as an issue not only in Derry but in the United Kingdom as a whole in this period helps to explain the choice of this issue as a focus for agitation by the radical leftists of the DHAC . |
| 28 | There are many people who are scared of thinking as an activity . |
| 29 | After nearly eight years of working as an editor of the NI , I have facts embedded in my brain and figures coming out of my ears . |
| 30 | For BSL interpreters there is often the added complication of role conflict between their social work/educational job and their impartial relay of meaning as an interpreter . |