Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it rather rich for eating as a table cheese , but a few spoonfuls stirred into hot pasta is delicious . |
| 2 | In Italy it is often found flavoured with crystallised fruits for eating as a dessert cheese , or it can be used plain for cooking , but mainly for desserts . |
| 3 | They have a talent for using as a lever planks or anything else that comes to hand . |
| 4 | Neocolors are greasy and are therefore lively for creating textures of all sorts and for using as a water resist . |
| 5 | The reader of a description needs therefore to be careful about accepting as a description anything more than is actually visible on the canvas or in the sculpture . |
| 6 | Balanced against this view one might consider the limited liability offered through trading as a company so advantageous in the event of the business failing that a company is the preferred form of trading . |
| 7 | The next was to talk with a senior officer about applying as a future candidate for the ministry . |
| 8 | A Law graduate from Sydney University , Paul Windfield joined P&O Containers in Sydney as a graduate trainee after qualifying as a solicitor with the NSW Supreme Court . |
| 9 | After living as a vagrant for several more months and getting nowhere in his search for Katya , Grandfather Denknetzeyan decided to leave his beloved Russia . |
| 10 | After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager . |
| 11 | After training as a navigator in SA , I travelled up to the Middle East to OTU in Palestine . |
| 12 | After serving as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East and Paris , he took up a new job in Berlin on the very day in 1930 when the Reichstag election heralded unprecedented barbarism in Europe . |
| 13 | After serving as a representative of the British Canoe Union on the Central Council of Physical Recreation , the largest federation of sport and recreation in the world , in 19877 he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee . |
| 14 | Couvelaire started his business 25 years ago with a Cessna 182 and a Comanche after serving as a pilot in the French Air Force during the Algerian war . |
| 15 | After serving as a commissioner of trade between 1668 and 1669 , he was appointed assistant secretary of the council of foreign plantations in 1670 , and in September 1672 he was promoted to the post of secretary and treasurer of the council of trade and foreign plantations , under the presidency of his patron , Anthony Ashley Cooper , first Earl of Shaftesbury [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | In 1885 Frederick Cranko ( who , after starting as a sailor , worked as a tailor , an engraver and a clerk ) joined the gold rush to Pretoria and thence to Johannesburg , a thousand miles from Cape Town . |
| 17 | We come closer to contemporary retirement with the second Roberts grandfather , a man who had been much less successful at work , and after failing as a shopkeeper had nearly failed as a farmer until his son took over . |
| 18 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 19 | Caren , who gave up her new-born twins for adoption , took Farrah from London after posing as a childminder . |
| 20 | Skin disinfection should , therefore , be avoided unless absolutely necessary invariably confined to high volume , high risk production with the disinfectant being applied after washing as a separate process before starting work . |
| 21 | Rumour had it that it was he who brought it to the attention of Chamberlain , who became President of the Board of Trade at the same time as Plimsoll left the House , that numbers of lives lost at sea , after falling as a result of the Load Line Act , were now again on the increase . |
| 22 | Holder , despite rave reports from Pakistan after standing as a neutral umpire in the series against India , has n't umpired another England Test since . |
| 23 | After working as a journalist on local press in her native USA , Dr Hess then spent time in the Philippines working as a missionary for the United Methodist Church ( UMC ) . |
| 24 | After working as a structural engineering designer he was a draughtsman with aircraft firms before becoming a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in civil engineering and aeronautics ( 1922–39 ) . |
| 25 | NATALIE HUNTER , 27 , has been unemployed since December after working as a graphic designer for four years . |
| 26 | Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group . |
| 27 | ‘ Active citizenship ’ , according to the Conservative view , should include taking responsibility in the community through activities such as serving as a school governor or a magistrate , running Neighbourhood Watch schemes , and doing voluntary work of various sorts . |
| 28 | Modi , too , tried to join the Foreign Legion , felt it was the ‘ price ’ to pay for living as a foreigner in France , and justified his inconsistency by saying : ‘ I 'm so much a revolutionary that I 'm even willing to be a soldier and revolt against my own anti-militarist beliefs . |
| 29 | In these and all other analyses , we have excluded all species whose long tails may have mechanical functions other than flight ( such as acting as a brace when climbing ) . |
| 30 | ‘ My brother said nothing to me about acting as a romantic go-between . |