Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] as [art] " 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 Walling may have one or two faces , so a one-face finish may not be suitable for using as the edge of a tread instead of a paving slab , but would be for use underneath the slab .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The next was to talk with a senior officer about applying as a future candidate for the ministry .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager .
13 After training as a navigator in SA , I travelled up to the Middle East to OTU in Palestine .
14 After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 . ] .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 Caren , who gave up her new-born twins for adoption , took Farrah from London after posing as a childminder .
25 Leng began today 's section with a 4.2 point advantage over her nearest rival , Germany 's Peter Thomsen on White Girl , after emerging as the only rider among 67 to get under the 40 points dressage mark .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 By 1808 there was a developed pattern of street violence and the ‘ people ’ of the barrios bajos — the poor southern quarter of Madrid — after functioning as the ‘ blind instruments ’ of an aristocratic fronde against Godoy were to become the heroes of the Second of May , when they rose against the French troops .
30 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 ) .
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