Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Popular Front described Mutalibov 's installation as a " coup " and called for widespread civil disobedience . |
| 2 | Those two responses are difficult to distinguish since one is Leapor 's response as a poet to a life which she observes ; the other pertains to her own experience of that life . |
| 3 | Up to then , Mr Wisdom 's income as a construction supervisor had been too small to buy a house for his family of five . |
| 4 | Tax is not deducted from National Insurance retirement pensions , but they are taken into account when deciding how much tax is to be paid on the elderly person 's income as a whole . |
| 5 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 6 | COPING AWARD : A local supermarket will give him a month 's trial as a shelf-filler . |
| 7 | If the offer is likely to be contested then the offeror will not be able to use the target 's board as a barometer to help it set the price . |
| 8 | Just as unease about China 's reliability as a production base has hurt Hong Kong manufacturers , anxiety over China 's stability has undermined foreign financial confidence . |
| 9 | Mr Maclean 's reliability as a bank manager can be judged from his admission that he was not very good at mathematics , hence the mistakes in calculating interest on Mr Singh 's alleged account . |
| 10 | Eventually these ideas coalesced into the belief that Germany 's rise as a new state and as an industrial power was being hampered by uncertainty over the unreliable national loyalties of the Slav peoples in the east , by the back-stabbing machinations of the Jews inside Germany , and by the threat of communism that came in both Slav and Jewish forms . |
| 11 | Pearson 's technique as a biographer derived from his career on the stage . |
| 12 | Screen Industries Officer for Lothian Region and Edinburgh District Councils , puts forward Edinburgh 's case as a film and TV location . |
| 13 | The early chapters are an indictment of the New Poor Law in their account of Oliver 's upbringing as a workhouse orphan , apprenticed to an undertaker by Bumble the beadle . |
| 14 | The Chancellor has evidently made it clear to Moscow that West Germany respects East Germany 's existence as a separate state , that it does not want to alter the present military set-up of Nato and the Warsaw Pact , and that although it aims to overcome the division of Europe , this does not also apply to the political division of Germany — at least for the foreseeable future . |
| 15 | 6 Griselda Pollock in Vision and difference draws attention to a conference paper by Nicole Dubreuil Blondin who ‘ addressed the antipathy between modernism and feminism and analysing Lucy Lippard 's trajectory as a critic ’ . |
| 16 | Some interpreted Pepsi 's decision as a prelude to a bid for Perrier 's soft drinks business , which analysts predicted might also attract offers from Coca-Cola , Suntory of Japan , or Guinness through its LVMH connection . |
| 17 | Many will see Mr De Klerk 's decision as a back-handed tribute to the independence of the judiciary . |
| 18 | As she feared , her mother took Miss Hatherby 's decision as a social slap in the face and blamed her daughter for wasting an opportunity . |
| 19 | The chief executive of Newcrest Mining , the joint-venture partner which had planned to mine the site , denounced Hawke 's decision as a dangerous precedent . |
| 20 | The Chinese Foreign Minister , Qian Qichen , described his government 's decision as a " major step in a process towards the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons " . |
| 21 | Mr Davis does regard the Department of the Environment 's decision as a step in the right direction . |
| 22 | Chris Greig , managing director of Invergordon Distillers and a member of the SWA 's taxation committee , described Mr Lamont 's decision as a ‘ bit of gentle relief ’ . |
| 23 | Becker 's expertise as a jazz pianist made possible his study of dance musicians ( Becker 1963 ) . |
| 24 | In themselves they 're historic , but it was Ponting 's expertise as a stills cameraman that has given the world a stunning pictorial account of a legendary expedition . |
| 25 | To supplement the natural barrier provided by the marshes themselves , ditches were constructed that could be flooded with giant pumps and even electrified , to create what was described by the Guardian 's correspondent as a ‘ giant moat ’ and by the Iraqi corps commander of the area as a ‘ fish trap ’ . |
| 26 | Finally , we asked you what , in your opinion , was the very practical way in which X 's inability as a pilot let him down ? |
| 27 | Asserting herself as a conceptual artist , considering all her work as creative , whether working with other people or developing ideas for further projects , jane nevertheless sees spending time on to her people 's creativity as a Catch-22 situation . |
| 28 | The stress and strain on muscles and joints is considerable , but why has she not sent the doctor 's certificate as a matter of courtesy to the tournament authorities ? |
| 29 | For example S. O. Letterman sees Claudia 's story as a vindication of the human spirit , to which , professionally anyway , he pays tribute . |
| 30 | The Trio Sonata , composed like the Concerto grosso in 1985 , emerges under Lev Markiz 's direction as a dark , intensely searching piece . |