Example sentences of "[vb past] as a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Slack 's sense of fun effectively camouflages the dramas and dangers he endured as a pilot , as an escaper and ultimately as a POW . |
| 2 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 3 | Peterborough : Shelley revealed as a heartbreaker |
| 4 | erm If you were not so much an artist as a technician , you became as a technician interested in what this camera of yours could do , and therefore George Albert Smith , who was primarily I would say a technical man rather than an artist , he was very interested in the trick film . |
| 5 | The land revenue tax ( at first as much as a third of a peasant 's gross yearly produce ) had to be paid no matter how bad the harvest or how impoverished the family became as a result . |
| 6 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 7 | ‘ If it 's not his jokes , he is constantly relating how he fought as a moss trooper on the northern march . ’ |
| 8 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |
| 9 | Linked to an alleged coup attempt by Mao 's then heir-apparent Lin Biao in 1971 , Chen was arrested and reviled as a traitor . |
| 10 | In 1894 he lost his job and failed as a cobbler . |
| 11 | The PLO failed as a leadership , not as an idea . |
| 12 | He failed as a writer and as an actor but then discovered that the easily acquired skills of movie-making would enable him to become the artist and prophet for which his background had prepared him and for which Progressive America was so eagerly waiting . |
| 13 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 14 | Plenty of other good bands around the country have tried to grab at the coat-tails the Manchester scene and failed as a result . |
| 15 | It met as a kind of annual conference . |
| 16 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 17 | Last week we met as a team , working with and next week we will be meeting . |
| 18 | They met as a commission , under the chairmanship of the Swede Gustaf Aulén , to debate the first theme of the agenda , the Universal Church in God 's Design . |
| 19 | The rationalism of their educational project is contingent on the supposed irrationalism of the racist subject — often conceptualized as a collective , class subject . |
| 20 | I recognised the danger sign … a sort of snarl camouflaged as a smile . |
| 21 | ‘ Before I forget , ’ Selwyn announced as a plate of the roast beef of Old Idaho was placed in front of him . |
| 22 | Later , he registered as a PhD student at King 's College , London , studying philosophy and psychology under Professor Aveling . |
| 23 | Cathy registered as a childminder when she started to look after a friend 's young son . |
| 24 | The government recently spent £750,000 on publicity aimed at giving those living overseas a vote — 34,500 registered as a result , nearly £22 a vote . |
| 25 | It was immediately obvious that as the Cayman quarter mostly comprised aluminium , it registered as a foil on the meter of my Whites 5900 Di Pro SL . |
| 26 | He was not accepted into the department of meteorology but registered as a student in the department of mathematics , where he wrote a doctoral thesis on ‘ The Theory of Development in Dynamical Meteorology ’ . |
| 27 | The German Democratic Republic arose as a retaliation to the Western Allies ' decision to create a German Federal Republic in the Western occupation zone in May 1949 . |
| 28 | Of all the multiplicity of middle-class organizations which arose as a response to the dislocation of war and the perceived threat of socialism in Great Britain , the distinguishing feature of the Britons Society was its crude and obsessional anti-semitism . |
| 29 | Part of the Indo-Aryan family , Sanskrit arose as a North-West Indian dialect around 1,800 BC and was first standardised by Panini . |
| 30 | Cell walls perhaps arose as a device to keep useful chemicals together and stop them leaking away . |